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What Do Editors Want?: Assessing A Growing Library Publishing Program And Finding Creative Solutions To Unmet Needs, Julia Lovett, Andrée Rathemacher

Technical Services Faculty Presentations

Poster, “What Do Editors Want?: Assessing a Growing Library Publishing Program and Finding Creative Solutions to Unmet Needs," presented at the 2019 Charleston Conference: Issues in Book and Serial Acquisition, “The time has come… to talk of many things!” on November 6, 2019 in Charleston, South Carolina.

"The University of Rhode Island University Libraries publishes six open access, peer-reviewed scholarly journals on our DigitalCommons@URI platform. Our journal publishing program has grown slowly over the last decade, with new services added incrementally as needed. We decided it was time that we assess our journal publishing efforts — to ask editors to …

Reuse, Remix, And Create With The Creative Commons, Andreé Rathemacher

Technical Services Faculty Presentations

Slides from a presentation, "Reuse, Remix, and Create with the Creative Commons," offered at the University of Rhode Island Libraries on February 22 and March 5, 2019.

"What are Creative Commons licenses and how do they work? What is the difference between something that is free online and something that is truly 'open'? Did you know that it is often a Creative Commons license that puts the 'open' in Open Access scholarship and Open Educational Resources? Whether you are an author or creator who wants to share your work more openly than the default 'all rights reserved' of copyright or …

The Open Science Framework & Reproducible Research: A New Space For Scholars & Librarians, Amanda Izenstark, Andrée Rathemacher

Technical Services Faculty Presentations

Slides from a presentation, "The Open Science Framework & Reproducible Research: A New Space for Scholars & Librarians," presented at the NELA & RILA Joint 2018 Annual Conference, Welcome: The Library is Your Space, on October 22, 2018 in Warwick, Rhode Island.

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Room: Greenwich

The Open Science Framework is a tool created to help address two crises in research: transparency and reproducibility. In this session, learn more about the reproducibility crisis and how librarians’ knowledge of the Open Science Framework can help researchers at all levels improve and share their work.

ALS Academic Librarians Section

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Failure To Reproduce: The Replication Crisis In Research — Can Librarians Help?, Andrée J. Rathemacher, Amanda Izenstark, Harrison Dekker

Technical Services Faculty Presentations

Slides from a presentation, "Failure to Reproduce: The Replication Crisis in Research — Can Librarians Help?," presented at the 2018 ACRL New England Chapter Annual Conference, Failing Forward: Experimentation and Creativity in Libraries, on May 4, 2018 in Plymouth, Massachusetts.

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Room: Carver

A recent survey by Nature found that more than 70% of researchers have tried and failed to reproduce another scientist’s experiments and more than half have failed to reproduce their own experiments! Learn more about the “reproducibility crisis” in research and how librarians are helping by teaching researchers about reproducible workflows, proper management of code and data, …

Researchgate Vs. The Institutional Repository: Competition Or Complement?, Julia Lovett, Andrée Rathemacher

Technical Services Faculty Presentations

Slides from a Breakout Session, "ResearchGate vs. the Institutional Repository: Competition or Complement?," presented at the NERCOMP Annual Conference 2018 on March 27, 2018 at the Rhode Island Convention Center in Providence, Rhode Island.

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Date: Tuesday, March 27 | 2:00pm - 2:45pm ET | Room 553

Session Type: Breakout Session

Delivery Format: Interactive Presentation

Abstract: What does the popularity of academic social networks mean for open access? To librarians tasked with implementing open access policies, it can seem as if faculty prefer to share their work through ResearchGate and Academia.edu instead of the institutional repository. But is that really …

Is Your Research Reproducible?, Andrée Rathemacher, Harrison Dekker, Amanda Izenstark

Technical Services Faculty Presentations

Slides from a presentation, "Is Your Research Reproducible?", offered at the University of Rhode Island Libraries on December 1 and December 5, 2017.

"Learn more about the reproducibility crisis, how tools like the Open Science Framework can help you contribute to solutions, and about how proper management of your code and data helps you and other researchers."

Part of the University Libraries' Search Savvy Seminar series.

Main file is a PDF file of speaker slides as presented. Supplementary file is a PDF file of speaker slides with notes, including extra slides that were not used for presentation.

Researchgate Vs. The Institutional Repository: Competition Or Complement?, Julia Lovett, Andrée Rathemacher

Technical Services Faculty Presentations

Poster, "ResearchGate vs. the Institutional Repository: Competition or Complement?," presented at the 2017 Charleston Conference: Issues in Book and Serial Acquisition, What’s Past is Prologue, on November 8, 2017 in Charleston, South Carolina.

"The popularity of ResearchGate and Academia.edu indicates that scholars want to share their work, yet to librarians tasked with implementing an Open Access policy, it can appear as though faculty are willing to invest more time uploading articles to academic social networks—often in violation of publisher policies—than in submitting articles for deposit in the institutional repository. In this session, we will present the results of a population …

Researchgate Vs. The Institutional Repository: Competition Or Complement?, Julia Lovett, Andrée Rathemacher

Technical Services Faculty Presentations

Slides with speakers' notes from a presentation at the 2017 Digital Commons New England User Group Meeting, which took place on July 28, 2017 at the Albert Sherman Center, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA.

Additional files include slides without speakers' notes, speakers' notes, program proposal, and meeting schedule.

Also posted at: http://escholarship.umassmed.edu/neirug/2017/program/13/.

Deposit In Local Ir V. Deposit In Researchgate, Julia Lovett, Andrée Rathemacher

Technical Services Faculty Presentations

Slides from a presentation at the 2017 Boston OA Advocates Meeting, which took place on July 19, 2017 at Lamont Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.

Also included as supplementary files are the speakers' notes and the meeting agenda.

Green V. Gold, Or Chatter About How Green Oa Is Not Cutting It, Andrée Rathemacher

Technical Services Faculty Presentations

Andrée Rathemacher's prompts for a discussion at the 2017 Boston OA Advocates Meeting, which took place on July 19, 2017 at Lamont Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.

Also included as supplementary files are presentation slides and the meeting agenda.

"Fake Results": The Reproducibility Crisis In Research And Open Science Solutions, Andrée Rathemacher

Technical Services Faculty Presentations

These are the slides and speaker's notes for a panel presentation given at the University of Rhode Island on March 23, 2017. The presentation was part of a panel chaired by Professor Karen F. Stein (Department of English and Gender and Women's Studies Program) titled "Finding Reliable Information in a 'Post-Fact' World." Co-panelists were Professor Amanda Izenstark (University Libraries), Professor Brian Krueger (Chair, Department of Political Science), Professor John Pantalone (Chair, Department of Journalism), and Professor Christine Zozula (Department of Sociology and Anthropology).

The panel was presented by the Coalition to Encourage Civic Engagement and was co-sponsored by the URI …

A Comparison Of Research Sharing Tools: The Institutional Repository Vs. Academic Social Networking Among University Of Rhode Island Faculty, Julia Lovett, Andrée Rathemacher

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Slides from a session, "A Comparison of Research Sharing Tools: The Institutional Repository vs. Academic Social Networking Among University of Rhode Island Faculty." Part of a project briefing session titled Tools for Modern Research Practice presented at the Coalition for Networked Information Fall 2016 Membership Meeting on December 12, 2016 in Washington, District of Columbia.

"In recent years, academic social networking sites such as ResearchGate and Academia.edu have been gaining popularity as a way for scholars to share their work and make connections. For universities with Open Access policies where faculty are expected to deposit their scholarly articles in the …

Researchgate, Copyright, And You, Andrée Rathemacher, Julia Lovett, Amanda Izenstark

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Slides from a presentation, "ResearchGate, Copyright, and You," offered at the University of Rhode Island Libraries on November 4 and November 15, 2016.

"ResearchGate, Academia.edu, and other websites make it easy to share your scholarly content, but is sharing on these sites safe to do? Learn about the implications of posting your research online, and find out how you can do so to have the most impact."

Part of the University Libraries' Search Savvy Seminar series.

Open Everything: How To Find Free, Reusable Content Online, Andrée Rathemacher, Julia Lovett, Angel Ferria

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Slides and handout from a session, "Open Everything: How to Find Free, Reusable Content Online," given at the Rhode Island Library Association Annual Conference, Color Outside the Lines, on May 25, 2016 in Warwick, Rhode Island.

"How can you help your patrons locate open materials to support their school work, personal development, and creative activities? What is the difference between content that is free to access versus free to reuse? What does it mean when content has an open license like Creative Commons? Where are the best places online to look for open e-books, learning materials, images, sound and …

Scholarly Publishing, Amanda Izenstark, Andrée Rathemacher, Julia Lovett

Technical Services Faculty Presentations

Slides from a presentation, "Scholarly Publishing," offered at the University of Rhode Island Libraries on February 17 and 18, 2016.

"Feedback from previous sessions indicates that many in the URI community are interested in learning more about scholarly publishing. This session will cover some of the roles the library plays in helping you find, organize, share, and archive your research, but we also want to hear about your more specific interests."

Part of the University Libraries' Search Savvy Seminar series.

Open Access Policies Panel Discussion, Julia Lovett, Andrée Rathemacher

Technical Services Faculty Presentations

Speaker slides from a panel discussion, "Open Access Policies Panel Discussion with Boston University, Connecticut College, & University of Rhode Island," presented at the New England Library Association Academic Librarians Section 2015 Fall Event, "Open Access: Change, Challenge, Opportunity," held on November 13, 2015 in Bridgewater, Massachusetts.

"Each institution will have 20 minutes to speak about the policy at their institution and their experience with implementing the open access policy. Many libraries are likely going to be handling these policies in the near future. What services did you need to establish? What policies did you develop? What were major faculty …

Open Access To Archival Collections, Andrée Rathemacher

Technical Services Faculty Presentations

Text of a short presentation on crowdfunding open access to archival collections. The presentation was one of five "Brief Topic Talks" at the Boston-Area Open Access Advocacy Meetup, which took place on July 14, 2015 at Snell Library, Northeastern University, Boston, MA.

Also included as supplementary files are the meeting agenda, the text of the presentation in Word, and an outline version of the presentation / speaking notes.

Redirecting Library Budgets In Support Of Open Access, Andrée Rathemacher

Technical Services Faculty Presentations

This is the text of a panel presentation given at the Women's History in the Digital World 2015 conference at Bryn Mawr College on May 22, 2015. The presentation was part of a panel chaired by Julie R. Enszer (University of Maryland) titled "Feminist and Lesbian Periodicals in the Digital Age: Rebroadcasting Our Values." Co-panelists were Ken Wachsberger (Azenphony Press) and Laura X (The Laura X-Laura Rand Orthwein, Jr. World Institute for the Legacy and Learning of Social Justice Movements.)

Also posted at: http://repository.brynmawr.edu/greenfield_conference/2015/Friday/33/

Twitter feed at: https://storify.com/GreenfieldHWE/women-s-history-in-the-digital-world-2015

Later appeared as a blog post here: https://kenwachsberger.wordpress.com/2015/06/12/redirecting-library-budgets-in-support-of-open-access/

Elevator Pitch: Open Access Talking Points, Andrée Rathemacher

Technical Services Faculty Presentations

Speaking notes and discussion questions for a facilitated networking session, "Elevator Pitch: Open Access Talking Points." The speaking notes outline the argument that "an Open Access future is inevitable," and the questions are geared to encouraging discussion among librarians about their roles in relation to Open Access.

The networking session was sponsored by the Special Interest Groups of the ACRL New England Chapter and was held during the ACRL/NEC Spring 2014 Conference, We’re All in This Together: Strengthening Librarians through Professional Development. The session took place on May 9, 2014 at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, …

Open Access, Open Source, Andrée Rathemacher

Technical Services Faculty Presentations

Discussion questions, background notes, and handout used for a round-table discussion on "Open Access, Open Source" at The Changing Face/Space of the Library: eBooks, Makerspaces, and More.

This was a professional development program jointly sponsored by the Library of Rhode Island Resource Sharing Working Group and Multi-type Reference Advisory Group. The program took place on April 29, 2014 at Bryant University in North Smithfield, RI.

The handout provides a selected list of resources for open access books, open access articles, Open Educational Resources, other open resources, and open source software.

Notes from the program are available: http://uri.libguides.com/changingface

University Of Rhode Island Open Access Policy, Andrée Rathemacher, Julia Lovett

Technical Services Faculty Presentations

Presentation slides for a presentation on the University of Rhode Island Open Access Policy to the University of Rhode Island Deans' Council, October 23, 2013.

Open Access At Uri: Exciting Opportunities For Faculty, Researchers, And Grad Students, Julia Lovett, Andrée Rathemacher

Technical Services Faculty Presentations

Slides from a presentation, "Open Access at URI: Exciting Opportunities for Faculty, Researchers, and Grad Students" offered at the University of Rhode Island Libraries on October 8 and October 21, 2013.

"Open Access provides you with the opportunity to increase your readership and your scholarly impact, and also improves your access to scholarly information. The DigitalCommons@URI is part of an international effort to increase access to scholarly articles, theses, and dissertations. Come learn about the benefits of open access for your research and how to comply with URI's Open Access policies."

Part of the University Libraries' Search Savvy Seminar series.

Oa Policy Development At Uri, Andrée Rathemacher

Technical Services Faculty Presentations

Slides and other materials related to a presentation on the development of an open access policy at the University of Rhode Island.

The presentation was part of a discussion on recent OA policy development in New England at the ACRL New England Chapter Scholarly Communication Interest Group Summer Program, New Roles for Supporting Digital Scholarship in Academic Libraries. The program took place on June 19, 2013 at Northeastern University in Boston, MA.

Open Access Publishing And Intellectual Freedom: Remembering Aaron Swartz, Brendan Ryan, Andrée Rathemacher

Technical Services Faculty Presentations

Slides and other materials related to a presentation on open access at the 2013 Rhode Island Library Association Annual Conference, Navigating a Sea of Change. The presentation was part of a broader discussion on open access and Aaron Swartz. It took place on June 4, 2013 at Salve Regina University in Newport, RI.

The abstract for the presentation reads: "After an introduction to the concept of Creative Commons and the tragic case of Aaron Swartz, join the panelists in discussing open access, scholarly publishing and the flow of information as they relate to libraries."

Open Access And The Institutional Repository, Julia Lovett, Andrée Rathemacher

Technical Services Faculty Presentations

Slides and other materials from a presentation at the conference Querying the Library: Digitization and Its Impact, sponsored by the James P. Adams Library at Rhode Island College. The conference took place on May 31, 2013. A video of the presentation is available at http://digitalcommons.ric.edu/ql/2013/QTL_May31/5/.

Abstract of the presentation reads: "This panel will discuss the efforts to pass a Harvard-style Open Access Policy at URI which will enable faculty authors to retain the rights to their articles even if they subsequently sign away their copyright to a journal."

Open Access Policy At The University Of Rhode Island, Julia Lovett, Andrée Rathemacher

Technical Services Faculty Presentations

Materials related to a "Lightning Talk" presentation on the University of Rhode Island Open Access Policy, given at the NETSL Annual Spring Conference in Worcester, MA, April 12, 2013.

Digital Media And Open Access: A Solution For Readers And Writers, Andrée Rathemacher

Technical Services Faculty Presentations

Powerpoint presentation for a seminar, "Digital Media and Open Access: A Solution for Readers and Writers." The seminar was sponsored by the Harrington School of Communication and Media and co-sponsored by the University Libraries at the University of Rhode Island. It took place on March 26, 2013.

An Open Access Policy For Uri: A Recommendation Of The Ad-Hoc Committee On Open Access, Andrée J. Rathemacher

Technical Services Faculty Presentations

Powerpoint presentation to the University of Rhode Island Faculty Senate on behalf of the Ad-Hoc Committee on Open Access, February 21, 2013.

Where’S My Journal: Open Access And Digital Repositories, Andrée J. Rathemacher

Technical Services Faculty Presentations

Presentation slides for the breakout session "Where’s My Journal: Open Access and Digital Repositories" at the 2020 Vision: The Future of URI Library Services Forum, University of Rhode Island Memorial Union, Kingston, RI. November 4, 2011.