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Encouraging Openness At Your Institution: Trends In Open Education And Open Access, Marilyn S. Billings
Encouraging Openness At Your Institution: Trends In Open Education And Open Access, Marilyn S. Billings
Marilyn S. Billings
Openness is a major trend that is reshaping scholarship, research, teaching and learning throughout the world. This session focuses in on innovative Open Educational Resources (OER) initiatives being led by libraries that promote open access, and emerging opportunities for information professionals to play a critical role in supporting the adoption of open access through open education resources.
The Open Education Initiative At Umass Amherst: Seeking Alternatives To High-Cost Textbooks, Marilyn S. Billings
The Open Education Initiative At Umass Amherst: Seeking Alternatives To High-Cost Textbooks, Marilyn S. Billings
Marilyn S. Billings
This presentation provides background about open education, the OER movement, and givens information about the open education initiative at UMass Amherst as an example of how an institution can incorporate OERs in the curriculum.
Expanding Research Intelligence Expertise: Library Collaboration With A Faculty Department To Assess Research Performance [Poster], Rebecca Reznik-Zellen, Edwin Boudreaux
Expanding Research Intelligence Expertise: Library Collaboration With A Faculty Department To Assess Research Performance [Poster], Rebecca Reznik-Zellen, Edwin Boudreaux
Rebecca C. Reznik-Zellen
Academic libraries are expanding their service roles in all aspects of the research enterprise at their institutions, including the assessment of research outputs. Evaluation of research performance is necessary for the successful administration of academic departments and research institutions. Tools that facilitate evaluation are of interest to faculty, administrators, and librarians alike. SciVal, an Elsevier research intelligence product, enables libraries to provide in-depth support for evaluation projects that exceeds the standard fulfillment of requests for Journal Impact Factors and h-Indices. Operating on the cache of bibliographic information housed in the Scopus database, SciVal permits benchmarking of research productivity, impact, and …
The New Now: Institutional Repositories And Academia, Marilyn S. Billings
The New Now: Institutional Repositories And Academia, Marilyn S. Billings
Marilyn S. Billings
This keynote presentation provides a general overview of the changing digital landscape for scholarly communication with an emphasis on the role that institutional repositories play in these changes.
Seeking Alternatives To High-Cost Textbooks: The Umass Amherst Example. Part 1 Of Oer And Libraries: How Can You Help? Webinar, Marilyn S. Billings
Seeking Alternatives To High-Cost Textbooks: The Umass Amherst Example. Part 1 Of Oer And Libraries: How Can You Help? Webinar, Marilyn S. Billings
Marilyn S. Billings
As part of National Library Week, you are all cordially invited to "OER and Libraries: How Can You Help?," an Affordable Learning Georgia webinar featuring three leading OER librarians from across the nation. Details below: Marilyn Billings (University of Massachusetts at Amherst), Kate Pitcher (SUNY Geneseo), and Cyril Oberlander (Humboldt State University) are three Open Educational Resources pioneers and leaders. All three of them are librarians! Join them in our Affordable Learning Georgia webinar, discussing their roles in OER projects, and how libraries and librarians can support the OER movement.
Building Your Fan Base: Promoting Your Repository On And Off Campus, Marilyn S. Billings
Building Your Fan Base: Promoting Your Repository On And Off Campus, Marilyn S. Billings
Marilyn S. Billings
Nearing ten years with their repository initiative, Marilyn Billings and her colleagues have made outreach and the formation of partnerships core to their activities. In her presentation, Marilyn will give a retrospective look at some of the major outreach initiatives and partnerships formed over the past decade, including whom they approached and how. She’ll also provide concrete tips and ideas that you can take back to your own campuses.
Uma's Open Education Initiative: Perspective After 4 Years In, Marilyn S. Billings
Uma's Open Education Initiative: Perspective After 4 Years In, Marilyn S. Billings
Marilyn S. Billings
ASERL webinar: Lib-OER Community: Lessons from the Field. In light of growing interest among librarians to support new modes of publishing and lowering the cost of higher education, ASERL is pleased to host a panel of scholarly communication leaders to discuss their experiences in the field of alternative textbooks, a.k.a. Open Educational Resources (OERs). Panel members include Steven Bell (Temple University), Marilyn Billings (UMass Amherst), William Cross (NC State), and Melanie Kowalski (Emory University)
Systematically Populating An Ir With Etds: Launching A Retrospective Digitization Project And Collecting Current Etds At The University Of Massachusetts Amherst, Meghan Banach Bergin, Charlotte Roh
Systematically Populating An Ir With Etds: Launching A Retrospective Digitization Project And Collecting Current Etds At The University Of Massachusetts Amherst, Meghan Banach Bergin, Charlotte Roh
Meghan Banach Bergin
The University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries established their institutional repository (IR), ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst, in 2006, and we began by systematically populating it with electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs). We currently have a little over 4,500 dissertations and theses in our IR, and they are some of the\ most highly used content in our repository. Through a partnership with the Graduate School, we collect and disseminate all of our current master’s theses and doctoral dissertations through ScholarWorks. We recently launched an ambitious project to scan all 24,000 of our print dissertations and theses and upload them to our IR. In this …
Hands Across The University: Partnering To Advance Scholarly Communication, Marilyn S. Billings
Hands Across The University: Partnering To Advance Scholarly Communication, Marilyn S. Billings
Marilyn S. Billings
The University of Massachusetts – Amherst, the flagship campus of the University of Massachusetts system, has long been a leader in exploring new models of scholarly communication with a particular emphasis on partnering with faculty. The library has been key in the Open Education Initiative at the university, working closely with the Office of the Provost. This presentation will describe the services developed by the library, particularly through its institutional repository – ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst – and how these services have facilitated new partnerships and relationships with faculty and other stakeholders across the university. It will provide practical advice on the …
Libraries Leading The Way On The Textbook Problem, Marilyn S. Billings, Charlotte Roh, William M. Cross, Brendon O'Connell
Libraries Leading The Way On The Textbook Problem, Marilyn S. Billings, Charlotte Roh, William M. Cross, Brendon O'Connell
Marilyn S. Billings
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Spreading The Word, Building A Community: Vision For A National Oer Movement, Nicole Allen, Steven J. Bell, Marilyn S. Billings
Spreading The Word, Building A Community: Vision For A National Oer Movement, Nicole Allen, Steven J. Bell, Marilyn S. Billings
Marilyn S. Billings
Three experts in the use of open education resources as alternatives to high-cost textbooks describe their work and argue for the development of a national OER movement in higher education.
Are Medical Students Comfortable Managing Research Data?, Rebecca Reznik-Zellen
Are Medical Students Comfortable Managing Research Data?, Rebecca Reznik-Zellen
Rebecca C. Reznik-Zellen
Objectives: The Lamar Soutter Library at the University of Massachusetts Medical School seeks to evaluate medical students’ awareness of and comfort with data handling and data management concepts. This study will help to triangulate populations and topics for integration of data management curriculum modules.Background: A medical student’s work life is unique due to the demands of their curriculum. In addition, expectations for the stewardship of research data require that students manage their data appropriately. However, data literacy is not a formal component in most undergraduate and graduate student curricula. Libraries have filled this gap by creating educational resources and training …
Libraries And Faculty Partnering To Advance Scholarly Communication, Marilyn S. Billings
Libraries And Faculty Partnering To Advance Scholarly Communication, Marilyn S. Billings
Marilyn S. Billings
Since the 1990s serials crisis brought a struggle for university libraries to keep up with the escalating cost increases to maintain collections of scholarly materials, libraries have been exploring new models of scholarly communication. This presentation will discuss open access journals as one of these new models and examine trends in open access mandates, data management plans for scholarly research and new alternative metrics.
Sabbatical Report: Summary Of Survey Results On Digital Preservation Practices At 148 Institutions, Meghan Banach Bergin
Sabbatical Report: Summary Of Survey Results On Digital Preservation Practices At 148 Institutions, Meghan Banach Bergin
Meghan Banach Bergin
The purpose of my sabbatical project was to identify institutions with established digital preservation programs, and investigate how these programs were implemented. To accomplish this task, I conducted a web-based survey that looked into what systems were being used for digital preservation, what services were offered to the campus or user community, staffing and organizational models to support digital preservation programs, as well as the costs associated with these various digital preservation programs. I received a total of 148 responses to the survey. Of the 148 responses, 100 respondents finished the survey. To follow up from the survey, I conducted …