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Open Education Resources (Oer), Michele Gibney

Michele Gibney

Data Management Planning: Two Very Important Pages, Michele Gibney

Michele Gibney

The Sky’S The Limit: Scholarly Communication, Digital Initiatives, Institutional Repositories, And Subject Librarians

Barbara Tierney

Grow Your Own Scholarly Communication Program, Barbara Tierney, Lee Dotson, Sarah Norris, Ven Basco, John Venecek

Barbara Tierney

It Takes A Library: Growing A Robust Institutional Repository In Two Years, Todd Bruns, Stacey Knight-Davis

Todd A. Bruns

No abstract provided.

Creative Commons, Molly Higgins

Molly Higgins

No abstract provided.

Best Practices For Undergraduate Research, Susan Cole, Martin Kelly, Betty Rozum, Becky Thoms

Martin F Kelly III (Marty Kelly)

Undergraduate research initiatives are cropping up at institutions across the country, highlighting the need for undergraduate publication venues. Colleges and universities are finding that publishing undergraduate work not only completes the research cycle for emerging scholars; it also showcases the quality of an institution’s student work to prospective students and their parents, as well as to prospective faculty members.

At Colby College, Suzi Cole, Scholarly Resources & Services, Sciences Librarian, and Martin Kelly, Assistant Director for Digital Collections, collaborate with the Environmental Studies program to publish the Colby Environmental Assessment Team’s projects in Digital Commons @ Colby, in addition to …

Digital Commons @ Colby: Best Practices For Undergraduate Research, Susan Cole, Martin Kelly

Martin F Kelly III (Marty Kelly)

Colby College's contribution to the bepress sponsored webinar. From bepress' description:

Undergraduate research initiatives are cropping up at institutions across the country, highlighting the need for undergraduate publication venues. Colleges and universities are finding that publishing undergraduate work not only completes the research cycle for emerging scholars; it also showcases the quality of an institution’s student work to prospective students and their parents, as well as to prospective faculty members.

At Colby College, Suzi Cole, Scholarly Resources & Services, Sciences Librarian, and Martin Kelly, Assistant Director for Digital Collections, collaborate with the Environmental Studies program to publish the Colby Environmental …

Altmetrics, Betty Landesman

Betty Landesman

PowerPoint deck from presentation at the University of Baltimore's College of Arts and Sciences Scholarship Day, March 24, 2015.

Designing Job Descriptions For New Roles: Integrating Scholarly Communication And Information Literacy In Liaison Job Descriptions, Teresa Fishel, Julie Garrison, Philip Herold

Teresa A. Fishel

New roles for librarians, means new job descriptions. We will share the experiences of three institutions who have developed new job descriptions that incorporate responsibilities for integrating scholarly communication and information literacy. Librarians from three institutions that vary in size and type will report on how they have developed job descriptions and expectations for librarians in these areas and provide insights on issues for participants to consider before incorporating these changes in your own libraries. Learn about successful techniques as well as challenges faced when integrating these roles into responsibilities for academic librarians. Examples of job descriptions along with related …

Faculty Perceptions Of Open Access Author Fees, Anne E. Rauh

Anne Rauh

In fall 2013, librarians at Syracuse University and Cornell University surveyed STEM faculty to learn about their experiences with, and perceptions of, open access publishing and the author fees that may accompany that model. The results showed little experience with open access author fees but strong opinions about the open access model. This poster will highlight the cautious optimism found in the results along with suggestions for librarians to further faculty understanding of and participation in open access publishing.

Scholarly Communication Coaching: Liaison Librarians' Shifting Roles, Todd Bruns, Steve Brantley, Kirstin Duffin

Steve Brantley

Two and a half decades into the open access (OA) movement, rapid changes in scholarly communication are creating significant demands on scholars. Today’s scholars must wrestle with meeting funder mandates for providing public access to their research, managing and preserving raw data, establishing/publishing open access journals, understanding the difference between “green OA” and “gold OA,” navigating the complicated issues around copyright and intellectual property, avoiding potentially predatory publishers, adapting their tenure plans to OA, and discovering increasing amounts of OA resources for their research and their curricular materials. These demands present an opportunity and a need for librarians to step …

Adventist Librarianship: Worth Writing About [Poster], Terry Dwain Robertson, Lauren Matacio

Terry Dwain Robertson

A Festschrift style publication would provide a venue for SDA Librarians to publish research and develop a body of professional literature that addresses the needs of SDA libraries and librarians. It is proposed because it does not involve specific time dead- lines and allows for short-term commitments for editorial leadership. It is also an accepted method of acknowledging and recognizing esteemed colleagues.

Growing Ink: The Curious Case Of The Institutional Repository At Smu, Pin Pin Yeo

YEO Pin Pin

InK, the institutional repository of the Singapore Management University (SMU) was officially launched in January 2011 with 8,000 metadata records for SMU research publications, only 700 of which was full text. The Library uses a variety of strategies to increase the number of full text papers and to raise awareness about Open Access amongst the faculty. SMU’s Open Access policy was approved by the University’s Research Council and promulgated by the Vice-Provost, Research to the community a year ago. The Library pulls the data from the University’s Research Publications System, an in-house platform, to capture faculty publications. This ensures that …

Presenting And Preserving Your Scholarship With Digital Commons @ Spu, Kristen Hoffman, Michael Paulus Jr.

Kristen Hoffman

Learn about self-archiving is and what benefits it offers, see an overview of the Digital Commons @ SPU (http://digitalcommons.spu.edu) system, and learn how to contribute your scholarship.

Publishing Student Journals: Integrating Into The Undergraduate Curriculum, Teresa A. Fishel

Teresa A. Fishel

An undergraduate course in American Studies at Macalester College has been developed and taught in collaboration with a faculty member to produce and publish an open-access student peer-reviewed journal. A discussion of the development of the course, “Engaging the Public: Writing and Publishing in American Studies”, the course content, the integration of scholarly communication and information fluency concepts into the course, as well as student learning outcomes, and integration into existing library workflows are presented. In addition to introducing students to the process of producing a scholarly journal, students are involved in all processes including marketing, soliciting submissions, conducting blind …

"Predatory" Publishers And How To Avoid Them, Betty Landesman

Betty Landesman

No abstract provided.

Western Libraries: International Reach With Scholarship@Western, Western's Institutional Repository : Mapping Downloads: Two Hours In 35 Seconds, Joanne Paterson

Joanne Paterson

Western Libraries' open access institutional repository, Scholarship@Western, disseminates research produced at the University throughout the world. This sped up map, recorded one Sunday morning, illustrates in real time, the global impact of Western's scholarly publications.

Report Of The Alcts Scholarly Communications Interest Group Meeting, American Library Association Midwinter Meeting, Philadelphia, January 2014, Doug Way

Doug Way

No abstract provided.

Big Data, Little Data, No Data: The Contested Landscape Of Data Sharing And Reuse, Christine L. Borgman

Christine L. Borgman

Scholars are being asked — by funding agencies and publishers alike — to release their data along with each publication, as though journal articles were merely containers of data. Data are amorphous and dynamic entities, best understood as evidence in support of an argument. The enthusiasm for “big data” obscures the complexity and diversity of data and of data practices across the disciplines. While open scholarship has been the norm for several centuries, open access to data is a profound shift in scholarly practice. This talk is based on a forthcoming book from MIT Press, “Big Data, Little Data, No …

Why You Should Care About Open Data: Open Access Week Thoughts On Why Research Data Rarely Are Reused, Christine L. Borgman

Christine L. Borgman

Scholarly knowledge-sharing includes sharing research data, but while the supply of data is growing rapidly, demand exists in only a few research communities. This appears to be caused by factors related to trust, application, and practices. When collecting one’s own data, a researcher knows its origins, transformations, analyses, assumptions, strengths, limitations, access conditions, and likely longevity, but researchers may not have that information about data acquired from other parties. Librarians, archivists, and data scientists assist scholars with managing, curating, and disseminating their data, recommending practices with reuse in mind whenever possible. This lecture is by Christine L. Borgman, professor and …

Digital Scholarship And Digital Libraries: Past, Present, And Future, Christine Borgman

Christine L. Borgman

In a few short decades, the practices of scholarship have been transformed by the use of digital resources, tools, and services. Some shifts are obvious, such as seeking, reading, and publishing research online, often to the exclusion of print. Other shifts are subtle, such as data being viewed as research products to be disseminated. Research objects are more atomized, yet aggregated in new ways. Digital technologies offer opportunities to innovate in scholarly practice, collaboration, and communication. Innovation in digital libraries is necessary to advance digital scholarship. The talk will present a set of challenges for 21st century research and practice …

Why Are Scientific Data Rarely Reused? (Keynote), Christine L. Borgman

Christine L. Borgman

Knowledge sharing in science includes sharing research data. While the supply of scientific data is growing rapidly, demand exists in only a few research communities. The mismatch is not simply a matter of price point or of the efficiency of markets. Rather, it appears to be due to matters of trust, application, and practices. When collecting one’s own data, a researcher knows the origins, transformations, analyses, assumptions, strengths, and limitations of those data. Also known are the conditions of access to those data and their likely longevity. None of these factors may be known about data acquired from other parties. …

The Changing Face Of Scholarly Communication: University Libraries And Presses Transform The Book, Richard W. Clement, Cheryl D. Walters, Andrew Wesolek, M Spooner

Richard W. Clement

The rise of electronic publication is irrevocably altering the landscape of scholarly communication. Discussions of electronic modes of publication typically focus on new business models, open access, OAI protocols, and retaining the authority of the peer review process in a world increasingly relying on crowdsourcing. This presentation focuses on a less-discussed but very fundamental aspect of the epub revolution in scholarly communication: the evolution of codex-based monographs, and articles to the next form. We survey how university libraries and presses are pushing the boundaries of traditional scholarly monographs and articles, giving us a sneak preview, perhaps, of what scholarly communication …

Getting Ink In The Workflow, Building Full Text And Engaging Faculty, Pin Pin Yeo

YEO Pin Pin

After setting up InK, the institutional repository at Singapore Management University, we continue to update InK by pulling data from the SMU Research Publication System. We next focussed on getting the full text into InK. We will share the different approaches we tried and the different engagement we had with faculty.

You're Starting A What?: Talking To Faculty, Staff, And Students About Digital Commons @ Spu, Kristen Hoffman

Kristen Hoffman

"Problems Of Attribution" Attribution: Managing Provenance, Ethics, And Metrics, Christine Borgman

Christine L. Borgman

While it seems that digitized scholarship should lead the way to better discoverability and attribution, the age-old problems still plague us: confusion about names, siloed data, lack of or difficult communication between organizations. This meeting, hosted jointly by Dryad and ORCID, provides a venue to discuss these issues and learn about the initiatives underway to to address them, including social aspects of attribution, the persistent identifiers for researchers and their work, and development of interoperable methods for storing and calling data.

"Problems of Attribution" Slides: Data attribution and citation; CODATA and developing data attribution and citation practices and standards; Driving …

Library-Led Open Education Resources Initiatives: Strategies For Engaging Faculty, Sarah Beaubien

Sarah Beaubien

Open education resources (OER) are freely available materials for educators and learners. The open education movement is quickly expanding to include free textbooks, open courseware, and new models of delivering educational content. With expertise in the areas of open access, copyright, and institutional repositories, Librarians are well-suited to lead open education initiatives. This session discusses strategies for implementing open education initiatives, showcasing and preserving open education materials, and building partnerships to sustain this movement.

That's My Bailiwick: A Library-Sponsored Faculty Research Web Server, Paul A. Soderdahl, Carol Ann Hughes

Paul A Soderdahl

The University of Iowa Libraries provide a unique, new, scholarly publishing outlet for their faculty and graduate students. With the prevalence of personal faculty home pages and course Web sites in just about every department on campus, it's not very hard for faculty to find a Web server somewhere for storing an HTML file. And, with some work, faculty can often find some "techie" to help convert a document to HTML or to save a list of links. What is rare, however, is a space on the Web where faculty from all disciplines can find a home for their scholarly …

Creating Academic Web Space For Faculty: Research And Teaching Initiatives At The University Of Iowa Libraries, Carol Ann Hughes, Paul A. Soderdahl, Karen Zimmerman

Paul A Soderdahl

The University of Iowa has several projects that are reshaping options for teaching staff and librarians as they work to build new types of academic resources. Two of these are Bailiwick and TWIST. Bailiwick is a web space where academic passions are realised in HTML and creative home pages. Bailliwick is home to Web sites that are experimental in form, like Border crossings, which provides comprehensive and in-depth resources, or that take on a narrow, highly specialised topic like French Feminists. In the Teaching with Innovative Style and Technology Project (TWIST), teaching staff are paired with librarians partners to create …