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Open Education Resources At Umass Amherst, Marilyn S. Billings

Marilyn S. Billings

This presentation was the third part of a panel discussion entitled Open Textbook Models: View from the Library.

Generalizing The Subject Repository, Rebecca C. Reznik-Zellen, Jessica Adamick

Rebecca C. Reznik-Zellen

Subject repositories serve a similar function within their disciplines, but they often evolve in radically different ways from inside their respective fields. When the largest subject repositories such as PubMed Central, CiteSeerX, arXiv, RePEc, SSRN, and AgEcon Search are examined, there are more differences than similarities in terms of sustainability models, software, users, and management. These repositories have developed in relative isolation, all catering to specific disciplinary cultures.While the success of these repositories should be celebrated, there is a great need to develop general best practices and standards for the building and management of subject repositories. According to OpenDOAR, there …

Ethics In Science And Engineering: Redefining Tools And Resources, Goncalves Michelle, Jane E. Fountain, Adamick Jessica, Billings Marilyn

Jane E. Fountain

The leaders of the ESENCe beta site project organized

a national workshop, “Ethics in Science and Engineering:

Redefining Tools and Resources,” that was held on

October 22-23, 2009 at UMass Amherst. The workshop

objectives, broadly speaking, were twofold: first, to

explore the potential for leveraging the university’s role

as a locus of education and mentoring for ethics and

RCR in science and engineering and, second, to explore

the potential and limitations of digital tools, including

social media, for supporting such growth. The workshop

initiated a dialogue between university faculty involved in

ethics research and education and library and information

scientists. …

Interactive Taxonomy For Content Exploration And Discovery [Poster], Rebecca C. Reznik-Zellen, Bob Stevens

Rebecca C. Reznik-Zellen

Interactive taxonomic functionality enables visitors to explore relationships between concepts and access content within the nanomanufacturing domain. InterNano is an information portal and subject repository for nanomanufacturing hosted by the National Nanomanufacturing Network at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, which combines a dynamic open source content management system (Joomla!) for managing original content with the reliable EPrints repository software system for managing archived publications, educational material, and workshop presentations. Because nanomanufacturing is a small, interdisciplinary subdomain of nanotechnology, an important component of the project is a specialized taxonomy for domain definition and information discovery. The InterNano Taxonomy is a unique, …

Sunflower Seeds And Their Products, Madeleine K. Charney

Madeleine K. Charney

Sunflower as a commodity for both food and seed.