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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

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

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Mapping Metadata At A Public University, Blake Graham, Harriet Wintermute, Margaret Mering

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Conference Presentations and Speeches

This session explores the purpose of metadata application profiles (MAP), and how a team of practitioners at a public university developed a single MAP representing metadata elements and values from multiple repositories.

Download is a pdf file.

PowerPoint (.pptx) slides attached below.

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

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

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

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

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.

Moving From Talk To Action: What Does Successful Institutional Change Related To Equity, Diversity And Inclusion (Edi) Look Like?, Mark A. Puente, Kiyomi D. Deards

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Conference Presentations and Speeches

Slides of a talk: Puente, M.A., Deards, K.D. (2019). Moving From Talk to Action: What Does Successful Institutional Change Related to Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) Look Like? IDEAL’19: Advancing Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility in Libraries & Archives.

Includes:

Where is the Change? Strategies & Tools ARL’s Future Plans Resources Action & Assessment