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Organizing The Peacock Parade : Faculty Buy-In For The Institutional Repository And Open Access Publishing, Carol G. Hixson, Deborah Boran Henry, Tina M. Neville
Organizing The Peacock Parade : Faculty Buy-In For The Institutional Repository And Open Access Publishing, Carol G. Hixson, Deborah Boran Henry, Tina M. Neville
USF St. Petersburg campus Faculty Publications
This session will demonstrate how even a small institution with limited staffing and resources can achieve more than 30 percent buy-in of their faculty to the institutional repository (IR) and increase awareness of and support for open access publishing on their campus.
Digital Archives: Vibrant And Vital To Your Institution, Carol G. Hixson, Tina M. Neville, James Anthony Schnur
Digital Archives: Vibrant And Vital To Your Institution, Carol G. Hixson, Tina M. Neville, James Anthony Schnur
USF St. Petersburg campus Faculty Publications
Libraries in North America have been leading the way in the establishment of digital archives, often called institutional repositories, for their universities or the institutions they serve. Many such repositories have had difficulty getting buy-in from faculty and others within their institutions because they have focused on one type of content only: peer-reviewed faculty content. At the University of South Florida St. Petersburg (USFSP), a model of inclusion of all members of the campus community and all types of content, coupled with a high level of service from a small group of librarians, led to quick and early adoption of …
Digital Dilemmas: The Transformation Of Scholarly Discourse In The Humanities, Anna H. Perrault
Digital Dilemmas: The Transformation Of Scholarly Discourse In The Humanities, Anna H. Perrault
Anna H. Perrault
The last two decades of the 20th century brought rapid and cataclysmic change to the industrialized world with the introduction and then invasion of computer technology into every aspect of life. Dissemination of scholarly research in many disciplines had migrated from journals and books produced by scholarly societies and university presses to the for-profit sector. As the corporate publishers began reaping profits from the scholarly enterprise, electronic publication and “taking back” the publication of research were solutions proposed to make the dissemination of research affordable for academe. The research library and scholarly publishing communities are collaborating in the establishment of …