Library and Information Science Commons^™

Open Access Challenge, Amy Dailey, Janelle Wertzberger

Open Access Week at Gettysburg College

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.

Outreach To Campus Administrators On Open Access Initiatives, Ryne Leuzinger, Jacqui Grallo

SJSU Open Access Conference

As librarians work to develop and support open access (OA) initiatives, it is essential that they communicate effectively with administrators, from the head of the library to the president or chancellor of their university. Librarians often find themselves at the nexus of OA initiatives and are well-positioned to bring together the interests of various units on campus and advocate for a given initiative to campus administration. In this presentation, which will be applicable to a broad range of higher education institutions, we will discuss effective practices and key takeaways from an open access initiative at CSUMB that focused on textbook …

Introducing “Cora,” The Community Of Online Research Assignments Repository, Susan G. Archambault, Lindsey Mclean

SJSU Open Access Conference

This session will introduce CORA (Community of Online Research Assignments), a pilot open access educational resource developed for faculty and librarians in higher education. Librarians at Loyola Marymount University (LMU) received a Statewide California Electronic Library Consortium (SCELC) Project Initiatives Fund grant to create an online open access repository of user contributed research and information literacy assignments targeted to SCELC institutions. This session will cover the timeline of events during the first year of development, ending with a demo of the live online prototype. LMU faculty provided input on the characteristics of effective research assignments and the desired features in …

The California Open Educational Resources Council: From Curation To Adoption, Katherine D. Harris, Diego Bonilla

SJSU Open Access Conference

California’s three public higher education systems (University of California, California State University, the California Community College System) enroll nearly 3 million undergraduate students and employ almost 100 thousand faculty. In 2012, the California State Legislature directed the three systems to create an online library of open educational resources to encourage the use of free or affordable textbooks and other materials throughout California’s public higher education system. Composed of faculty representatives from each of the three systems, the California Open Educational Resources Council (CAOERC) was formed and charged in January, 2014, with collecting, peer-reviewing, helping to curate, publicizing, and cultivating the …

Moving From Binders To Bytes: Processing, Digitizing, And Publishing A Paper-Based Archive To An Institutional Repository, Emily K. Chan, April M. Gilbert, Amanda L. Mellinger

SJSU Open Access Conference

At San Jose State University, a paper-based archive centering on library and information science history is being processed, organized, and uploaded onto ScholarWorks, the campus institutional repository. Prior to its digitization, the presenters grappled with many questions. What platform should be used to house the archive? What entry points would researchers expect in order to access the collection? What research purposes would this collection satisfy? The presenters will discuss their rationale for their decision-making in transferring 300 binders to an open access, digital format. Among the individuals who are involved in making this detail-rich collection openly accessible online and searchable …

Open Access And The Logic Of Collective Action, John Wenzler

SJSU Open Access Conference

In the digital age, academic libraries confront the dilemma of collective action. In the era of print, each library stored, organized and provided access to a collection of scholarly resources for researchers at a local institution. On an integrated electronic network, all of these tasks become shared endeavors. One copy of a journal article housed on an Internet server provides faster and more convenient access to the scholarly community than 1,000 printed copies scattered across the country. Thus, the work of maintaining the article and making it discoverable can be done by one organization for the entire community instead of …

Open Access & Copyright, Cindy Kristof

Ohio IR Day

Cindy Kristof, Head of Copyright and Document Services at Kent State University, Ohio, presented on the myths and facts of Open Access publishing.

Researcher Self-Submission Model For Data Repository: Challenges And Opportunities, Amy Koshoffer

Ohio IR Day

Amy Koshoffer, University of Cincinnati, discussed UC's self-submission model for their Institutional Repository, Scholar@UC.

Integrating A Scholar's Portal And Getting Started Videos, Eric Johnson

Ohio IR Day

Eric Johnson of Miami University, Ohio, described the processes and procedures follow for Miami's Institutional Repository, Scholarly Commons @ MU. Johnson also presented on videos created by the Miami University Libraries for Open Access Week.

Adding Syllabi To Our Institutional Repository: Exhibit, Anne Davies, Michelle Early, Alison Morgan

Ohio IR Day

Anne Davies, Michelle Early, and Alison Morgan of Xavier University presented on the decision to include syllabi in their Institutional Repository, and described the subsequent consequences.

Oberlin College's Open Access Policy, Alan Boyd

Ohio IR Day

Alan Boyd, Interim Director of Libraries at Oberlin College, OH, discussed his campus' Open Access Policy.

It Takes A University: Oer And The Portland State University Reducing Student Costs Initiative, Marilyn K. Moody

SJSU Open Access Conference

OER have a major role to play in student affordability efforts. Portland State University’s Reducing Student Costs Initiative is a broad-based effort to reduce student textbook and course materials costs. This presentation looks at the opportunities and challenges of involving stakeholders from across the campus in this initiative, including faculty, staff, students, administrators, donors, and external partners. OER related strategies of the Initiative, including plans for increasing OER use in courses and programs are described.

The Initiative’s work and implementation plans involving the adoption, use, and creation of OER include:

• Developing courses and programs that utilize OER, including online flexible …

Creating An Open Access Course Reserves (When An Oa Textbook Isn't Enough), Jessica Bell

SJSU Open Access Conference

The search for alternatives to high priced textbooks endures. The librarians at the MGH Institute of Health Professions, with the help of an IMLS Sparks! Ignition grant, decided to jump into the fray by creating the Open Access Course Reserves. It is a publicly available, curated repository that provides ready-made reading lists of free, copyright compliant (open access when possible), educational materials. The materials are selected to match typical syllabi and textbook contents and organized by discipline and course. The goal of the project is to create a place for faculty of any higher education course from anywhere in the …

Open Access – What’S New In The Arts & Humanities?, Scholarly Communications

Open Access Week at Gettysburg College

Learn about some of the newest open access publications and platforms designed to support the open sharing of humanities research. Join a discussion with librarian liaisons to arts and humanities departments about how Gettysburg faculty and the library are involved.

Open Access – What’S New In The Social Sciences?, Scholarly Communications

Open Access Week at Gettysburg College

Learn about some of the newest open access publications and platforms designed to support the open sharing of social science research. Join a discussion with librarian liaisons to social science and interdisciplinary departments about how Gettysburg faculty and the library are involved.

Virginia Open Education: The Z-Degree And Open Educational Resources At Tcc, Steve Litherland, Olivia Reinauer, Joy Yaeger

Open Access Week

No abstract provided.

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

Open Access Week at Gettysburg College

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)

Open Access – What’S New In The Sciences?, Scholarly Communications

Open Access Week at Gettysburg College

Learn about some of the newest open access publications and platforms designed to support and accelerate science research. Join a discussion with librarian liaisons to science departments about how Gettysburg faculty and the library are involved.

Schedule, College Of The Holy Cross

Open Access Week at Holy Cross

Poster used to promote events sponsored by Library Services during Open Access Week 2015.

Bringing Gokb To Life: Data, Integrations, And Development, Kristen B. Wilson

Charleston Library Conference

The Global Open Knowledgebase (GOKb) project is developing a repository of freely available data that describes electronic journals and books as they are offered in the academic publishing supply chain. Since the first partners release in May 2014, the project has taken major steps toward realizing its goals. This article will include a general project overview and update, followed by discussion of data collection, integration, and development initiatives that are already underway among the project partners. Readers will also learn about next steps for GOKb and opportunities for broader community involvement.

Engrossed, Enraged, Engaged: Empowering Faculty In Transforming Scholarly Communication, Jen Waller, Jennifer W. Bazeley

Charleston Library Conference

Librarians are deeply invested in the scholarly publishing lifecycle. This investment, in tandem with an evolving scholarly communication system, has encouraged librarians to become advocates for transformation in this landscape. At the same time, some faculty members have been slower to understand the complexities of the current system and its evolution. At Miami University, traditional communication methods weren’t sufficient to meaningfully engage faculty in these evolving trends. As a response, several librarians designed and cofacilitated two Scholarly Communication Faculty Learning Communities (FLCs) for two academic years. These FLCs have been the most successful method of increasing faculty understanding about scholarly …

What Is Consulting Services? Our Approach To Supporting The Needs Of The Scholarly Community, Allen Sprague

Digital Commons+ Great Lakes User Group

An outline of the thought and approach behind bepress's Consulting Services model.

Evaluating Scholarly Communication Services And Programs To Plan For Sustained Success, Jacklyn Rander, Matt Ruen

Digital Commons+ Great Lakes User Group

The scholarly communications program and institutional repository at Grand Valley State University began in 2008, and in its first seven years, grew rapidly. Our team, recently-expanded, now includes three full time positions, and through our repository we host open textbooks, open-access journals, and thousands of documents. Our initial growth was organic and opportunistic, which enabled this initiative to successfully take root in the University Libraries. The next challenge for our scholarly communications program is to make sure those early roots are strong and healthy, so that we can sustain our initial success through the next seven years and beyond.

In …

Beyond Assessment: Using Metrics To Make Institutional Repositories Indispensable, Harrison W. Inefuku, Todd A. Bruns

Digital Commons+ Great Lakes User Group

The collection, analysis, and reporting of metrics is a valuable tool for repository managers in measuring and assessing the growth and usage of their institutional repositories. These metrics are varied in nature and purpose, and can include download counts to measure readership of repository materials, numbers of uploaded items to measure repository growth, sources of inbound visitors to determine the success of search engine optimization, and names and numbers of contributing authors to measure faculty uptake.

The stakeholders in an institutional repository extend beyond the library to include university administration, academic departments, research centers, professors, staff, students, and alumni. These …

Pampering Uploaders: Easing The Metadata Upload Process, Craighton T. Hippenhammer

Digital Commons+ Great Lakes User Group

Impromptu Lightning Talk, listing five tips for configuring submission forms to ease the process of item upload for users.

Using Built-In Features, Stephanie Gaskins, Elizabeth Richardson

Digital Commons+ Great Lakes User Group

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, …

"Make It Work": Patching Together A New Ir Workflow To Sustain Growth, Teresa Schultz

Digital Commons+ Great Lakes User Group

Growing an institutional repository at a small university library with limited resources brings a number of challenges, and VU is no different. The Christopher Center Library has no dedicated employees who work solely with its IR, ValpoScholar, and instead relies on a mix of interns and other employees to create records and upload works in their spare time. VU has had some success in finding faculty works for ValpoScholar through self-submissions for an annual celebration of faculty research and by searching databases but wanted to see if there was still a better way. In Fall 2014, the library began to …

How To, And How Not To Recover And Preserve Two Orphan Journals: A Case Study Of The Journal Of Communication Therapy And Insight And Hindsight, Paul Blobaum

Digital Commons+ Great Lakes User Group

The OPUS repository at Governors State University, University Park IL was launched in May, 2014. The Repository replaces Dspace. Materials in the University Archives were reviewed for possible candidates for digitization and utilization of the Digital Commons Journal series structures for optimal showcasing of archived content of these defunct journals that originated at the University. Copies of the Journal of Communication Therapy, and Insight and Hindsight, journal were discovered in the University Archives, and identified for recovery of the publication's opus (filling in missing issues), digitization, and archival preservation. A collaborative effort with Texas State University library was implemented to …

Academic Publishing Folklore: Finding A Unified Narrative For Open Access, Dave Johnston

Digital Commons+ Great Lakes User Group

There is often no systematic means by which information about open access and the scholarly publishing landscape is shared between faculty, students and administrators and the particular concerns can vary considerably from discipline to discipline. The patchwork of beliefs about open access and publishing on our campuses bears more similarity to a body of folklore, an academic publishing folklore. Like all folklore, it can contain elements of both misinformation and truth.

Working as a librarian in a scholarly communications role brings with it the responsibility of conveying the importance of open access to faculty members, students and administrators in order …

Scholarly Communication Outreach: Oers, Etds, And Liaisons, Todd Bruns, Steve Brantley, Stacey Knight-Davis

Digital Commons+ Great Lakes User Group

At Eastern Illinois University (EIU) several library faculty have been involved with a coordinated outreach effort to provide scholarly communication support services to EIU's faculty. This presentation will highlight many of those efforts, including producing the results of the recent Bepress survey trial of faculty digital research needs, using the IR as a platform for hosting Open Educational Resources, marketing the IR and library services to faculty via "Success + Service" reports, training library subject liaisons to be "scholarly communication coaches," and outreach efforts to specific campus entities such as EIU's Research and Sponsored Programs Office, the Center for Humanities, …