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Supporting Open Access Through A Student-Driven Journal, Jennifer Raye, Olivia Macisaac, Sheel Patel, Anne Perez, Morgan Ragsdale, Spencer Lindgren
Supporting Open Access Through A Student-Driven Journal, Jennifer Raye, Olivia Macisaac, Sheel Patel, Anne Perez, Morgan Ragsdale, Spencer Lindgren
Scholarship and Professional Work
BU Well is Butler University's open-access, multimedia, student-driven healthcare journal. BU Well was founded in 2014 as the first open-access, multimedia healthcare review journal in the nation. BU Well is a two year course for Butler University Health Science students, with students researching and producing the written articles, along with a multimedia component. When submitting, authors work with students on the editorial team to co-create an infographic and video. Continuing with the student-run model, the editorial board consists of upper-level health science students. With 2019’s Volume 5, students introduced podcasting as a multimedia component option. Once published, BU Well is …
Measuring Altruistic Impact: A Model For Understanding The Social Justice Of Open Access, Margaret Heller, Franny Gaede
Measuring Altruistic Impact: A Model For Understanding The Social Justice Of Open Access, Margaret Heller, Franny Gaede
Scholarship and Professional Work
INTRODUCTION Traditional assessment of ways in which open access initiatives and institutional repositories have provided a return on investment normally use pragmatic measures such as download counts and citation benefits. This pragmatic approach misses out on the powerful altruistic impact of improving access to international and/or marginalized communities. Using a frame of social justice, this article considers the importance of developing altruistic measures of repositories, particularly for institutions with missions specifically related to social justice and related themes. METHODS Using web analytics data for search keywords from eight institutions and geographic usage data from nine institutions, the authors were able …
March 2011 - Digital Minute Issue 9, Brad Matthies
March 2011 - Digital Minute Issue 9, Brad Matthies
Digital Minute
This issue showcases how to leverage open access to promote your presentations.
February 2011 - Digital Minute Issue 8, Brad Matthies
February 2011 - Digital Minute Issue 8, Brad Matthies
Digital Minute
This issue highlights the value of having your work in open access publications.
September 2010 - Digital Minute Issue 5, Brad Matthies
September 2010 - Digital Minute Issue 5, Brad Matthies
Digital Minute
This issue features the College of Business.
July 2010 - Digital Minute Issue 4, Brad Matthies
July 2010 - Digital Minute Issue 4, Brad Matthies
Digital Minute
This issue features a Chronicle article that discusses the benefits of an I.R.
May 2010 - Digital Minute Issue 2, Brad Matthies
May 2010 - Digital Minute Issue 2, Brad Matthies
Digital Minute
This issue features information about global repositories, as well as visits to our Digital Commons by country.