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Erau Scholarly Commons, July 1, 2014-June 30, 2015, Anne M. Casey, Chip Wolfe, Brittany Blanchard Dec 2015

Erau Scholarly Commons, July 1, 2014-June 30, 2015, Anne M. Casey, Chip Wolfe, Brittany Blanchard

Anne Marie Casey

Scholarly Commons continued to grow in 2014-2015, not only in content added and downloads, but in maturity of the process. At the beginning of the second year, many of the early challenges resolved as teams that oversee the administration and new development began to understand the system and each other’s strengths. Members of the university community also developed a better understanding of Scholarly Commons and its value to many aspects of the research and academic mission. In particular, various departments turned to Scholarly Commons to host conferences and events. Also, members of the Oversight Team met with representatives of Sponsored …


Institutional Repositories For Data Management, Michele Gibney Nov 2015

Institutional Repositories For Data Management, Michele Gibney

Michele Gibney

• Introduction to Institutional Repositories (IRs) / NSUWorks • Big Data in IRs • IRs - Options & Examples • DEEPEND Project Demo


Open Access Challenge, Amy Dailey, Janelle Wertzberger Nov 2015

Open Access Challenge, Amy Dailey, Janelle Wertzberger

Janelle Wertzberger

This class activity is designed to help health sciences students understand challenges to accessing public health information in a variety of settings. The exercise was created for students in Prof. Dailey’s Global Health class (HS 322) at Gettysburg College in Fall 2015. The activity, as well as notes for instructors considering using this exercise, are both shared here.


Open Your Research Without Opening Your Wallet, Janelle L. Wertzberger Nov 2015

Open Your Research Without Opening Your Wallet, Janelle L. Wertzberger

Janelle Wertzberger

Open scholarship promotes sharing and collaboration, increases readership, and amplifies impact. It is gaining traction as institutions, professional associations, and funding agencies encourage or require broad sharing of research results. Yet many authors believe that the only way to open their work is to pay publishers thousands of dollars for the privilege. Luckily for us, that just isn’t the case. Come hear about a range of ways to open your research without paying for the privilege! Lunch provided. (Limited seating, RSVP to jwertzbe@gettysburg.edu)


A Small Library Launches A Publishing Program, Janelle Wertzberger Nov 2015

A Small Library Launches A Publishing Program, Janelle Wertzberger

Janelle Wertzberger

Presented at the 2015 Library Publishing Forum, Portland, OR, March 29-30, 2015.


Scholarly Communications Report On Activities 2014-15, Janelle Wertzberger Nov 2015

Scholarly Communications Report On Activities 2014-15, Janelle Wertzberger

Janelle Wertzberger

2014-15 annual report for Scholarly Communications work at Musselman Library, including Gettysburg College's institutional repository, The Cupola: Scholarship at Gettysburg College. Covers June 2014-May 2015.


Big Data In Nsuworks, Michele Gibney, Keri Baker Nov 2015

Big Data In Nsuworks, Michele Gibney, Keri Baker

Keri Baker

Join librarians Michele Gibney and Keri Baker as they present an ongoing NSU project storing all of its big data research utilizing NSUWorks, our institutional repository.


Banging Our Heads To The Music And On The Walls: First Year Ir Adventures, Michele Gibney, Jaime M. Goldman, Keri Baker Nov 2015

Banging Our Heads To The Music And On The Walls: First Year Ir Adventures, Michele Gibney, Jaime M. Goldman, Keri Baker

Keri Baker

Creating an Institutional Repository from scratch creates a multitude of both opportunities and pitfalls in establishment of workflow, content creation, outreach and marketing policies, and stakeholder support. Nova Southeastern University’s Digital Commons based repository, NSUWorks, completed its first year in February 2015. During this session, the triumphs and tribulations of the first year will be discussed, along with future plans in order to give attendees a glimpse into one particular IR experience. Archival collection digitization, outreach/marketing, journal/book publishing, reporting tools, and collection development will also be covered. Spotify Playlist.


2015 Ecommons And Data Management Bookmark, Nichole Rustad, Maureen E. Schlangen Oct 2015

2015 Ecommons And Data Management Bookmark, Nichole Rustad, Maureen E. Schlangen

Maureen E. Schlangen

This bookmark-sized promotional piece, inspired by a similar work promoting the institutional repository at the University of Pennsylvania, promotes open-access faculty scholarship in the University of Dayton's Digital Commons repository, eCommons, as well as the University Libraries' data management consulting services. During Open Access Week (Oct. 19-23, 2015), library liaisons, repository staff and graduate school administrators distributed the bookmarks at three campus locations along with cookies decorated with the OA "unlocked" logo. Access services librarians also included the bookmark with all "Roesch2U" faculty deliveries during Open Access Week.


Library Publishing Toolkit - Introduction Chapter, Cyril Oberlander Oct 2015

Library Publishing Toolkit - Introduction Chapter, Cyril Oberlander

Cyril Oberlander

The Library Publishing Toolkit looks at the broad and varied landscape of library publishing through discussions, case studies, and shared resources. From supporting writers and authors in the public library setting to hosting open access journals and books, this collection examines opportunities for libraries to leverage their position and resources to create and provide access to content.


Uk Communications Provider Consumer Switching Experience Report 2015, Lissa Coffey Oct 2015

Uk Communications Provider Consumer Switching Experience Report 2015, Lissa Coffey

LissaCoffey

☑The research examined these experiences at various key stages in the switching journey, covering initial engagement with the market, assessment of switching options, decision-making on whether to switch or not, and completion among those who decided to switch. The research investigated consumer experiences at these stages in the pay TV, fixed landline, fixed broadband and mobile markets, with a particular focus on ☑ Services(UK) Analyzed: Sky - BT - Vodafone - EE ☑ Research Interests: Telecommunications Engineering, Communication, Media Studies, Wireless Communications, Community Engagement & Participation, windows updater software Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering, Information Communication Technology, Telecommunication, Electronics and communication, …


Who’S Talking About (And Citing) Me? Tracking Your Work Using Databases, Google, Web Of Knowledge, And Altmetrics Tools, Amanda Izenstark, Julia Lovett, Andrée Rathemacher Oct 2015

Who’S Talking About (And Citing) Me? Tracking Your Work Using Databases, Google, Web Of Knowledge, And Altmetrics Tools, Amanda Izenstark, Julia Lovett, Andrée Rathemacher

Julia Lovett

Slides from a presentation, "Who's Talking About (and Citing) Me? Tracking Your Work using Databases, Google, Web of Knowledge, and Altmetrics Tools," offered at the University of Rhode Island Libraries on April 22 and April 23, 2015.

"Stop using the impact factor as a measure of the value of your research. There are better ways. In this hands-on session find out about tools that can help you learn how your work is being received, used, and disseminated across scholarly platforms and social media networks."

Part of the University Libraries' Search Savvy Seminar series.


Books Are Dead: Long Live Books!, Douglas Pepper, Giuseppina D'Agostino Oct 2015

Books Are Dead: Long Live Books!, Douglas Pepper, Giuseppina D'Agostino

Giuseppina D'Agostino

Douglas Pepper, VP at Random House Canada and Publisher at Signal/McClelland & Stewart, speaks about the publishing industry and the future of books and reading.


Open Access Week 2015 Poster #2, Richard James Sep 2015

Open Access Week 2015 Poster #2, Richard James

Richard James

No abstract provided.


Campus Open Access Funds: Experiences Of The Ku “One University” Open Access Author Fund, Rachel Gyore, Allison C. Reeve, Crystal Cameron-Vedros, Deborah Ludwig, Ada Emmett Sep 2015

Campus Open Access Funds: Experiences Of The Ku “One University” Open Access Author Fund, Rachel Gyore, Allison C. Reeve, Crystal Cameron-Vedros, Deborah Ludwig, Ada Emmett

Deborah M. Ludwig

INTRODUCTION: In the summer of 2012, librarians from the Lawrence and Kansas City campuses of the University of Kansas (KU) proposed the creation of a KU “One University” Open Access Fund (OA Author Fund) to support open access publishing for its faculty, students, and staff. KU is a major public research and teaching institution of 28,000 students and 2,600 faculty on five campuses (Lawrence, Kansas City, Overland Park, Wichita, and Salina) (http://ku.edu/about), and has been a leader in open access initiatives for many years. A working group of librarians came together to create and implement a pilot project to explore …


Content, Credibility, And Readership: Putting Your Institutional Repository On The Map, Maureen E. Schlangen Sep 2015

Content, Credibility, And Readership: Putting Your Institutional Repository On The Map, Maureen E. Schlangen

Maureen E. Schlangen

Open-access institutional repositories have become a reliable and stable medium for sharing scholarly work, advancing research, and elevating an institution’s profile. However, it takes time and effective marketing to gather content, build the repository’s credibility, and attract readership. Here, a handful of successful repository managers share what they have learned from the launch and growth of their repositories.


Early Days With An Ir: Identifying And Adding Content, Michele Gibney Sep 2015

Early Days With An Ir: Identifying And Adding Content, Michele Gibney

Michele Gibney

When I started as an IR manager at Nova Southeastern University (September 2014), the IR had been live for 6 months and one of the in process pilot projects was a journal with 219 back issues dating to 1990. The journal was still on the demonstration site when I started. In this presentation I will discuss the ways in which I interacted with the journal staff, the full migration of all issues and the ensuing projects that have developed due to the primary editor’s interest. These include a conference, book publishing and four additional journals. One of the most important …


Big Data In Nsuworks, Michele Gibney, Keri Baker Sep 2015

Big Data In Nsuworks, Michele Gibney, Keri Baker

Michele Gibney

Join librarians Michele Gibney and Keri Baker as they present an ongoing NSU project storing all of its big data research utilizing NSUWorks, our institutional repository.


Promoting Yourself, Promoting Your Research, Becka Rich, Michele Gibney Sep 2015

Promoting Yourself, Promoting Your Research, Becka Rich, Michele Gibney

Michele Gibney

NSU librarians are offering this workshop for you to learn the ins and outs of promoting yourself and your research on SSRN, NSUWorks, SelectedWorks, and social networks like ResearchGate.


Nsuworks Annual Report 2014-2015, Michele Gibney Sep 2015

Nsuworks Annual Report 2014-2015, Michele Gibney

Michele Gibney

In 2014 Nova Southeastern University celebrated its 50th. In conjunction with the anniversary, the NSU Libraries determined a need to preserve the past, present and future of the university by creating a campus wide repository for all scholarship, creative work, and historical materials produced by the university. NSUWorks is a part of the NSU Libraries’ contribution to the university’s ongoing growth and success as an internationally recognized research institution. NSUWorks was launched at the Dean’s Meeting on November 2014, and reached its one year anniversary at the end of February 2015. The NSUWorks Annual Report covers the period of February …


Banging Our Heads To The Music And On The Walls: First Year Ir Adventures, Michele Gibney, Jaime M. Goldman, Keri Baker Sep 2015

Banging Our Heads To The Music And On The Walls: First Year Ir Adventures, Michele Gibney, Jaime M. Goldman, Keri Baker

Michele Gibney

Creating an Institutional Repository from scratch creates a multitude of both opportunities and pitfalls in establishment of workflow, content creation, outreach and marketing policies, and stakeholder support. Nova Southeastern University’s Digital Commons based repository, NSUWorks, completed its first year in February 2015. During this session, the triumphs and tribulations of the first year will be discussed, along with future plans in order to give attendees a glimpse into one particular IR experience. Archival collection digitization, outreach/marketing, journal/book publishing, reporting tools, and collection development will also be covered. Spotify Playlist.


Using Built-In Features, Stephanie Gaskins, Elizabeth Richardson Aug 2015

Using Built-In Features, Stephanie Gaskins, Elizabeth Richardson

Elizabeth A Richardson

At Kent State, we work on Digital Commons all times of day so communication is important. We utilize many of bepress’s built-in features to facilitate this. Based on our conversations with other Digital Commons institutional repository managers, many of Digital Commons’ built-in features are not used or not used to their fullest potential. We are moving toward taking full advantage of built-in features in our workflow and hope to push beyond what is available and to suggest enhancements from bepress. We aim to use built-in features for training, internal communication within our team, external communication with authors and rights holders, …


New Workflows For Research Publications And Repository At Smu, Pin Pin Yeo Aug 2015

New Workflows For Research Publications And Repository At Smu, Pin Pin Yeo

YEO Pin Pin

The Singapore Management University started implementing a new solution for Integrated Research Information System (IRIS) in April 2014. Project background and some success factors is covered. IRIS would replace existing silo in-house systems. The key objective of IRIS is to have one system that takes care of ethics, research project management, grant management, publications and reporting. During the IRIS project implementation, the tasks performed included mapping of existing fields to the new IRIS and loading of existing data to IRIS test system. New workflows and some re-configuration of the default system were proposed.


The Life Of Pi: A Paper Born In Smu: Skit On Publishing, Open Access, Research Data, Pin Pin Yeo Aug 2015

The Life Of Pi: A Paper Born In Smu: Skit On Publishing, Open Access, Research Data, Pin Pin Yeo

YEO Pin Pin

The SMU librarians performed a skit in celebration of Open Access Week. The skit entitled "The Life of Pi: A Paper Born in SMU" tells the story of an original manuscript’s journey to get accepted in a journal, finally getting published in an open access journal and depositing an appropriate version in the institutional repository. The Library also wanted the research data to be deposited. Done with Singapore flavour using some Singlish, the skit was performed on 28 October at a function for faculty in the Li Ka Shing Library at the Singapore Management University. Cast: Rajendra Munoo, Tamera Hanken, …


Introduction And Opening Remarks, Ann Connolly Jul 2015

Introduction And Opening Remarks, Ann Connolly

Ann Connolly

No abstract provided.


The Role Of Irs In Open Access, Ann Connolly Jul 2015

The Role Of Irs In Open Access, Ann Connolly

Ann Connolly

No abstract provided.


Role Of Institutional Repositories In The Open Access Movement, Ann Connolly Jul 2015

Role Of Institutional Repositories In The Open Access Movement, Ann Connolly

Ann Connolly

Ann Connolly discusses the role of institutional repositories in open access during the Wright State University/Cleveland State University Joint Open Access Symposium.


Library As Publisher: A New Initiative For Rusa?, Elizabeth Boatright, Crystal Boyce, Sarah Espinosa, Angela Kent, Rebecca Marrall Jun 2015

Library As Publisher: A New Initiative For Rusa?, Elizabeth Boatright, Crystal Boyce, Sarah Espinosa, Angela Kent, Rebecca Marrall

Crystal Boyce

This report represents the work of an Emerging Leaders (EL) Team tasked by the Reference and User Services Association (RUSA) Publications Committee to investigate whether RUSA should create resources for 21st-century reference and user services librarians interested in the concept of “library as publisher.” Within this report, readers will find a proposed definition of library publishing, the results of an environmental scan of support provided by library and affiliated professional associations, results of a survey gauging interest in library publishing services, and recommended next steps for RUSA.


A Financial Option For The Modern University Press, Thomas Bacher Jun 2015

A Financial Option For The Modern University Press, Thomas Bacher

Thomas Bacher

Harvard professor Yochai Benkler has written a number of papers on the prospect of peer production of information. The digital environment can provide an avenue for many disciplines to lower the system cost of information. Viewing scholarly information as a public good changes the nature of participation. In a smaller discipline like Cultural Anthropology, for example, could a decentralized, peer-run system alter the way constituents cooperate to produce openly-accessible, quality research and provide a template for other disciplines? In other words, can the academy maximize social technologies like crowdsourcing to create content by having interested parties donate money, time, and …


Celebration Of Brockport Faculty & Staff Scholarship : 2010-2014, Laura Dumuhosky, Kim Myers, Wendy S. Prince, Emily Goldsmith, Mary Jo Orzech Jun 2015

Celebration Of Brockport Faculty & Staff Scholarship : 2010-2014, Laura Dumuhosky, Kim Myers, Wendy S. Prince, Emily Goldsmith, Mary Jo Orzech

Kim Myers

Compiled by College at Brockport faculty member Laura Dumuhosky, and Professional staff members Kim Myers and Wendy Prince, with assistance from Library student staff member Emily Goldsmith. Foreward by Drake Library Director, Mary Jo Orzech.

"... [a bibliography that] represents over 500 publications from the faculty and staff of The College at Brockport during 2010-2014.... is not exhaustive, but is intended as a representative sample..."