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Letter To Congress Opposing The Research Works Act, Denise Troll Covey, Gloriana St. Clair
Letter To Congress Opposing The Research Works Act, Denise Troll Covey, Gloriana St. Clair
Gloriana St. Clair
No abstract provided.
Letter To Congress Opposing The Research Works Act, Denise Troll Covey, Gloriana St. Clair
Letter To Congress Opposing The Research Works Act, Denise Troll Covey, Gloriana St. Clair
Denise Troll Covey
No abstract provided.
Author Rights And Publishing Today: What You Should Know. Why You Should Care., Denise Troll Covey
Author Rights And Publishing Today: What You Should Know. Why You Should Care., Denise Troll Covey
Denise Troll Covey
No abstract provided.
Recruiting Content For The Institutional Repository: The Barriers Exceed The Benefits, Denise Troll Covey
Recruiting Content For The Institutional Repository: The Barriers Exceed The Benefits, Denise Troll Covey
Denise Troll Covey
Focus groups conducted at Carnegie Mellon reveal that what motivates many faculty to self-archive on a website or disciplinary repository will not motivate them to deposit their work in the institutional repository. Recruiting a critical mass of content for the institutional repository is contingent on increasing awareness, aligning deposit with existing workflows, and providing value-added services that meet needs not currently being met by other tools. Faculty share concerns about quality and the payoff for time invested in publishing and disseminating their work, but disagree about metrics for assessing quality, the merit of disseminating work prior to peer review, and …
Issues In Digital Preservation, Denise Troll Covey
Issues In Digital Preservation, Denise Troll Covey
Denise Troll Covey
No abstract provided.
Open Access & Copyright, Denise Troll Covey
Digitizing Dissertations For The Escholarship@Umms Institutional Repository, Mary E. Piorun, Lisa A. Palmer
Digitizing Dissertations For The Escholarship@Umms Institutional Repository, Mary E. Piorun, Lisa A. Palmer
Lisa A. Palmer
Our presentation will describe the process and costs associated with our first digitization project: digitizing 300 doctoral dissertations for a newly implemented institutional repository at UMass Medical School. We will start at the beginning: selecting team members and identifying their roles, choosing the right repository system, and identifying a manageable first project. We will explain how we partnered with our Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences and contacted alumni for permission to digitize their dissertations. We will also discuss technical information and decisions such as software and equipment used to scan and create searchable text, using OCR technology to convert abstracts, …
The Ethics Of Open Access To Research: A Call For Civil Disobedience And Moral Courage, Denise Troll Covey
The Ethics Of Open Access To Research: A Call For Civil Disobedience And Moral Courage, Denise Troll Covey
Denise Troll Covey
This article explores the ideological context, official rhetoric, and rank-and-file behavior of authors and publishers in the movement to provide free online (open) access to scholarly journal articles. Analysis reveals transparency among authors and obfuscation among publishers. The core values and ethical principles of librarianship require librarians to stand with authors and to exercise and foster civil disobedience and moral courage in support of open access.
Rights And Permissions In The Supply Chain: Untying The Knots For Institutional Repositories, Denise Troll Covey
Rights And Permissions In The Supply Chain: Untying The Knots For Institutional Repositories, Denise Troll Covey
Denise Troll Covey
No abstract provided.
Pastures Of Persuasion: Herding Faculty For An Institutional Repository, Denise Troll Covey
Pastures Of Persuasion: Herding Faculty For An Institutional Repository, Denise Troll Covey
Denise Troll Covey
No abstract provided.