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Open Access And Irs: Educating And Empowering The Campus Community, Adam N. Hess
Open Access And Irs: Educating And Empowering The Campus Community, Adam N. Hess
Library Faculty Scholarship
With the trend moving toward universities developing their own institutional repositories (IRs), the need to educate and empower the campus to embrace this new space for publishing research has grown exponentially. This session will provide a background on open access and IRs, including the many benefits and complex issues, as well as an overview of the scholarly communication crisis and the importance of authors’ rights education. The session will go on to provide practical examples and guidance from several pilot projects launched at Arcadia University that emphasized open access education and participation.
Big, Fast, And Familiar: Looking At And Past Google As Bff, Calvin H. Wang, Adam N. Hess
Big, Fast, And Familiar: Looking At And Past Google As Bff, Calvin H. Wang, Adam N. Hess
Library Faculty Scholarship
An observation of search behavior reveals that users lose the forest for a single tree by clicking on promising search results too quickly. Converse with your BFF to determine what it knows, how much it knows about it, how well it knows it, and then how to use what it knows to move on to the specialists. This session will help you see connections that you might already see intuitively so that you can help users refine their own judgment skills about what Google results are telling them. The presenter will engage participants in analyses of several case studies.
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A Digital Asset Management Philosophy, Adam N. Hess
A Digital Asset Management Philosophy, Adam N. Hess
Library Faculty Scholarship
Librarian Adam Hess offers good advice for budding DAM managers: Forget what you see and form your own vision for digital asset management. Part of the “Librarian Tips for DAM Managers” article series from DAM Guru Program.