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How Subject Librarians Make Better Irs And How Irs Make Better Subject Librarians, Andrew Wesolek, Kacy Lundstrom Jan 2012

How Subject Librarians Make Better Irs And How Irs Make Better Subject Librarians, Andrew Wesolek, Kacy Lundstrom

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A Subject Librarian and an Institutional Repository (IR) Librarian will discuss new strategies for working collaboratively to build the IR and promote its use. At USU, subject librarians not only market the IR to their departments, but also clear copyright for scholarly works to be included in the IR. This new model helps USU build the IR more quickly, and it helps subject librarians learn about their subject areas while building relationships with their constituents. This new model, though, also presents new challenges. Attempts to overcome these will be discussed.


Usu Policy 535: Open Access To Scholarly Articles. What It Is And What It Means For Us, Andrew Wesolek Jan 2012

Usu Policy 535: Open Access To Scholarly Articles. What It Is And What It Means For Us, Andrew Wesolek

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Presentation given to faculty retreats in the fall of 2012 detailing the recently adopted Open Access Policy, it's benefits to researchers, and means of compliance.


Open Access, Peter Suber Jan 2012

Open Access, Peter Suber

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In this concise introduction, Peter Suber tells us what open access is and isn’t, how it benefits authors and readers of research, how we pay for it, how it avoids copyright problems, how it has moved from the periphery to the mainstream, and what its future may hold. Distilling a decade of Suber’s influential writing and thinking about open access, this is the indispensable book on the subject for researchers, librarians, administrators, funders, publishers, and policy makers.


Arl Code Of Best Practices, Association Of Research Libraries Jan 2012

Arl Code Of Best Practices, Association Of Research Libraries

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The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Academic Libraries a clear and easy-to-use statement of fair and reasonable approaches to fair use developed by and for librarians who support academic inquiry and higher education.


Video At Risk: Preserving Commercial Video Collections In Libraries, Tisch School Of The Arts Jan 2012

Video At Risk: Preserving Commercial Video Collections In Libraries, Tisch School Of The Arts

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These guidelines seek to clarify exemptions for copying audiovisual works under Section 108(c) of the United States Copyright Act and thereby enhance the ability of librarians to preserve their video collections. They provide guidance for interpreting and applying the specific language of 108(c), clarifying definitions of ‘damaged’, ‘deteriorating’, ‘replacement copies’, ‘reasonable effort’, ‘fair price’, ‘obsolete’, ‘public’, ‘circulate’, and others, in a useful eight guideline overview.