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Irs In America: "Land Of The Free" Or "Free Online Access", Paul Royster
Irs In America: "Land Of The Free" Or "Free Online Access", Paul Royster
University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Conference Presentations and Speeches
International Association of Technological University Libraries, IATUL Seminar 2019 Gdańsk University of Technology Library, Gdańsk, Poland, /December 10, 2019 • Repositories by country (10 most) • IR platforms in the USA (pie chart) • Why institutions choose one over another • Bottom line: IRs are a great success • Top 5 IRs by content • Top IRs by traffic • What (where) is Nebraska? • Our repository • The university's most visited site • Our audience is 62% international • Downloads by continent • Downloads by country (top 12) • Downloads by item type • Average downloads by item type …
Unl Digital Commons: Presentation For Center On Children, Families And The Law, Paul Royster
Unl Digital Commons: Presentation For Center On Children, Families And The Law, Paul Royster
University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Conference Presentations and Speeches
What’s a Digital Commons ? or, What’s an institutional repository ?
Top North American IRs ‐ Contents
The university’s most‐visited site: 16% of all web traffic !
Our Philosophy
Services
Copyrights & permissions
How do I get involved ?
Feedback: Usage stats down to article level; Down to the ISP level of granularity
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Journals we host or publish; Zea Books • Monograph imprint of UNL Libraries
Let’s look at CCFL: Most downloaded papers, past year
Link to this Dashboard:
Open Textbook Project [Poster], Sue Ann Gardner
Open Textbook Project [Poster], Sue Ann Gardner
University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Conference Presentations and Speeches
Details of a porject undertaken to collaboratively write and produce an open access parasitology textbook for undergraduate and graduate students. The book will be published by Zea Books at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2020 and be available in English and Spanish both online and print-on-demand through lulu.com.
Co-Executive Editors: Sue Ann Gardner and Scott L. Gardner, University of nebraska-Lincoln. Copyeditor: Linnea Fredrickson, University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Spanish Translator: Yoanna Esquivel Greenwood, University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Project Coordinator: Sue Ann Gardner.
Project website: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/parasittext/.
Global Reach: Use Of The Nebraska Digital Commons In 3 Lmi* Countries, Andrew Cano, Sue Ann Gardner, Paul Royster
Global Reach: Use Of The Nebraska Digital Commons In 3 Lmi* Countries, Andrew Cano, Sue Ann Gardner, Paul Royster
University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Conference Presentations and Speeches
* Lower-Middle-Income country (World Bank definition): Gross National Income (GNI) average < 4,000 $US
1 Pedagogical content is valuable and popular. Age of the material is not a factor.
2 There is a significant international audience and talent pool for no-cost free-access publishing.
3 The higher value of the institutional repository is its access to metrics of impact and outreach.
What is a FOLO ? Free Online Learning Object
Downloads by country, April 2018--March 2019 (12 mos.)
25 % of IR downloads to LMI countries; 37% to other international; 38% to US.
Analysis of downloads and patterns in India, Philippines, & Nigeria.
Global Reach: Use Of The Nebraska Digital Commons In Developing Regions, Andrew Cano, Paul Royster
Global Reach: Use Of The Nebraska Digital Commons In Developing Regions, Andrew Cano, Paul Royster
University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Conference Presentations and Speeches
Developing countries comprise 40 percent of international downloads and 25 percent of all downloads from University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s institutional repository. This presentation will summarize the use of the Nebraska Digital Commons by representative countries in South Asia, East Asia and the Pacific, and Sub-Saharan Africa, the three regions where the most developing country downloads occurred in 2018. This summary includes the types of resources being downloaded and the types of organizations where the downloads occurred. Discussion will focus on how further research can be conducted on whether such use of the Nebraska Digital Commons by users in developing regions is …
Copyright: A Powerful Tool To Protect, Preserve, And Promote Your Research, Paul Royster, Sue A. Gardner
Copyright: A Powerful Tool To Protect, Preserve, And Promote Your Research, Paul Royster, Sue A. Gardner
University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Conference Presentations and Speeches
Copyright begins at “birth”
You can also register.
The holder of copyright controls the ability of others to distribute: reproductions, derivatives, translations, performance
Length of term = until you die + 70 years
Licensing and contracts
Permissions
Publisher contracts
Creative Commons licenses
Gold Open Access/APCs
Predatory journals
"Can I use this {image / quote / video clip / ...} in my {lecture / course materials / dissertation / ...}” ?
Public domain (= no copyright)
Educational use = Not Infringement
Plagiarism vs. infringement
Fair Use (1): Re-using copyrighted materials in your own work--legally
Fair use (2): The 4 Factors
Who …
Copyright: Protect, Preserve, And Promote Your Research, Sue Ann Gardner, Paul Royster
Copyright: Protect, Preserve, And Promote Your Research, Sue Ann Gardner, Paul Royster
University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Conference Presentations and Speeches
Copyright is a powerful tool to protect, preserve, and promote academic research. The slides duplicate a quiz given to workshop participants.