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Open Access Week (Retention Of Author Rights), Mark Perry Oct 2009

Open Access Week (Retention Of Author Rights), Mark Perry

Mark Perry

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Library As Publishing Agent: Exploring New Roles, Marilyn S. Billings Oct 2009

Library As Publishing Agent: Exploring New Roles, Marilyn S. Billings

Marilyn S. Billings

Academic libraries of all sizes can and must strategically position themselves as campus publishers. One means of doing this is to implement an Institutional Repository, providing opportunities to showcase senior theses, dissertations, award-winning papers, and student and faculty peer-reviewed journals. The Academic Librarians Section (ALS) presented Marilyn Billings from UMass Amherst to explain how this works in her library.


Rough Waters: Navigating Hard Times In The Scholarly Communication Marketplace, Adrian K. Ho Oct 2009

Rough Waters: Navigating Hard Times In The Scholarly Communication Marketplace, Adrian K. Ho

Adrian K. Ho

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Library Space Redesign (Virtual), Marilyn S. Billings Jun 2009

Library Space Redesign (Virtual), Marilyn S. Billings

Marilyn S. Billings

This session will present a series of "think pieces" for both librarians and other campus constituencies to explore as we create new ways of working together to meet the needs of students, faculty and researchers of the 21st century. Topics will include new scholarly communication techniques, digital repositories, new partnerships and ways of marketing our scholarly outreach activities, and examine the implications for our current and future workforce.


Issues With Scholarly Publishing, Tim Tamminga Jan 2009

Issues With Scholarly Publishing, Tim Tamminga

Tim Tamminga

Universities are increasingly self-publishing scholarly research through formal journals or other forms of publishing. A parallel trend is to include or actually use the IR as the publishing platform. This presentation shows examples of how self-publishing and IRs can work well together.