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Fair Use, Laura Quilter

New England Copyright Boot Camp

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Open Access, Nonexclusive Licensing, Author Rights, Kyle K. Courtney, Laura Quilter

New England Copyright Boot Camp

An overview of copyright in relation to author contracts, a hands-on exercise reviewing an author publication agreement, and pointers about talking with authors about their publication agreements.

Also includes an overview of Creative Commons licensing and how open access policies can change the copyright default for authors and provide a legal mechanism for institutions to share author works.

Developing A Vendor Scorecard As A Tool To Re-Allocate Acquisitions Dollars And Transform Scholarly Communication, Christine N. Turner

University Libraries Presentations Series

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Flipping An Academic Library Collection: A Path To A Global Open Scholarly Commons, Christine N. Turner, Marilyn S. Billings

University Libraries Publication Series

In late 2017, the University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries participated in the David Lewis and Michael Roy “2.5% Commitment and Open Data Collection Tool Project.” This exercise provided a benchmark of collection and infrastructure investments to date, and it brought into focus the opportunity to articulate the Libraries’ intentions for their collections going forward. The UMass Amherst Libraries provide a case study of an academic library collection that is pivoting from materials produced by proprietary publishers to a mix of investments in unique and special collections; open access publishing, content and infrastructure; and materials published through traditional channels.

The Power Of Open Education To Affect Access To An Affordable Education, Student Success And Retention, Marilyn S. Billings

University Libraries Presentations Series

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From Intentional Meandering To Roadmap: Umass Amherst Libraries' Philosophical And Practical Considerations For Investing With "Open" Content Providers, Christine N. Turner, Scott A. Stangroom, Knowledge Unlatched

University Libraries Presentations Series

UMass Amherst (UMA) has chosen to invest in myriad models of open content, systems and advocacy organizations for well over a decade. What at first was an experimental approach has become more values-based, considered and collaborative. Consistent with its strategic plan, the Libraries are intentionally allocating and tracking part of their acquisitions budget to open scholarship. In an ecosystem of ever-increasing options, the social sciences and humanities (SSH) disciplines, monographs, and non-author processing charge (APC) funding are all under-represented in the open access market. UMA Libraries were an early supporter of Knowledge Unlatched (KU) as providers of OA monographs in …

Nirds Unite: Building A Community Of Institutional Repository Practitioners In The Northeast, Eleni Castro, Erin Jerome, Colin Lukens, Mikki Simon Macdonald, Lisa A. Palmer

University Libraries Publication Series

The idea for “Northeast Institutional Repository Day” (NIRD) was conceived by a group of five repository librarians in the northeast. The organizers sent out a pre-conference online survey to the IR community in November 2018 to see if fellow repository practitioners had an interest in attending and/or participating in such a day and the response was a resounding, “Yes!” The survey results suggested that building a stronger regional network of repository managers would foster meaningful discussions on the merits and effectiveness of IRs.