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Maximizing Your Faculty's Scholarly Impact: Techniques To Increase Findability, Caroline L. Osborne, Carol A. Watson, Thomas J. Striepe

Caroline L. Osborne

Disruptive But Not Disreputable: Discussing Open Access, Michele Gibney

Michele Gibney

Hip-Hop Librarianship For Scholarly Communication: An Approach To Introducing Topics, Arthur J. Boston

Arthur J. Boston

Open Access Institutional Repository: Maximizing Future Returns On Investment, Larry R. Sheret, Jingping Zhang

Jingping Zhang

Viva La Revolution: Promoting Institutional Repositories Through Collaboration, Marian Taliaferro, Kristy M. Borda, Natasha Mcfarland

Marian Taliaferro

Failure To Reproduce: The Replication Crisis In Research — Can Librarians Help?, Andrée J. Rathemacher, Amanda Izenstark, Harrison Dekker

Amanda Izenstark

Slides from a presentation, "Failure to Reproduce: The Replication Crisis in Research — Can Librarians Help?," presented at the 2018 ACRL New England Chapter Annual Conference, Failing Forward: Experimentation and Creativity in Libraries, on May 4, 2018 in Plymouth, Massachusetts.

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A recent survey by Nature found that more than 70% of researchers have tried and failed to reproduce another scientist’s experiments and more than half have failed to reproduce their own experiments! Learn more about the “reproducibility crisis” in research and how librarians are helping by teaching researchers about reproducible workflows, proper management of code and data, …

Avoiding Predatory Publishers, Rebecca Reznik-Zellen, Lisa A. Palmer

Lisa A. Palmer

Blog post to AEA365, a blog sponsored by the American Evaluation Association (AEA) dedicated to highlighting Hot Tips, Cool Tricks, Rad Resources, and Lessons Learned for evaluators. The American Evaluation Association is an international professional association of evaluators devoted to the application and exploration of program evaluation, personnel evaluation, technology, and many other forms of evaluation. Evaluation involves assessing the strengths and weaknesses of programs, policies, personnel, products, and organizations to improve their effectiveness.

Elsevier, Bepress, And A Glimpse At The Future Of Scholarly Communication, Cris Ferguson

Cris Ferguson

New Tool In Town: Identifying The Good, The Bad, And The Predatory Oa Journal, Nataly Blas

Nataly Blas

The Research Needs And Practices Of Asian Studies Scholars At Trinity University: A Report For Ithaka S+R, Michael Hughes

Michael J. Hughes

This report describes the research needs and practices of nine Asian Studies scholars at Trinity University, a private liberal arts college in San Antonio, Texas. Part of a nationwide study coordinated by Ithaka S+R, the report describes scholars’ 1 methods, information needs, and publication practices in order to better align and deliver research support from academic departments, librarians, university administrators, and other stakeholders. The report culminates in predictions on the future of the field, and offers several recommendations to help scholars achieve the future they envision for Asian Studies.

Redefining Open Access For The Legal Information Market, James G. Milles

James G. Milles

The open access movement in legal scholarship, inasmuch as it is driven within the law library community over concerns about the rising cost of legal information, fails to address - and in fact diverts resources from - the real problem facing law libraries today: the soaring costs of nonscholarly, commercially published, practitioner-oriented legal publications. The current system of legal scholarly publishing - in student-edited journals and without meaningful peer review - does not face the pressures to increase prices common in the science and health disciplines. One solution to this problem is for law schools to redirect some of their …

Credible Journal Working Group In Action!: Collaborating To Create Positive Change In Scholarly Publishing, Shilpa Rele, Nataly Blas, Marie Kennedy

Nataly Blas

Scholarly communication issues, such as access, research, and the promotion of scholarly communities are at the core of university libraries’ values. This session will demonstrate how to put the values of librarianship into practice at your institution by addressing the publishing needs of your faculty. At Loyola Marymount University, a medium-size, private institution, three librarians were tasked to assist faculty in the publishing process, in particular, help faculty choose credible and reliable journals in which to publish. This session will outline difficulties encountered with publishing by faculty, the case for the library’s involvement, and techniques to promote scholarly publishing. By …

Journal Evaluation Tool, Shilpa Rele, Marie Kennedy, Nataly Blas

Nataly Blas

The changing mechanisms of scholarly publishing may make it difficult for you to determine where to publish the results of your research or creative works. In order to assist you in making the best decisions for your work, and to avoid journals that may not be credible, the William H. Hannon Library has developed a rubric for the evaluation of journals. Our focus during the development of this tool was specifically to address the concerns of our Loyola Marymount University faculty about Open Access journals, but this rubric may be applied more broadly to any kind of journal.

Coming Soon To Acrl | Nec: A New Open Access Repository For Conference Proceedings And Other Materials, Lisa A. Palmer, Karin Heffernan, Laura Wilson, Alan Witt

Lisa A. Palmer

This poster describes a new open access repository being developed to store and disseminate digital materials arising from ACRL | NEC conferences and SIG events. Come learn more about the repository and how your ACRL | NEC group can participate.

Researchgate Vs. The Institutional Repository: Competition Or Complement?, Julia Lovett, Andrée Rathemacher

Julia Lovett

Slides with speakers' notes from a presentation at the 2017 Digital Commons New England User Group Meeting, which took place on July 28, 2017 at the Albert Sherman Center, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA.

Additional files include slides without speakers' notes, speakers' notes, program proposal, and meeting schedule.

Also posted at: http://escholarship.umassmed.edu/neirug/2017/program/13/.

Researchgate, Copyright, And You, Andrée Rathemacher, Julia Lovett, Amanda Izenstark

Julia Lovett

Slides from a presentation, "ResearchGate, Copyright, and You," offered at the University of Rhode Island Libraries on November 4 and November 15, 2016. "ResearchGate, Academia.edu, and other websites make it easy to share your scholarly content, but is sharing on these sites safe to do? Learn about the implications of posting your research online, and find out how you can do so to have the most impact." Part of the University Libraries' Search Savvy Seminar series.

A Comparison Of Research Sharing Tools: The Institutional Repository Vs. Academic Social Networking Among University Of Rhode Island Faculty, Julia Lovett, Andrée Rathemacher

Julia Lovett

Slides from a session, "A Comparison of Research Sharing Tools: The Institutional Repository vs. Academic Social Networking Among University of Rhode Island Faculty." Part of a project briefing session titled Tools for Modern Research Practice presented at the Coalition for Networked Information Fall 2016 Membership Meeting on December 12, 2016 in Washington, District of Columbia.

"In recent years, academic social networking sites such as ResearchGate and Academia.edu have been gaining popularity as a way for scholars to share their work and make connections. For universities with Open Access policies where faculty are expected to deposit their scholarly articles in the …

Open Access And Closed Minds? Collaborating Across Campus To Help Faculty Understand Changing Scholarly Communication Models, Elizabeth Price, Leslie Engelson, Candace K. Vance, Rebecca Richardson, Jeffrey Henry

Leslie Engelson

This chapter highlights the efforts of a team of librarians at Murray State University to help the university faculty members understand the Open Access publishing environment.

The Cupola Infographic (2017), Janelle Wertzberger

Janelle Wertzberger

This infographic displays key facts and figures about Gettysburg College's institutional repository, The Cupola: Scholarship at Gettysburg College, as of July, 2017.

Opening Access, Increasing Impact: Irs Are Ideal For Smaller Institutions!, Janelle L. Wertzberger

Janelle Wertzberger

What do smaller academic institutions need to know about institutional repositories and open access? Student and faculty authors enjoy many benefits from making their work open, and the hosting institution receives international visibility. A repository can be a DIY publishing platform. Learn how Gettysburg College got started and hear about the wide range of materials that are being shared. Gettysburg’s repository, The Cupola, currently includes over 5,000 works that have been downloaded 420,000 times... and counting.

Open Access And Closed Minds? Collaborating Across Campus To Help Faculty Understand Changing Scholarly Communication Models, Elizabeth Price, Leslie Engelson, Candace K. Vance, Rebecca Richardson, Jeffrey Henry

Candace K. Vance

This chapter highlights the efforts of a team of librarians at Murray State University to help the university faculty members understand the Open Access publishing environment.

Navigating The Political Waters Of Open Access Publishing In Libraries, Carol Ann Borchert, Charlene N. Simser, Wendy C. Robertson

Wendy C Robertson

In recent years, many libraries have forayed into the world of open access (OA) publishing. While it marks a major shift in the mission of libraries to move from providing access to content to generating and creating content ourselves, it still involves the same basic values regarding access to information. The environment has changed, and libraries are adapting with new approaches and new staff skills to promote these fundamental values. The authors selected nineteen libraries and conducted phone interviews with a specific list of questions, encouraging discussion about how each library approached being a publisher. This chapter examines the politics …

Open Access And Closed Minds? Collaborating Across Campus To Help Faculty Understand Changing Scholarly Communication Models, Elizabeth Price, Leslie Engelson, Candace K. Vance, Rebecca Richardson, Jeffrey Henry

Jeffrey Henry

This chapter highlights the efforts of a team of librarians at Murray State University to help the university faculty members understand the Open Access publishing environment.

Little Ir On The Open Prairie: The First Year Of The South Dakota State University Institutional Repository, Michael Biondo

Michael Biondo

Over the last decade institutional repositories (IR) have become an integral part of the academic library environment across the United States and the globe. In 2015 the Hilton M. Briggs Library at South Dakota State University (SDSU) became the first South Dakota university or college to launch an IR. Open PRAIRIE (Public Research Access Institutional Repository and Information Exchange) began operations on September 25. 2015. In it’s first year, Open PRAIRIE has developed a collection of nearly 9,000 items representing a campus cross-section of scholarly output including: faculty articles, ETDs (Electronic Theses and Dissertations), undergraduate student research, and historical materials …

How Automated Workflows Helped Us Ingest 600 Faculty Publications In Three Months In Lmu’S Institutional Repository!, Shilpa Rele, Jessea Young

Jessea Young

Conducting copyright clearance and ingesting appropriate versions of faculty publications can be a labor intensive and time consuming process. At Loyola Marymount University (LMU), a medium-size, private institution, the Digital Library Program (DLP) had been conducting copyright clearance one publication at a time. This meant that it took an enormous amount of time from start to finish to review and process the list of publications on a given faculty member’s CV. In October 2016, the Digital Program Librarian learned about the automated workflow developed by librarians at University of North Texas and decided to give it a try. At this …

Albertsons Library Data Management Strategic Agenda, Margie Ruppel, Megan Davis, Michelle Armstrong, Amber Sherman

Amber Sherman

Albertsons Library Data Management Strategic Agenda outlines areas of emphasis and specific activities that the library will engage in over the next two years (January 2015 - December 2016) in support of its data management services initiative. These activities will help define an evolving framework where the library serves as an active partner throughout the scholarly and research lifecycle. The foundation for this framework is a commitment to collaboration, open information sharing and discovery, and a focus on providing point of need services.

Movements Toward An Open Research Culture, Sfaa Presentation, Anne Larrivee

Anne Larrivee

As scholars begin their tenure-track position, so too begins the expectation that they will publish within all the traditional channels. However, many of these publication channels often restrict access to who will read and learn from these works. The academic culture has traditionally focused on where scholars should publish, and less frequently on how to make these works open and public. Open access publishers and institutional repositories are influencing academic culture, but there are still many reservations, anxieties, and lack of awareness. Marcel Mauss (1990) is well known for his gift theory, human exchange is expected to be reciprocal. The …

Transcending Institutions And Borders: 21st Century Digital Scholarship At K-State, Rebel Cummings-Sauls, Rachel Miles, Ryan Otto, Charlene N. Simser

Rebel Cummings-Sauls

Digital scholarship of the 21st century transcends institutions and borders with its freedom from print and physical locations. This case study reviews aspects of establishing a sustainable digital scholarship center, supporting open access through the institutional repository (K-State Research Exchange - K-REx) and an open access publishing platform (New Prairie Press – NPP) along with other outreach efforts. The Center for the Advancement of Digital Scholarship (CADS) at K-State Libraries serves our campus community, but digital scholarship extends K-State's impact far beyond Manhattan, Kansas. Highlighting the scholarship at our campus is only one small piece of the landscape. Collaboration on …

Promoting Faculty Scholarship Through The Usfsp Digital Archive., Deborah Boran Henry, Tina M. Neville, Carol G. Hixson

Deborah B. Henry

The USFSP Digital Collections Team at Poynter Library created and manages an institutional repository which provides faculty with a new and professionally beneficial service. These digital portfolios showcase and promote their body of scholarship, on a stable platform and with a permanent URL. The USFSP Digital Archive offers 24/7 open access to the “Faculty Works” collections, provides full-text indexing that is harvested regularly by Google, Google Scholar, and other indexers, and tracks usage to demonstrate the increasing visibility of faculty work to researchers outside of the home institution. From the faculty member’s vita, the Faculty Archive Team researches and prepares …

100 Stories: The Impact Of Open Access, Jean-Gabriel Bankier, Promita Chatterji

Jean-Gabriel Bankier