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Open Access To Knowledge: Introduction, Sherif K. Shaheen Prof.
Open Access To Knowledge: Introduction, Sherif K. Shaheen Prof.
sherif k. shaheen Prof.
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Bypassing Roadblocks To Technical Information: Locating Freely Available Technical Information For Entrepreneurs, Anne E. Rauh
Bypassing Roadblocks To Technical Information: Locating Freely Available Technical Information For Entrepreneurs, Anne E. Rauh
Anne Rauh
If you have ever had to seek technical information, you have probably run into an information access roadblock or a pay-wall. This is a major issue for our students as they leave our universities and our subscription resources and move on to become practitioners of their field. This session will outline the different types of freely available technical information - including patents, government funded technical reports, and open access journal literature - and demonstrate how to access them. The session will also give examples of how to integrate these resources into the classroom through design projects and information seeking assignments. …
Picking Up The Pieces: A Retro Etd Project At Utah State University, Richard W. Clement
Picking Up The Pieces: A Retro Etd Project At Utah State University, Richard W. Clement
Richard W. Clement
Inspired by the many accomplishments of our NDLTD colleagues, the Merrill-Cazier Library decided that our current and very successful ETD program (comprising 1800 titles) was not sufficient and that we needed to go back and digitize and make available the previous 100 years of theses and dissertations produced at Utah State University. We recognized that all our theses and dissertations should be made available on our IR, DigitalCommons @ USU. That realization, and reallocation of resources, was the easy part. Our first difficulty was to identify all the previous theses and dissertation and create a registry. From the online catalog …
From Conception To Reality: Building A Successful Ir At Utah State University, Richard W. Clement
From Conception To Reality: Building A Successful Ir At Utah State University, Richard W. Clement
Richard W. Clement
Utah State University's conception for its institutional repository has been broad from the outset. Our vision has extended far beyond depositing copies of ETDs and collecting previously published peer-reviewed faculty articles, though these remain important components. We recognized and envisioned a broad continuum of scholarly content created on campus that would benefit from the greater access and visibility afforded by deposit in an IR. This continuum ranges from the University Press and scholarly journals to the reports of the Agricultural Extension Service and the technical reports of the Utah Water Laboratory to student research posters, and much more. We also …
The Choice Is Yours! Researchers Assign Subject Metadata To Their Own Materials In Insitutional Repositories, Maira Bundza
The Choice Is Yours! Researchers Assign Subject Metadata To Their Own Materials In Insitutional Repositories, Maira Bundza
Maira Bundza
The Digital Commons platform for institutional repositories provides a three-tiered taxonomy of academic disciplines for each item submitted to the repository. Since faculty and departmental administrators across campuses are encouraged to submit materials to the institutional repository themselves, they must also assign disciplines or subject categories for their own work. The expandable drop-down menu of about 1,000 categories is easy to use, and facilitates the growth of the institutional repository and access to the materials through the Internet.
Selectedworks And Digital Commons: An Ideal Partnership, Tim Tamminga
Selectedworks And Digital Commons: An Ideal Partnership, Tim Tamminga
Tim Tamminga
SelectedWorks can serve as an integral part of your Digital Commons repository by providing each faculty member with a well-designed site for showcasing their work. Topics include: How schools are successfully providing SelectedWorks as a service to faculty How faculty are benefiting from SelectedWorks How libraries are using SelectedWorks to harvest into Digital Commons
So What Is Digital Commons? A Presentation During Ala Midwinter 2011, Tim Tamminga
So What Is Digital Commons? A Presentation During Ala Midwinter 2011, Tim Tamminga
Tim Tamminga
This presentation followed Paul Royster's presentation titled "The Institutional Repository as a Tool for Librarians ." It was intended to show how schools are using Digital Commons to store and showcase a variety of content: digital collections, student research (e.g., theses and dissertations), institutional and community materials, scholarly publishing (journals and monographs), events such as conferences, and articles (pre- and postprint).
Institutional Repositories For Medical Schools, Tim Tamminga
Institutional Repositories For Medical Schools, Tim Tamminga
Tim Tamminga
The presentation explores why a medical school or health sciences organization ought to implement an Institutional Repository. The presentation also describes what some medical school are doing with their repositories. This presentation with audio can be seen on Vimeo at http://vimeo.com/15610845
Catching The Wave: Academic Library As Scholarly Publisher, Tim Tamminga
Catching The Wave: Academic Library As Scholarly Publisher, Tim Tamminga
Tim Tamminga
The presentation covers the following topics: - Scholarly journal publishing: an environmental scan - A glimpse at how a publishing system works - Communities within the School who need publishing services and the publishing possibilities - Why should the library provide publishing services?
New And Alternative Directions In Scholarly Publishing: The Berkeley Electronic Press Experience, Tim Tamminga
New And Alternative Directions In Scholarly Publishing: The Berkeley Electronic Press Experience, Tim Tamminga
Tim Tamminga
Berkeley Electronic Press (bepress) was formed as an alternative to commercial scholarly publishing. The presentation examines bepress's guest access to its electronic journals, and examples of universities that are using bepress's Digital Commons to launch their own scholarly peer-reviewed electronic journals and series. The presentation also examines how scholarly publishing can support teaching faculty as well as research faculty.
Digital Commons: Publishing Undergraduate Student Research, Tim Tamminga
Digital Commons: Publishing Undergraduate Student Research, Tim Tamminga
Tim Tamminga
An institutional repository can be used to showcase undergraduate scholarship in a number of ways. These examples suggest that teaching schools can use Digital Commons as effectively as research universities.
Digital Commons: Examples Of Successful Repositories, Tim Tamminga
Digital Commons: Examples Of Successful Repositories, Tim Tamminga
Tim Tamminga
Digital Commons is used by over 120 institutions around the world. This presentation explores how these institutions are using Digital Commons to extend their services to faculty, researchers, departments and the institution.
Tapping Utah's Scholarly Works, Cheryl D. Walters, Jeff Belliston, Allyson Mower
Tapping Utah's Scholarly Works, Cheryl D. Walters, Jeff Belliston, Allyson Mower
Cheryl D. Walters
Academic institutions in Utah talk about the institutional repositories (IRs) they have created to provide open access to the intellectual output of their university faculty, staff, and students. Covers platforms (Dspace, CONTENTdm, & Digital Commons), copyright, faculty outreach, collaboration on a statewide IR portal, etc.
Academic Library As Publishing Agent: Showcasing Student, Faculty, And Campus Scholarship And Publications, Teresa Fishel, Marilyn Billings, Allegra Gonzalez
Academic Library As Publishing Agent: Showcasing Student, Faculty, And Campus Scholarship And Publications, Teresa Fishel, Marilyn Billings, Allegra Gonzalez
Teresa A. Fishel
Academic libraries of all sizes can and must strategically position themselves to be a campus publisher. A means of doing this is to implement an IR, providing institutions an opportunity to showcase senior theses, and student and faculty peer-reviewed journals. Presentation includes representatives from a small college, a consortium of small colleges, and a university with a university press.
The Institutional Repository And The Institution’S Mission, Tim Tamminga
The Institutional Repository And The Institution’S Mission, Tim Tamminga
Tim Tamminga
The presentation briefly looks at how libraries originally presented IRs. These approaches tended to fail. However, when the IR is aligned with the mission of the school, the odds of success are much higher. Libraries need a strategic approach to selling the value of the IR to the Provost and Deans
Combining Scholarly Publishing And Institutional Repositories, Tim Tamminga
Combining Scholarly Publishing And Institutional Repositories, Tim Tamminga
Tim Tamminga
Scholarly publishing and Institutional Repositories work well together. Examples of publishing at various universities are shown in this presentation.
Issues With Scholarly Publishing, Tim Tamminga
Issues With Scholarly Publishing, Tim Tamminga
Tim Tamminga
Universities are increasingly self-publishing scholarly research through formal journals or other forms of publishing. A parallel trend is to include or actually use the IR as the publishing platform. This presentation shows examples of how self-publishing and IRs can work well together.