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Shake It Off: Journal Of Escience Librarianship Edition, Regina F. Raboin, Julie Goldman, Lisa A. Palmer Dec 2017

Shake It Off: Journal Of Escience Librarianship Edition, Regina F. Raboin, Julie Goldman, Lisa A. Palmer

Lisa A. Palmer

This case study explores the evolution of the library published Journal of eScience Librarianship (JeSLIB), as it evolves to continue to serve librarians faced with the many challenges of a data driven environment. JeSLIB is an open access, peer-reviewed journal published by the Lamar Soutter Library at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. The library publishes JeSLIB through its eScholarship@UMMS repository on the bepress Digital Commons platform.

JeSLIB was at the forefront of thinking about the “library as scholarly publisher” and sought to fill a need for librarians to learn about new challenges related to scientific research data. …


Journal Evaluation Tool, Shilpa Rele, Marie Kennedy, Nataly Blas Nov 2017

Journal Evaluation Tool, Shilpa Rele, Marie Kennedy, Nataly Blas

Nataly Blas

The changing mechanisms of scholarly publishing may make it difficult for you to determine where to publish the results of your research or creative works. In order to assist you in making the best decisions for your work, and to avoid journals that may not be credible, the William H. Hannon Library has developed a rubric for the evaluation of journals. Our focus during the development of this tool was specifically to address the concerns of our Loyola Marymount University faculty about Open Access journals, but this rubric may be applied more broadly to any kind of journal.


Marshall University Libraries Enhance Scholarly Publication, Jingping Zhang, Larry Sheret Nov 2017

Marshall University Libraries Enhance Scholarly Publication, Jingping Zhang, Larry Sheret

Jingping Zhang

Marshall University Library has been experiencing a fruitful collaboration with various departments and programs on campus involving the publication of peer-reviewed journals, which are hosted on Marshall’s open access institutional repository (OAIR), Marshall Digital Scholar (MDS). Euscorpius, Marshall Journal of Medicine and Sermon Studies are currently publishing peer-reviewed research articles. Two other peer-reviewed journals are in the planning stage to begin publication this year. One of these, the Journal of Applied Digital Evidence (JADE) is a collaboration with the forensic sciences programs at Marshall University, Eastern Kentucky University and Purdue.


Marshall University Libraries Enhance Scholarly Publication, Jingping Zhang, Larry Sheret Nov 2017

Marshall University Libraries Enhance Scholarly Publication, Jingping Zhang, Larry Sheret

Larry Sheret

Marshall University Library has been experiencing a fruitful collaboration with various departments and programs on campus involving the publication of peer-reviewed journals, which are hosted on Marshall’s open access institutional repository (OAIR), Marshall Digital Scholar (MDS). Euscorpius, Marshall Journal of Medicine and Sermon Studies are currently publishing peer-reviewed research articles. Two other peer-reviewed journals are in the planning stage to begin publication this year. One of these, the Journal of Applied Digital Evidence (JADE) is a collaboration with the forensic sciences programs at Marshall University, Eastern Kentucky University and Purdue.


Researchgate Vs. The Institutional Repository: Competition Or Complement?, Julia Lovett, Andrée Rathemacher Aug 2017

Researchgate Vs. The Institutional Repository: Competition Or Complement?, Julia Lovett, Andrée Rathemacher

Julia Lovett

Slides with speakers' notes from a presentation at the 2017 Digital Commons New England User Group Meeting, which took place on July 28, 2017 at the Albert Sherman Center, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA.

Additional files include slides without speakers' notes, speakers' notes, program proposal, and meeting schedule.

Also posted at: http://escholarship.umassmed.edu/neirug/2017/program/13/.


Institutional Repositories And Academic Social Networks: Competition Or Complement? A Study Of Open Access Policy Compliance Vs. Researchgate Participation, Julia A. Lovett, Andrée J. Rathemacher, Divana Boukari, Corey Lang Aug 2017

Institutional Repositories And Academic Social Networks: Competition Or Complement? A Study Of Open Access Policy Compliance Vs. Researchgate Participation, Julia A. Lovett, Andrée J. Rathemacher, Divana Boukari, Corey Lang

Julia Lovett

INTRODUCTION The popularity of academic social networks like ResearchGate and Academia.edu indicates that scholars want to share their work, yet for universities with open access (OA) policies, these sites may be competing with institutional repositories (IRs) for content. This article seeks to reveal researcher practices, attitudes, and motivations around uploading their work to ResearchGate and complying with an institutional OA Policy through a study of faculty at the University of Rhode Island (URI). METHODS We conducted a population study to examine the participation by 558 full-time URI faculty members in the OA Policy and ResearchGate followed by a survey of …


Open Access And Closed Minds? Collaborating Across Campus To Help Faculty Understand Changing Scholarly Communication Models, Elizabeth Price, Leslie Engelson, Candace K. Vance, Rebecca Richardson, Jeffrey Henry Aug 2017

Open Access And Closed Minds? Collaborating Across Campus To Help Faculty Understand Changing Scholarly Communication Models, Elizabeth Price, Leslie Engelson, Candace K. Vance, Rebecca Richardson, Jeffrey Henry

Leslie Engelson

This chapter highlights the efforts of a team of librarians at Murray State University to help the university faculty members understand the Open Access publishing environment.


Open Access And Closed Minds? Collaborating Across Campus To Help Faculty Understand Changing Scholarly Communication Models, Elizabeth Price, Leslie Engelson, Candace K. Vance, Rebecca Richardson, Jeffrey Henry Jul 2017

Open Access And Closed Minds? Collaborating Across Campus To Help Faculty Understand Changing Scholarly Communication Models, Elizabeth Price, Leslie Engelson, Candace K. Vance, Rebecca Richardson, Jeffrey Henry

Candace K. Vance

This chapter highlights the efforts of a team of librarians at Murray State University to help the university faculty members understand the Open Access publishing environment.


Open Access And Closed Minds? Collaborating Across Campus To Help Faculty Understand Changing Scholarly Communication Models, Elizabeth Price, Leslie Engelson, Candace K. Vance, Rebecca Richardson, Jeffrey Henry Jun 2017

Open Access And Closed Minds? Collaborating Across Campus To Help Faculty Understand Changing Scholarly Communication Models, Elizabeth Price, Leslie Engelson, Candace K. Vance, Rebecca Richardson, Jeffrey Henry

Jeffrey Henry

This chapter highlights the efforts of a team of librarians at Murray State University to help the university faculty members understand the Open Access publishing environment.


How Automated Workflows Helped Us Ingest 600 Faculty Publications In Three Months In Lmu’S Institutional Repository!, Shilpa Rele, Jessea Young May 2017

How Automated Workflows Helped Us Ingest 600 Faculty Publications In Three Months In Lmu’S Institutional Repository!, Shilpa Rele, Jessea Young

Jessea Young

Conducting copyright clearance and ingesting appropriate versions of faculty publications can be a labor intensive and time consuming process. At Loyola Marymount University (LMU), a medium-size, private institution, the Digital Library Program (DLP) had been conducting copyright clearance one publication at a time. This meant that it took an enormous amount of time from start to finish to review and process the list of publications on a given faculty member’s CV. In October 2016, the Digital Program Librarian learned about the automated workflow developed by librarians at University of North Texas and decided to give it a try. At this …


Using Automated Workflows To Grow Your Institutional Repository, Shilpa Rele, Jessea Young May 2017

Using Automated Workflows To Grow Your Institutional Repository, Shilpa Rele, Jessea Young

Jessea Young

Conducting copyright clearance and ingesting appropriate versions of faculty publications can be a labor intensive and time consuming process. At Loyola Marymount University (LMU), a medium-size, private institution, the Digital Library Program (DLP) began exploring and experimenting with automated processes to manage copyright clearance and ingest workflows with regards to faculty publications. The goal of such experimentation was to increase efficiency in our processes to ingest more faculty publications in LMU's institutional repository. In this lightening talk, we highlight our workflows and tools used to manage the automated workflows, some of the issues and challenges we experienced during this exploratory …