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Self Promotion As A Scholar: Showcasing Your Work Through Open Access, Dave Johnston Nov 2013

Self Promotion As A Scholar: Showcasing Your Work Through Open Access, Dave Johnston

Dave Johnston

This presentation provided to the University of Windsor's Graduate Student Society discusses open access and the currently scholarly publishing landscape, and how the library can help increase the visibility of your work as a researcher.


Aceresearch : Promoting The Visibility Of Educational Research Through An Institutional Repository, Lance Deveson Oct 2013

Aceresearch : Promoting The Visibility Of Educational Research Through An Institutional Repository, Lance Deveson

Lance Deveson

ACEReSearch is the research repository at the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER). The author presents an overview of the evolution and development of this open access online resource.


Blended, Online Learning And Distance Education (Bolde) Research Bank, Lance Deveson Oct 2013

Blended, Online Learning And Distance Education (Bolde) Research Bank, Lance Deveson

Lance Deveson

BOLDE – the Blended, Online Learning and Distance Education research bank, is a resource created and managed by librarians at ACER that tackles the mass of information on distance and online education. BOLDE analyses, orders, selects, indexes and distributes this research information for the benefit of the global distance and online education community.


Bolde Research Bank - Blended, Online Learning & Distance Education (Power Point Presentation), Lance Deveson Oct 2013

Bolde Research Bank - Blended, Online Learning & Distance Education (Power Point Presentation), Lance Deveson

Lance Deveson

A power point presentation describing the history and features of the Blended, Online Learning and Distance Education (BOLDE) research bank.


Publishing Open Access E-Journals: Leveraging An Outreach Opportunity, Laura Edwards, Linda Sizemore, Kelly Smith Jul 2013

Publishing Open Access E-Journals: Leveraging An Outreach Opportunity, Laura Edwards, Linda Sizemore, Kelly Smith

Linda Sizemore

Eastern Kentucky University (EKU) Libraries began exploring the institutional repository (IR) landscape in 2009 with the intention of publishing electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs), journals, special collections, images, videos, sound files, or anything else that would fit a need for us. The hosted systems we examined were effective as either platforms for displaying special collections or platforms for managing publishing processes. However, we didn’t find a system that did both of those things well.


Bypassing Roadblocks To Technical Information: Locating Freely Available Technical Information For Entrepreneurs, Anne E. Rauh Apr 2013

Bypassing Roadblocks To Technical Information: Locating Freely Available Technical Information For Entrepreneurs, Anne E. Rauh

Anne Rauh

If you have ever had to seek technical information, you have probably run into an information access roadblock or a pay-wall. This is a major issue for our students as they leave our universities and our subscription resources and move on to become practitioners of their field. This session will outline the different types of freely available technical information - including patents, government funded technical reports, and open access journal literature - and demonstrate how to access them. The session will also give examples of how to integrate these resources into the classroom through design projects and information seeking assignments. …


Intersections Of Scholarly Communication And Information Literacy: Creating Strategic Collaborations For A Changing Academic Environment, C. Jeffrey Belliston, Polly Boruff-Jones, Stephanie Davis-Kahl, Barbara Defelice, Mel Desart, Erin L. Ellis, Terri Fishel, Julia Gelfand, Merinda Hensley, Kara Malenfant, Sarah Mcdaniel, Kevin Smith, Jean Zanoni Jan 2013

Intersections Of Scholarly Communication And Information Literacy: Creating Strategic Collaborations For A Changing Academic Environment, C. Jeffrey Belliston, Polly Boruff-Jones, Stephanie Davis-Kahl, Barbara Defelice, Mel Desart, Erin L. Ellis, Terri Fishel, Julia Gelfand, Merinda Hensley, Kara Malenfant, Sarah Mcdaniel, Kevin Smith, Jean Zanoni

Teresa A. Fishel

"Intersections of Scholarly Communication and Information Literacy: Creating Strategic Collaborations for a Changing Academic Environment, a white paper published by the Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL). Written by a working group of leaders from many parts of the association, this white paper explores and articulates three intersections between scholarly communication and information literacy. The paper also provides strategies for librarians from different backgrounds to initiate collaborations within their own campus environments between information literacy and scholarly communication." From the website where an online version is available for comment. http://acrl.ala.org/intersections/