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Research And Write At The Library, Amy F. Fyn, Allison Faix, Scott Pleasant Feb 2019

Research And Write At The Library, Amy F. Fyn, Allison Faix, Scott Pleasant

Library Faculty Presentations

This is a poster presented at the Southeastern Writing Center Conference in February 2019. The poster describes an event, the "Research and Write" workshop, that is a collaboration between the writing center and the library at Coastal Carolina University.


Growing Gkr: Increasing The Undergraduate Research Component, Debra G. Skinner Oct 2015

Growing Gkr: Increasing The Undergraduate Research Component, Debra G. Skinner

Library Faculty Presentations

The Georgia Knowledge Repository (GKR), an initiative of GALILEO, is a central repository that contains academic and intellectual works produced by Georgia colleges and universities. Established in 2013 and comprised of over 100,000 item records, GKR increases the importance of open access scholarly communication and joins a growing number of academic digital repositories. Colleges and universities are developing research seminars, open access journals, and other scholarly initiatives on campus. Libraries who manage their institutional repository are collaborating with campus departments to preserve the scholarly works of these initiatives. A panel will discuss how librarians and faculty are increasing their repositories …


Collaborative Organizational Infrastructures To Support Open Access Journals, Marianne A. Buehler Mar 2014

Collaborative Organizational Infrastructures To Support Open Access Journals, Marianne A. Buehler

Library Faculty Presentations

With the advancement of open access (OA) journal publishing opportunities in partnership with presses and faculty, libraries in alignment with intersecting academic values are fulfilling a need by supporting sustainable models of scholarly communication that incorporate disseminating faculty scholarship in collaboration with library and/or press staff and editors to “start up” an OA journal or transform an existing print journal to OA. Library staff that embrace faculty or student publishing partnerships are structuring and utilizing their scholarly communication skill sets by positioning the availability of open access publications to disseminate quality research results. University presses are also forging alliances with …


Research Literally At Your Fingertips, Marianne A. Buehler Feb 2014

Research Literally At Your Fingertips, Marianne A. Buehler

Library Faculty Presentations

  • Research: History of accessibility
  • Roles of publishers and academic libraries
  • Publishers and faculty research
  • New models of open access to scholarly materials
  • Locating and access to research
  • U.S. Federal Legislation and open research


Libraries As Partners Around The University Table, Bonnie J. Smith, Maria A. Jankowska, Marianne A. Buehler Oct 2013

Libraries As Partners Around The University Table, Bonnie J. Smith, Maria A. Jankowska, Marianne A. Buehler

Library Faculty Presentations

Agenda

Introduction - the need for the study

Research Questions

Research Method

Main Findings


Discover...Books, Articles, Everything In A Single Search!, Debra G. Skinner, Jessica M. Minihan Nov 2012

Discover...Books, Articles, Everything In A Single Search!, Debra G. Skinner, Jessica M. Minihan

Library Faculty Presentations

This presentation was given during Georgia Southern University's Eagle Techxpo.


Libraries And Sustainable Scholarly Content, Marianne A. Buehler, Maria A. Jankowska Oct 2012

Libraries And Sustainable Scholarly Content, Marianne A. Buehler, Maria A. Jankowska

Library Faculty Presentations

This presentation discusses the role of libraries in promoting sustainable practices by creating and utilizing a scholarly model of highlighting intellectual content and communication in academia. University community members aspire to collaborate, share, and showcase their sustainability research, activities, and beyond, in an institutional repository. This is an opportunity for libraries to promote scholarly communication that encompasses employing and building upon existing sustainability intellectual content. Research is locally and globally available at no cost to the reader. The social equity quotient is robust, engaging the academic community and public to freely locate research in an open access environment.

Learning Outcomes: …


The Library As Laboratory, Patricia A. Iannuzzi, Diane Harvey Nov 2002

The Library As Laboratory, Patricia A. Iannuzzi, Diane Harvey

Library Faculty Presentations

Overview of Issues:

— Improving the Quality of Undergraduate Research

- Working with students and faculty
- Curricular and Extracurricular models

— Advancing the Undergraduate Research Agenda on Campus

- strategies
- partners
- projects