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Building Collaborations For Student Research Through Open Access, Dylan Burns, Becky Thoms
Building Collaborations For Student Research Through Open Access, Dylan Burns, Becky Thoms
Library Faculty & Staff Presentations
Utah State University's decade’s long tradition of undergraduate and graduate student research is a point of pride, and it’s a source of recognition of institutional and student success as well as a recruitment tool. Yet, because of the ephemeral nature of student populations, it is difficult to build relationships that encourage participation. This presentation will explore collaborations between the library and the Research and Graduate Studies office at Utah State University as an opportunity to sustain the IR through the promotion and preservation of student research. Important is the library's role in ongoing research events on campus, such as Research …
Beyond The Publishing Social Contract: University Presses And The Institutional Repository, Dylan Burns
Beyond The Publishing Social Contract: University Presses And The Institutional Repository, Dylan Burns
Library Faculty & Staff Presentations
The last thirty years have been a period of marked crisis and promise in the world of scholarly publishing. On one hand the "serial crisis" has crushed the academic librarian budget to the point where cuts are more prevalent than new purchases, but on the other the promise of open access allows for new investigative playgrounds for scholars and students across the world that are often outside of these dwindling budgets. Citing these challenges Dan Cohen wonders about the “social contract” of scholarly publishing, or the larger agreement between authors and readers on quality and availability of academic work. In …