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Mark J Caprio

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Re-Engineering Relationships With Faculty And Students: A Social Contract For Digital Scholarship, Mark J. Caprio Jan 2015

Re-Engineering Relationships With Faculty And Students: A Social Contract For Digital Scholarship, Mark J. Caprio

Mark J Caprio

The attached document is a post-print. The official publication is due out mid-August, 2015.


Libraries As Publishers: Who, What, Why?, Mark J. Caprio Apr 2014

Libraries As Publishers: Who, What, Why?, Mark J. Caprio

Mark J Caprio

No abstract provided.


Publishing Inti: A Suite Of Services Case Study, Mark J. Caprio, Christiane M. Landry Jan 2014

Publishing Inti: A Suite Of Services Case Study, Mark J. Caprio, Christiane M. Landry

Mark J Caprio

Discusses the development of Providence College’s Phillips Memorial Library+Commons Digital Publishing Services (DPS) Department and its evolving collaborative partnership with the faculty editor of Inti: La revista de literatura hispánica, a paper subscription-based, peer-reviewed journal. Beginning with digitization and publication through Providence College’s institutional repository (IR) of the earliest issues, the paper details the evolution of the partnership through support for digital print-on-demand and creation of a companion website for both promoting forthcoming issues and for exploring new forms of “writing” and expression through digital media.


If You Built It, They Will Come: Strategies For Developing An Undergraduate Research Conference, Mark J. Caprio, Robert B. Hackey Jan 2014

If You Built It, They Will Come: Strategies For Developing An Undergraduate Research Conference, Mark J. Caprio, Robert B. Hackey

Mark J Caprio

The benefits of conference participation for undergraduates are now well understood, but the same cannot be said for the practical question of how to create and fund such opportunities for students, particularly at smaller liberal arts colleges. We seek to provide faculty and students with useful lessons for organizing, funding, and disseminating student research presented at discipline-specific undergraduate conferences. Hosting an undergraduate research conference pays dividends for faculty and students by a) providing incentives for undergraduates to revise and extend seminar papers for presentation, b) creating opportunities for students and faculty to meet and discuss their work among students with …


Student Publishing: Future Scholars As Change Agents, Mark J. Caprio Jan 2014

Student Publishing: Future Scholars As Change Agents, Mark J. Caprio

Mark J Caprio

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to highlight undergraduates as an emergent student–scholar author group and to encourage institutions to take a future-oriented view, focusing greater attention to and support of undergraduate’s publishing. Design/methodology/approach – Highlighting benefits derived from undergraduate research (UR) experiences and publishing taken from the literature and experienced through local practice (Providence College), presenting pedagogical models for transforming students into independent thinkers (students as scholars) and responding to business and non-profit leader graduate skills requests of higher education, this paper argues for the need to cultivate graduate attributes (requisite 21st century workforce skills, abilities and …


Publishing Inti: A Suite Of Services Case Study, Mark J. Caprio, Christiane Marie Landry Jul 2013

Publishing Inti: A Suite Of Services Case Study, Mark J. Caprio, Christiane Marie Landry

Mark J Caprio

Both public and academic libraries are invested in the creation and distribution of information and digital content. They have morphed from keepers of content into content creators and curators, and seek best practices and efficient workflows with emerging publishing platforms and services. The Library Publishing Toolkit looks at the broad and varied landscape of library publishing through discussions, case studies, and shared resources. From supporting writers and authors in the public library setting to hosting open access journals and books, this collection examines opportunities for libraries to leverage their position and resources to create and provide access to content. The …


Animating Assets: Telling A Story Utilizing Digital Repositories Objects, Mark J. Caprio May 2012

Animating Assets: Telling A Story Utilizing Digital Repositories Objects, Mark J. Caprio

Mark J Caprio

Focused on the importance of storytelling in a digital environment and of of creating context for digitization projects--possibilities of establishing relationships across assets and projects for networked knowledge environments.


Online Exhibits, Mark J. Caprio Mar 2012

Online Exhibits, Mark J. Caprio

Mark J Caprio

Highlights faculty/librarian collaborations in support of teaching, learning and research (TLR). The presentation focused on a range of technologies (basic and advanced) used to support the building of collection/project-focused websites that aggregate locally created and remote repository collections and resources.


Digital Repositories, Publishing And Scholarship, Mark J. Caprio Jan 2011

Digital Repositories, Publishing And Scholarship, Mark J. Caprio

Mark J Caprio

No abstract provided.


Institutional Repositories: A Disruptive Response To An Established Paradigm, Mark J. Caprio Oct 2010

Institutional Repositories: A Disruptive Response To An Established Paradigm, Mark J. Caprio

Mark J Caprio

Presentation focused on Institutional Repositories as a disruptive technology, and as an essential system for the new unit of scholarly communication, that is, the complex digital object, components of which may exit in distributed environments.