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Gathering The Needles Evaluating The Impact Of Gold Open Access Content With Traditional Subscription Journals, Jill Emery, Alison Bobal

Library Faculty Publications and Presentations

Investigating the use of gold open access content within subscription content has been a near impossible task until the adoption of the COUNTER 4 statistics in 2014. By reviewing the COUNTER JR1 GOA 2014 reports, two librarians evaluate the gold open access usage at their respective institutions from the following publishers: Elsevier, NPG, Sage, Springer, and Wiley. This initial investigation will be a benchmark for future studies to see if there is any impact on subscribed content or if usage is limited to non-subscribed content from these providers. Attendees will become familiar with the JR1 GOA reports from COUNTER as …

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.

Fundraising For Affordability: Well, Somebody's Got To Pay For It. Panel Presentation With Lauren Fancher, Jeff Galant, Gerry Hanley, And Marilyn Moody, Marilyn K. Moody

Library Faculty Publications and Presentations

This individual panel presentation by Marilyn Moody describes the work being undertaken by Portland State University to reduce student costs for textbooks and course materials. It describes the major stakeholders and their impact. It also includes Portland State strategies being used to build support and funding for textbook affordability initiatives.

Full panel conference abstract: These three entities have successfully fundraised in order to address the cost of course materials on campuses. Lauren Fancher and Jeff Gallant of ALG will discuss state government funds for the University of Georgia Regents, Gerry Hanley will present his efforts working with private foundations with …

Pdxscholar Annual Report 2014, Karen Bjork, Sherry Buchanan, David Coate, Bertrand Robinson, Stacey Schlatter

Library Faculty Publications and Presentations

This report details the fourth year of operation for PDXScholar, Portland State University's institutional repository. The report covers the period between January 1, 2014 and December 31, 2014.