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The Importance Of Digitization In Teaching-Oriented University And College Libraries, Craighton T. Hippenhammer Dec 2013

The Importance Of Digitization In Teaching-Oriented University And College Libraries, Craighton T. Hippenhammer

Faculty Scholarship – Library Science

An increasing number of university and college libraries have started digitization programs and there are good reasons why they are doing so. First, we are in the middle of revolutionary change as to how ideas get published and distributed. Over 50 percent of scholarly publishing has gone digital and over 20 percent has gone open access. Governments worldwide are beginning to require tax-supported research be published in open access venues. Secondly, it is imperative that they increase their Archives’ digital presence. Preserving institutional histories is currently being lost because of the entirely digital way academics now communicate and many archives …


Librarians As Advocates For Scholarly Authors: A Presentation And A Dramatization, Sue Ann Gardner Oct 2013

Librarians As Advocates For Scholarly Authors: A Presentation And A Dramatization, Sue Ann Gardner

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Conference Presentations and Speeches

Scholarly authors today are faced with unprecedented choices and, paradoxically, increasing barriers to publication. For example, the author-pays financial model of funding open access (also sometimes called Gold OA) is one of many such innovations that thwart authors who are not currently Federally funded or otherwise sponsored. As academic librarians, we need to be aware of the scholarly publishing infrastructure so we can advise authors how to make decisions about where to publish, what terms to agree to, and how to best leverage their written scholarly output.

Regarding the scholarly publishing financial market, I will describe how, effectively, the “tail …


Heard On The Net: It’S A Small World After All: Traveling Beyond The Viewpoint Of American Exceptionalism To The Rise Of The Author, Jill Emery Oct 2013

Heard On The Net: It’S A Small World After All: Traveling Beyond The Viewpoint Of American Exceptionalism To The Rise Of The Author, Jill Emery

Library Faculty Publications and Presentations

This column explores how scholarly publishing is changing and becoming a more international marketplace filled with new opportunities and new pitfalls.


Love Your Keyboard! Professional Writing For Librarians, Emily Ford, Kim Leeder Aug 2013

Love Your Keyboard! Professional Writing For Librarians, Emily Ford, Kim Leeder

Library Faculty Publications and Presentations

Participants of the session engaged in the inquiry process as focused in 4 areas of librarianship: Public Services & Programming; Teaching & Learning; Leadership & Management; Collections & Technical Services. Additionally, the workshop moderators engaged in the inquiry process regarding Publishing in Librarianship. The following are snapshots of the brainstorming that took place.


Mining For Gold: Identifying The Librarians' Toolkit For Managing Hybrid Open Access: Based On A Paper Presented At The 36th Uksg Annual Conference, Bournemouth, April 2013, Jill Emery Jul 2013

Mining For Gold: Identifying The Librarians' Toolkit For Managing Hybrid Open Access: Based On A Paper Presented At The 36th Uksg Annual Conference, Bournemouth, April 2013, Jill Emery

Library Faculty Publications and Presentations

In 2012, the author and colleagues surveyed eight publishers that had been involved with the Publishing and the Ecology of European Research (PEER) project to learn about the state of hybrid journal publishing. At the same time, one of the key questions asked to a panel of librarians at the International Association of Scientific, Technical & Medical Publishers May 2012 Meeting was what role librarians would play if scholarly publishing shortly went open access (OA) across the board? From the survey of the market, and the rapid OA developments in the UK and EU that include hybrid OA, a picture …


Scientific Publishing: Where Are We, And Where Are We Going? From An Academic Library’S Point Of View, Marianne A. Buehler Jun 2013

Scientific Publishing: Where Are We, And Where Are We Going? From An Academic Library’S Point Of View, Marianne A. Buehler

American Association for the Advancement of Science Pacific Conference

Academic Library Collection Development Situation

  • Mid-1980s -- current: Escalating journal subscription costs.
  • 2000: Enter a new paradigm: The institutional repository
  • Open access to research university repositories.
  • Faculty article deposits: goal to enable open scholarship—a winding road…
  • ~2008: E-serials’ cuts, book purchasing cuts, flat budgets.


Library As Open Access Publisher: An Overview For Technical Service Librarians, Adrian K. Ho, Mary Beth Thomson May 2013

Library As Open Access Publisher: An Overview For Technical Service Librarians, Adrian K. Ho, Mary Beth Thomson

Adrian K. Ho

There is a growing trend within libraries to provide publishing services in direct support of open access to scholarly communication. Technical service librarians have a long and rich history of acquiring, providing access to and preserving a variety of resources from publishers, societies, governments and individuals. This session will provide an overview of the activities, processes, rights issues, and systems involved in a library published or hosted open access journal. Adrian Ho, Director of Digital Scholarship, and Mary Beth Thomson, Associate Dean for Collections, Digital Scholarship, and Technical Services for the University of Kentucky Libraries will share their experiences with …


Flying Solo, Economy Or Business Class Through Collections In The Cloud, Christine N. Turner May 2013

Flying Solo, Economy Or Business Class Through Collections In The Cloud, Christine N. Turner

Christine Turner

No abstract provided.


Becoming A Writer-Librarian, Emily Ford May 2013

Becoming A Writer-Librarian, Emily Ford

Library Faculty Publications and Presentations

This article offers a reflection on my pursuit to become a writer-librarian. In addition to participating in a professional writing program at my institution, in November of 2012 I participated in Academic Writing Month and Digital Writing Month. Through these immersive experiences I worked to figure out who is my writerly librarian self and discovered some tools and techniques to help me along the way. This article begins with an explanation of Academic Writing Month and Digital Writing Month, discusses writing in Library and Information Science, and then offers more reflection on my discoveries as I tried to become a …


Halfway Open Or Halfway Shut?: Oa Hybrid Journals In Academia, Robin Champieux, Jill Emery, Kasia Stasik Apr 2013

Halfway Open Or Halfway Shut?: Oa Hybrid Journals In Academia, Robin Champieux, Jill Emery, Kasia Stasik

Library Faculty Publications and Presentations

This panel session asks why is hybrid open access important? Scholarly publishers have responded to the OA movement by offering authors the choice of publishing their articles as Open Access (using an author pays funding mechanism) in subscription journals. The study surveys eight publishers to explore a number of questions about the mechanics, implementation, price impacts, and author tracking of this model; and investigates the uptake at two research institutions, with one operating in a NIH Public Access Policy environment.


Mining For Gold: Identifying The Librarian's Toolkit For Managing Hybrid Oa, Jill Emery Apr 2013

Mining For Gold: Identifying The Librarian's Toolkit For Managing Hybrid Oa, Jill Emery

Library Faculty Publications and Presentations

This plenary presentation was given on April 8 at UKSG Conference 2013 and discusses the following points: (1.) Open access provision does not mean that access is provided with absolutely no cost associated with it. Management of open access publishing is an investment that libraries are making (2.) Open access publishing whether it is done in your library or outside of it still needs to be organized and managed. (3.) Open access within your institution is an enterprise-wide endeavor and this is especially true within the library itself. Whatever you do, do not create another silo of management. The video …


Digital Media And Open Access: A Solution For Readers And Writers, Andrée Rathemacher Mar 2013

Digital Media And Open Access: A Solution For Readers And Writers, Andrée Rathemacher

Technical Services Faculty Presentations

Powerpoint presentation for a seminar, "Digital Media and Open Access: A Solution for Readers and Writers." The seminar was sponsored by the Harrington School of Communication and Media and co-sponsored by the University Libraries at the University of Rhode Island. It took place on March 26, 2013.


The Brave New World Of Open Access & Creative Commons: A Humanistic Experiment In Mathematical Publishing, Gizem Karaali Jan 2013

The Brave New World Of Open Access & Creative Commons: A Humanistic Experiment In Mathematical Publishing, Gizem Karaali

Pomona Faculty Publications and Research

In January 2011 the Journal of Humanistic Mathematics (JHM) published its first issue. JHM (http://scholarship.claremont.edu/jhm) is an online-only, peer-reviewed, open-access journal which has passed the all important ten-thousand-download barrier in its first anniversary. In order to remain faithful to the fundamental principles of open access, JHM uses Creative Commons licensing, where authors retain copyright of their work, but others are free to reuse them (with proper attribution). In this note I share and reflect upon our experience with open access and Creative Commons.


Open Access To Scholarly Articles: The Very Basics, Jill Cirasella Jan 2013

Open Access To Scholarly Articles: The Very Basics, Jill Cirasella

Open Educational Resources

This handout provides a brief overview of open access to scholarly literature. It looks at the problems with traditional journal publishing, the promise of open access as a solution, and the different paths to open access.


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/


Scholarly Communications And The Role Of The Liberal Arts College Library, Diane J. Graves Jan 2013

Scholarly Communications And The Role Of The Liberal Arts College Library, Diane J. Graves

Library Faculty Research

No abstract provided.


Open Access To Scholarly Articles: Good Policies Ensure Good Practices, Jill Cirasella Jan 2013

Open Access To Scholarly Articles: Good Policies Ensure Good Practices, Jill Cirasella

Publications and Research

Open access (OA) to scholarly journal articles is now widely accepted as a good thing. However, it will not become the norm without policies promoting openness. This presentation looks at policies that ensure that hundreds of thousands of articles become OA every year.


Open Access To Scholarly Literature: Which Side Are You On?, Jill Cirasella Jan 2013

Open Access To Scholarly Literature: Which Side Are You On?, Jill Cirasella

Publications and Research

Open access (OA) to scholarly literature recently hit a major milestone: Half of all research articles published become open access, either immediately or after an embargo period. Are the articles you read among them? What about the articles you write? Are the journals to which you submit open-access friendly? What about the journals for which you peer review? Are there any reasons why the public should not have access to the results of taxpayer-funded research?

This presentation explains the motivation for OA, describes the details of OA, and differentiates between publishing in open access journals (“gold” OA) and self-archiving works …


Three Essays In Health Economics And Labor Economics, Lei Li Jan 2013

Three Essays In Health Economics And Labor Economics, Lei Li

Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)

There are three essays in this dissertation. The first two explore the effect of maternal employment on family well being. The third essay explores the effect of academic department quality on publication productivity.