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Zotero, Anne E. Rauh, Linda M. Galloway

Libraries' and Librarians' Publications

Zotero is a free, open access, citation management tool that allows users to store, manage and cite bibliographic references. Zotero can format citations in many different styles and lets users insert citations within word processing software. Zotero allows for easy collaboration between multiple authors and enables users to create private or shared reading lists. Zotero is a project of the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media. At the completion of this class, participants will be able to:

• Install Zotero
• Collect and organize citations
• Create formatted bibliographies and insert citations into documents
• Collaborate with colleagues to create reading lists …

One Library, Many Music Departments: Developing And Integrated Library Instruction Program For All, Rachel Fox Von Swearingen

Libraries' and Librarians' Publications

The undergraduate music curriculum at Syracuse University spans multiple academic departments and colleges, comprising liberal arts, conservatory, and professional degree programs. This diversity has been a challenge to providing adequate and appropriately timed library instruction, resulting in some students receiving the same one-shot session multiple times and others receiving none at all. Faculty across music departments expressed that music students were lacking both basic and music-specific information literacy skills.

As the new music librarian, I sought to bridge the various departments and develop an integrated library instruction plan for all music undergraduate programs. In cooperation with faculty, I established library …

Altmetrics For The Information Professional: A Primer, Linda M. Galloway, Janet L. Pease

Libraries' and Librarians' Publications

Altmetrics, or alternative citation metrics, provide researchers and scholars with new ways to track influence across a wide range of media and platforms. From deciding what to read based on tweets, to enhancing scholarship with collaboration, altmetrics will exert more and more influence on the scholarly landscape. Awareness of altmetric tools, and the ways in which they can be used, will position information professionals at the forefront of this exciting new era in knowledge dissemination and assessment.

As social media plays an ever increasing role in the communication of scholarship, the authors will discuss how altmetrics can be a valuable …

Social Media And Citation Metrics, Linda M. Galloway, Anne E. Rauh

Libraries' and Librarians' Publications

Quantifying scholarly output via traditional citation metrics is the time-honored method to gauge academic success. However, as the tentacles of social media spread into professional personas, scholars are interacting more frequently and more meaningfully with these tools. Measuring the influence and impact of scholarly engagement with online tools and networks is gaining importance in academia today.

Assessing the impact of a scholar’s work can be measured by evaluating several factors including the number of peer-reviewed publications, citations to these publications and the influence of the publications. These metrics take a relatively long time to accumulate, some are available only via …

Bypassing Roadblocks To Technical Information: Locating Freely Available Technical Information For Entrepreneurs, Anne E. Rauh

Libraries' and Librarians' Publications

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. …

Citation Metrics, Anne E. Rauh, Linda M. Galloway

Libraries' and Librarians' Publications

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Chapter 2 Exploring The Intersections Of Information Literacy And Scholarly Communication [Two Frames Of Reference For Undergraduate Instruction], Kim Duckett, Scott Warren

Libraries' and Librarians' Publications

Common Ground at the Nexus of Information Literacy and Scholarly Communication presents concepts, experiments, collaborations, and strategies at the crossroads of the fields of scholarly communication and information literacy. The seventeen essays and interviews in this volume engage ideas and describe vital partnerships that enrich both information literacy and scholarly communication programs within institutions of higher education. Contributions address core scholarly communication topics such as open access, copyright, authors’ rights, the social and economic factors of publishing, and scholarly publishing through the lens of information literacy. This volume is appropriate for all university and college libraries and for library and …

Embedding Librarians Into The Stem Publication Process, Anne E. Rauh, Linda M. Galloway

Libraries' and Librarians' Publications

STEM Librarians at Syracuse University actively participate throughout the scientific publication process. This chapter will outline points in the process where librarian involvement is applicable and beneficial. Librarians Anne Rauh and Linda Galloway will explain how and why it is important to teach tools that organize scientific literature to faculty and students before they begin the writing process. The use of assessment techniques to help inform targeted publication venues will be described. Post-publication, this chapter will describe how to help authors gauge the impact of their work, promote their publications and increase their visibility.

Introduction To Altmetrics For Science, Technology, Engineering, And Mathematics (Stem) Librarians, Linda M. Galloway, Janet Pease, Anne E. Rauh

Libraries' and Librarians' Publications

Quantifying scholarly output via citation metrics is the time-honored method to gauge academic success. Altmetrics, or alternative citation metrics, provide researchers and scholars with new ways to track influence across evolving modes of scholarly communication. This article will give librarians an overview of new trends in measuring scholarly influence, introduce them to altmetrics tools, and encourage them to engage with researchers in discussion of these new metrics.

Test #2 Oclc Reclamation, Sarah H. Theimer

Libraries' and Librarians' Publications

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A Hitchhiker's Guide To The Future Of Cataloging: Public Services Edition, Sarah H. Theimer

Libraries' and Librarians' Publications

Provides and overview of changes coming due to the adoption of RDA. Discusses the Bibliographic Framework Initiative which is developing a replacement for MARC.

Test #1 Oclc Reclamation, Sarah H. Theimer

Libraries' and Librarians' Publications

No abstract provided.

A Case Study In Open Access Journal Publishing At Syracuse University: Library And University Press Partnership Furthers Scholarly Communication, Yuan Li, Suzanne E. Guiod, Suzanne Preate

Libraries' and Librarians' Publications

No abstract provided.