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Behind The Wall: An Exploration Of Public Access To Research Articles In Social Work Journals, Kimberly D. Pendell

Library Faculty Publications and Presentations

Despite implicit and explicit expectations that research inform their practice, social workers are unlikely to have access to published research articles. The traditional publishing model does not support public access (i.e., no publisher paywall barrier) to scholarly journals. Newer models of publishing allow free access to research including open access publishing and deposit of scholarship in institutional or disciplinary repositories. This study examined public access to articles in the top 25 social work journals. A random sample of article citations from a total of 1,587 was assessed, with the result that 52% of citations had no full-text access. Of the …

Considering Developmental Peer Review, Wendi Arant Kaspar, Sarah Hare, Cara Evanson, Emily Ford

Library Faculty Publications and Presentations

This editorial is a collaborative discussion of College & Research Libraries’ open peer review experiment, representing the unique perspectives and voices of those playing roles.

What Collaboration Means To Me: Partnership In Praxis, Rhiannon M. Cates

Library Faculty Publications and Presentations

This column offers a reflective and theoretical perspective on the potential of collaboration to function as a tool to resist replicating dynamics of oppression and inequity, and as a strategy to challenge negative aspects of institutional climates and culture in library work.

What Collaboration Means To Us, Jill Emery, Michael Levine-Clark

Library Faculty Publications and Presentations

Editorial outlining what collaboration means to the journal editors.

Open Textbooks/Oers, Amy Hofer

Northwest IR User Group

What are the possible functions of an IR in an OER initiative (from the expected to the creative)? What is the best role for your IR in your institution's OER program, and how far are you from achieving that? In this discussion we'll consider IRs alongside OER and disciplinary repositories in order to determine next steps that you can take to promote your IR's role in OER work on your campus

Journals Makeover! Tips And Tricks To Help Your Editors Take Their Journals To The Next Level, Promita Chatterji

Northwest IR User Group

Join Promita Chatterji of bepress in an interactive workshop geared towards helping you ramp up your publishing programs. Launching a publishing program is a feat in and of itself. Once journals are up and running however, many libraries find themselves wondering about next steps. Perhaps your editors are concerned with being accepted in journal indexes, perhaps they would like to attract better quality submissions or broaden readership? What kinds of resources and advice can you provide to support journal performance? Promita will share resources and lead a discussion addressing these concerns. Attendees will identify journal goals, identify challenges, and share …

Oer In An Institutional Repository, Jane Sandberg

Northwest IR User Group

Finding and evaluating existing open educational resources (OER) offer particular challenges to faculty and librarians. The OER discovery process is distributed across several repositories and search engines. OER searches tend to include a variety of different learning objects presented in a wide range of formats, which can be difficult to evaluate and compare.

This lightning talk will discuss the steps that Linn-Benton Community College took to improve the discovery process for open courses in its institutional repository. It will discuss the steps we took to include these courses in a popular OER search tool and facilitate the evaluation process by …

Celebrating Open Education Week, Michele Gibney

Northwest IR User Group

Open Education (OE) Week offers a chance to get faculty and students engaged in what OE might mean for them in the classroom. In 2018 at University of the Pacific, we offered several types of programming during the week of March 5-9 geared towards both faculty and students. We'll share what succeeded and what fell flat along with recommendations for future OE Week events.

Pacific's 2018 OE Week events: https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/oe-week/

Transform Your Ir Branding By Leveraging University Resources, Maura Valentino

Northwest IR User Group

Learn how Central Washington University’s Brooks Library is improving IR use and visibility by leveraging university graphic design and other resources. Explore the ways in which IR outreach materials are being redesigned to use campus-wide resources and programs including The Wildcat Way, a university-wide commitment to service excellence. Discover how your IR outreach can benefit from the cost savings and improved design standards available when you work closely with your university partners.

What's New And What's Coming From Bepress, Greg Seymour

Northwest IR User Group

Join bepress’s Greg Seymour for highlights of recent and upcoming developments from bepress with a special focus on PlumX Metrics on Digital Commons and other new tools to help you share research impact around campus.

Implementing A Campus-Wide Oer Publishing Platform At Uc Berkeley, Maria Gould

Northwest IR User Group

In April 2018, the UC Berkeley Library launched a campus-wide OER publishing platform to provide faculty, staff, and students with a simple and centralized portal for creating and finding OERs and other online works. Originating out of a multi-pronged approach to support and encourage course content affordability measures on campus, the publishing platform came about to address a specific need: while the Library had been incentivizing OER use through grants to faculty, we realized that we lacked an easy way to help people create them. In this presentation, I will share details and insights from our process so that other …

Elsevier, American Chemical Society And Researchgate Inspire Authors' Rights Training, Sue Kunda

Northwest IR User Group

ResearchGate’s recent legal woes regarding publishing giants like Elsevier and American Chemical Society have caught the attention of academic authors, giving open access champions a unique opportunity to engage with University researchers and scientists. This session will describe a workshop for authors’ rights training that incorporates ResearchGate into discussions of copyright (including the use of SHERPA/RoMEO), licensing and copyright transfer negotiation. The workshop also entails a discussion of the perks of participating in both ResearchGate and non-commercial repositories by exploring how the services complement one another.

Attendees of this presentation will come away with ideas for designing their own authors’ …

Sustaining Institutional Repositories: Breaking The Mold To Add Value, Karen Bjork, Ryan Otto, Rebel Cummings-Sauls

Library Faculty Publications and Presentations

Librarians at Kansas State University and Portland State University recognized a need to document and showcase a more complete view of the digital scholarship from their institution’s faculty, staff, and students; giving each library the ability to elevate the academic research and creative output being produced by their community. The proposed expansion of representation would be accomplished through the addition of metadata only (non full text) records in their institutional repositories (IR), the inclusion of which may run counter to the archetype of open access (OA) IR. The need to provide a more comprehensive view of scholarly activity has been …

How Green Is Our Valley?: Five-Year Study Of Selected Lis Journals From Taylor & Francis For Green Deposit Of Articles, Jill Emery

Library Faculty Publications and Presentations

This study reviews content from five different library and information science journals: Behavioral & Social Sciences Librarian, Collection Management, College & Undergraduate Libraries, Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship and Journal of Library Administration over a five-year period from 2012–2016 to investigate the green deposit rate. Starting in 2011, Taylor & Francis, the publisher of these journals, waived the green deposit embargo for library and information science, heritage and archival content, which allows for immediate deposit of articles in these fields. The review looks at research articles and standing columns over the five years from these five journals to see if …

Scholarship As An Open Conversation: Using Open Peer Review In Library Instruction, Emily Ford

Library Faculty Publications and Presentations

This article explores the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy’s frame, Scholarship as a Conversation. This frame asserts that information literate students have the disposition, skills, and knowledge to recognize and participate in disciplinary scholarly conversations. By investigating the peer-review process as part of scholarly conversations, this article provides a brief literature review on peer review in information literacy instruction, and argues that by using open peer review (OPR) models for teaching, library workers can allow students to gain a deeper understanding of scholarly conversations. OPR affords students the ability to begin dismantling the systemic oppression that blinded peer review and …

Terms Redefined: Developing The Combination Of Electronic Resource Management With Open Access Workflows, Jill Emery, Graham Stone, Peter Mccracken

Library Faculty Publications and Presentations

While many librarians have developed mechanisms and structures for managing local scholarship separate from their standard resource management practices, the intersection of the two content streams is occurring at many institutions.

During the past decade, the presenters have dedicated themselves to capturing best practices of electronic resource management and mapping out paths for creating open access workflows. Join them for a lively discussion and interactive session where they outline ways to bring these two initiatives together and identify the teams needed.

Pdxscholar Annual Report 2017, Karen Bjork, Sherry Buchanan, David Coate, Bertrand Robinson, Stacey Schlatter

Library Faculty Publications and Presentations

This report details the seventh year of operation for PDXScholar, Portland State University's institutional repository, as well as the growth of Portland State University Library's publishing services. The report covers the period between January 1, 2017 and December 31, 2017.

Bloggership Part Two: A Survey Of Academic Librarians, Arthur Hendricks

Library Faculty Publications and Presentations

In 2009, the author sent a link to a questionnaire to several email lists, inviting academic librarians to answer a short survey regarding whether blogging should count as scholarship. The author wondered if, seven years later, blogs had gained more traction as a viable form of scholarship, or whether interest in blogging was waning. A similar survey was distributed to several email lists again.

To see whether there has been a change in how blogging counts as scholarship or a creative activity in academic promotion and tenure, the author sent a link to a questionnaire to several e-mail lists, inviting …

Uksg: Bigger, Better, And Open In 2018, Jill Emery

Library Faculty Publications and Presentations

Overview of the UKSG conference held in Glasgow, Scotland on April 9-11, 2018.