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In Search Of The Impactful And The Interesting: Swings Of The Pendulum?, Timothy Adrian Robert Clark, Steven W. Floyd, Mike Wright

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

In this article we reflect on our time as editors of JMS during the period 2003-09. First we describe the context as we saw it on assuming editorship of the Journal and the actions that we took to improve the quality of scholarship published in the journal in order to set JMS on the trajectory to become a world-leading Journal. We articulate our view of what quality means in this context and observe that we eschewed the USA-Europe divide. Rather, to be publishable, all papers had to meet the highest standards relative to their epistemological assumptions. Finally, we address two …

The Importance Of Digitization In Teaching-Oriented University And College Libraries, Craighton T. Hippenhammer

Faculty Scholarship – Library Science

An increasing number of university and college libraries have started digitization programs and there are good reasons why they are doing so. First, we are in the middle of revolutionary change as to how ideas get published and distributed. Over 50 percent of scholarly publishing has gone digital and over 20 percent has gone open access. Governments worldwide are beginning to require tax-supported research be published in open access venues. Secondly, it is imperative that they increase their Archives’ digital presence. Preserving institutional histories is currently being lost because of the entirely digital way academics now communicate and many archives …

Open Access: Historical Highlights, Issues And Policies, Paul St-Pierre, Lisa Di Valentino, Samuel Trosow

FIMS Presentations

Print publishing relies on enclosure of information in a physical object (book). The digital environment potentially increases access (online journals). Publishers, however, can implement control beyond that which is possible in a print world; for example, license agreements that try to restrict user rights such as fair dealing. Open access is an increasingly popular publishing option, and represents a progressive application of technology and alternatives to traditional intellectual property. This moderated panel discussion with University of Western Ontario scholars, is an introduction to the origins of problems in scholarly publishing, current open access initiatives, and educational policies.

University Of Rhode Island Open Access Policy, Andrée Rathemacher, Julia Lovett

Technical Services Faculty Presentations

Presentation slides for a presentation on the University of Rhode Island Open Access Policy to the University of Rhode Island Deans' Council, October 23, 2013.

Online Repository Makes Local Research Available To All, Cbs Radio News - Wrjm

EIU in the News

Open

Access Week will be celebrated

throughout the world from

Monday through Oct. 27, and

Booth Library on the Eastern

Illinois University campus is

observing the global event by

highlighting its institutional

online repository, The Keep.

Open Access Week 2013, Dave Johnston, Yayo Umetsubo

Leddy Library Publications

Information pamphlet from OA week 2013

Open Access At Uri: Exciting Opportunities For Faculty, Researchers, And Grad Students, Julia Lovett, Andrée Rathemacher

Technical Services Faculty Presentations

Slides from a presentation, "Open Access at URI: Exciting Opportunities for Faculty, Researchers, and Grad Students" offered at the University of Rhode Island Libraries on October 8 and October 21, 2013.

"Open Access provides you with the opportunity to increase your readership and your scholarly impact, and also improves your access to scholarly information. The DigitalCommons@URI is part of an international effort to increase access to scholarly articles, theses, and dissertations. Come learn about the benefits of open access for your research and how to comply with URI's Open Access policies."

Part of the University Libraries' Search Savvy Seminar series.

Global Sharing Of Open Access At Smu, Pin Pin Yeo

Research Collection Library

The Li Ka Shing Library at Singapore Management University (SMU) organised “Global Sharing of Open Access Content”, a half-day event together with bepress (Berkeley Electronic Press) on 23 August 2013.

Henderson News 2.1, Bede Mitchell, Katrina Jackson, Jessica Minihan, Ashley Lowery, Stacy Kluge, Ruth Baker, Jocelyn Poole, Lori L. Gwinett, Ann Hamilton

Henderson Library Newsletters (2010-2019)

In This Issue: Technology Edition
- Henderson Library's Fresh New Look Online
-DISCOVER: One Year Later
- Digital Special Collections: Using Contentdm to Bring Local History & More to Your Browser
- Open Access: How Scholarship is Changing
- Digital Commons: Expanding Georgia Southern's Visibility and Influence
-Digital Commons from a Client's Perspective
-LibGuides: Online Subject Guides
-The Right to Privacy in the 21st Century
-Series Summary: America's Music
-Government Shutdown Impacts Library Research

The Many Shades Of Open Access: The History And Future Of Open Access Initiatives At Purdue University, David Scherer

Libraries Faculty and Staff Presentations

For an area with the common goal of providing free online public access to scholarship and research, the ways in which Open Access are accomplished can be very different. Just as there is green, blue, yellow, and gold open access, there can also be different “colors” of open access activities and initiatives. This presentation addresses some of the open access initiatives currently in use and in development at Purdue University to increase access to scholarship. Presented at the 3^rd Annual Great Lakes e-Summit Conference, September 23, 2013, Oregon, Ohio.

Cultures Of Access: Differences In Rhetoric Around Open Access Repositories In Africa And The United States And Their Implications For The Open Access Movement, Natalia T. Bowdoin

Faculty Publications

Open Access (OA) refers to free, online access to peer reviewed scholarship. Many OA proponents view OA as a potential mechanism for reversing inequities in information flows between industrialized and non-industrialized nations. The "green road" of OA (self-archiving in an OA institutional repository) has seen substantial growth in African nations where there have historically been chronic problems both with access to scholarly and scientific materials and participation in the larger scholarly and scientific community. For this study I examined the rhetoric used by OA institutional repositories and what this rhetoric may say about different "cultures of OA". I conducted textual …

Do Open Access Electronic Theses And Dissertations Diminish Publishing Opportunities In The Social Sciences And Humanities? Findings From A 2011 Survey Of Academic Publishers, Marisa L. Ramirez, Joan T. Dalton, Gail Mcmillan, Max Read, Nan H. Seamans

Leddy Library Publications

An increasing number of higher education institutions worldwide are requiring submission of electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) by graduate students and are subsequently providing open access to these works in online repositories. Faculty advisors and graduate students are concerned that such unfettered access to their work could diminish future publishing opportunities. This study investigated social sciences, arts, and humanities journal editors’ and university press directors’ attitudes toward ETDs. The findings indicate that manuscripts that are revisions of openly accessible ETDs are always welcome for submission or considered on a case-by-case basis by 82.8 percent of journal editors and 53.7 percent …

Scientific Communication Before And After Networked Science, John Carey

Publications and Research

Recent decades have seen extensive changes in how researchers in the sciences work. Online platforms enabled by Web 2.0 technologies (collectively known as “open” or “networked” science) have created multiple new channels for informal communications, revolutionizing the ways in which scientists collaborate and share results. Meanwhile, digitization and open access publishing have brought fundamental change to modes of publication and distribution for scientific journals. Yet the primary vehicle for the formal publication of results, the scientific article, has been much slower to alter in format. This paper will examine the functions that peer-reviewed journals have served within the scientific community …

Oa Policy Development At Uri, Andrée Rathemacher

Technical Services Faculty Presentations

Slides and other materials related to a presentation on the development of an open access policy at the University of Rhode Island.

The presentation was part of a discussion on recent OA policy development in New England at the ACRL New England Chapter Scholarly Communication Interest Group Summer Program, New Roles for Supporting Digital Scholarship in Academic Libraries. The program took place on June 19, 2013 at Northeastern University in Boston, MA.

Chapter One: A Small College Library Joins The Open Access Movement, Janelle L. Wertzberger

All Musselman Library Staff Works

The open access movement has been going strong for over a decade. Large research universities tend to have the oldest and most active programs. Their work is inspiring, but it can be challenging for librarians at smaller institutions to identify ways to contribute to the movement.

Gettysburg College launched its institutional repository in 2012. This presentation tells how we got started.

Open Access Publishing And Intellectual Freedom: Remembering Aaron Swartz, Brendan Ryan, Andrée Rathemacher

Technical Services Faculty Presentations

Slides and other materials related to a presentation on open access at the 2013 Rhode Island Library Association Annual Conference, Navigating a Sea of Change. The presentation was part of a broader discussion on open access and Aaron Swartz. It took place on June 4, 2013 at Salve Regina University in Newport, RI.

The abstract for the presentation reads: "After an introduction to the concept of Creative Commons and the tragic case of Aaron Swartz, join the panelists in discussing open access, scholarly publishing and the flow of information as they relate to libraries."

Open Access And The Institutional Repository, Julia Lovett, Andrée Rathemacher

Technical Services Faculty Presentations

Slides and other materials from a presentation at the conference Querying the Library: Digitization and Its Impact, sponsored by the James P. Adams Library at Rhode Island College. The conference took place on May 31, 2013. A video of the presentation is available at http://digitalcommons.ric.edu/ql/2013/QTL_May31/5/.

Abstract of the presentation reads: "This panel will discuss the efforts to pass a Harvard-style Open Access Policy at URI which will enable faculty authors to retain the rights to their articles even if they subsequently sign away their copyright to a journal."

Partners On Campus: Open Access Transportation Research At Purdue University, David Scherer

Libraries Faculty and Staff Presentations

In the third community webinar presentation on regional and community partnerships, David Scherer, the Scholarly Repository Specialist at Purdue University, described how institutional repositories can support community engagement through the rewards of the partnership between Purdue's institutional repository, Purdue e-Pubs, and Indiana's Joint Transportation Research Program (JTRP). The Purdue Libraries and the Purdue University Press have worked to archive and showcase the fruits of over 75 years of strong collaboration between Purdue University and the Indiana Department of Transportation on research that has a significant impact on the safe and efficient operation of transportation systems throughout Indiana, the United States, …

Library-Led Open Education Resources Initiatives: Strategies For Engaging Faculty, Sarah Beaubien

Presentations

Open education resources (OER) are freely available materials for educators and learners. The open education movement is quickly expanding to include free textbooks, open courseware, and new models of delivering educational content. With expertise in the areas of open access, copyright, and institutional repositories, Librarians are well-suited to lead open education initiatives. This session discusses strategies for implementing open education initiatives, showcasing and preserving open education materials, and building partnerships to sustain this movement.

Bypassing Roadblocks To Technical Information: Locating Freely Available Technical Information For Entrepreneurs, Anne E. Rauh

Libraries' and Librarians' Publications

If you have ever had to seek technical information, you have probably run into an information access roadblock or a pay-wall. This is a major issue for our students as they leave our universities and our subscription resources and move on to become practitioners of their field. This session will outline the different types of freely available technical information - including patents, government funded technical reports, and open access journal literature - and demonstrate how to access them. The session will also give examples of how to integrate these resources into the classroom through design projects and information seeking assignments. …

Open Access Policy At The University Of Rhode Island, Julia Lovett, Andrée Rathemacher

Technical Services Faculty Presentations

Materials related to a "Lightning Talk" presentation on the University of Rhode Island Open Access Policy, given at the NETSL Annual Spring Conference in Worcester, MA, April 12, 2013.

Is An Institutional Repository Right For Your Small College Library?, Janelle L. Wertzberger

All Musselman Library Staff Works

Learn how a small college library launched an institutional repository (IR) without dedicated staff or IT support. Thanks to hosted solutions and our global learning community, open access repositories are now within reach of smaller institutions, and they bring many benefits to the libraries that manage them. Weigh the benefits of library publishing with the new, lower cost of participating, and decide if an IR is right for your library.

Digital Media And Open Access: A Solution For Readers And Writers, Andrée Rathemacher

Technical Services Faculty Presentations

Powerpoint presentation for a seminar, "Digital Media and Open Access: A Solution for Readers and Writers." The seminar was sponsored by the Harrington School of Communication and Media and co-sponsored by the University Libraries at the University of Rhode Island. It took place on March 26, 2013.

Building Departmental Partnerships For Open Access: Scholarly Communication And Collections, Katie Wesolek, Andrew Wesolek

Library Faculty & Staff Presentations

The Open Access Initiatives at Utah State University are tightly integrated with our collection development goals, and perhaps more importantly, our budget. Our collections budget provides financial support for our Bepress DigitalCommons repository, as well as funding to support our faculty authors who choose to publish in author-pays OA journals. While we recognize the important service provided by traditional publishers, our hope for the long run is to change the conversation in our library-publisher relationships such that we may eventually have remaining funds to provide even more resources to our University community. This presentation will explore the keys to the …

Oapen-Uk, Michael J. Hughes

Library Faculty Research

OAPEN-UK is the United Kingdom branch of Open Access Publishing in European Networks, a research project that aims to devise a comprehensive, equitable, and sustainable model for Open Access (OA) publishing in the humanities and social sciences (HSS) that is agreeable to all stakeholders: publishers, authors, readers, librarians, and others. The heart of the project is a pilot involving an experimental group of 29 OA titles paired with the same number of traditional route-to-market books in a control group. Matched as closely as possible by subject, timeliness, price, format, and sales over time, the monographs are made discoverable via MARC …

Information - Access: Denied, Riccardo M. Purita

SURGE

I have been privileged during my lifetime to always have the opportunity to learn about something if I wanted to. When I became interested in music and psychology—or even when I was learning how to apply for college—I googled it. The resources to obtain information have always been there for me: access to computers, the internet, books, journals. It is hard to imagine my life without a computer or access to books to learn about the world, and even harder to imagine if I did not know how to read or write. For this, I can thank my education and …

An Open Access Policy For Uri: A Recommendation Of The Ad-Hoc Committee On Open Access, Andrée J. Rathemacher

Technical Services Faculty Presentations

Powerpoint presentation to the University of Rhode Island Faculty Senate on behalf of the Ad-Hoc Committee on Open Access, February 21, 2013.

The Brave New World Of Open Access & Creative Commons: A Humanistic Experiment In Mathematical Publishing, Gizem Karaali

Pomona Faculty Publications and Research

In January 2011 the Journal of Humanistic Mathematics (JHM) published its first issue. JHM (http://scholarship.claremont.edu/jhm) is an online-only, peer-reviewed, open-access journal which has passed the all important ten-thousand-download barrier in its first anniversary. In order to remain faithful to the fundamental principles of open access, JHM uses Creative Commons licensing, where authors retain copyright of their work, but others are free to reuse them (with proper attribution). In this note I share and reflect upon our experience with open access and Creative Commons.

Marketing Open Access Services & Tools To Faculty, Sean Lind, Joe Williams

University Library Faculty Presentations

Practical examples of how to market an open access institutional repository are presented to help subject liaisons with faculty outreach.

Forging A New Path : Faculty Buy-In For The Institutional Repository And Open Access Publishing, Carol G. Hixson, Tina M. Neville, Deborah Boran Henry

USF St. Petersburg campus Faculty Publications

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