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Using Digital Commons To Publish Award-Winning Student Scholarship, Joe Clark

Digital Commons + Northern Ohio User Group

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Open Access And Copyright For Theses And Dissertations, Erin Jerome

Open Access Week

What is the benefit for choosing open access for your dissertation or thesis? How can your copyright choices help or hurt your scholarship? In this workshop, an overview of open access, copyright, and fair use as it relates to your thesis or dissertation will be presented. We will also allow for plenty of time to discuss your thoughts and questions about these issues.

Lever Press Panel, Rebecca Welzenbach, Teresa Fishel, Karil Kucera

Oberlin Digital Scholarship Conference

This panel introduced and discussed the Lever Press, a new publishing initiative for peer-reviewed, open access, digitally native scholarly monographs supported by more than 40 liberal arts colleges.

• Rebecca Welzenbach, University of Michigan, "A Place to Stand: Fulcrum and Lever Press"
• Terri Fishel, Macalester College, "Lever Press: From Start to Present"
• Karil Kucera, St. Olaf College, "Publish or Perish: A Faculty Perspective on Digital Publishing"

Etds And The Landscape Of Open Access Publishing, Gail Mcmillan

Transforming Libraries for Graduate Students

Countering anecdotal evidence and calming fears about publicly accessible ETDs—electronic theses and dissertations, McMillan will present a variety of perspectives based on current data. She has led international surveys and gathered data from publishers and journal editors about their policies regarding ETDs. To these she will add data about ETD initiatives based on graduate school and university library activities.