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Collaborating To Write Scholarly Communications: Find Inspiration From One Librarian’S Journey, Jennifer Little Kegler

Jennifer Little Kegler

During this session perspective authors will learn how one librarian wrote and published articles, as a sole author, co-author and with a group of authors. Creative opportunities and projects abound on a college campus; the harder part is converting these projects into publishable material. Learn how to take ideas and projects and publish them in scholarly journals as a librarian. Bring your own ideas and/or drafts, and we will work on them together. We will also identify publishing opportunities: both "traditional" journals and open access titles and provide links for more information.

Author's Rights And Predatory Publishers, Paul Royster

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Conference Presentations and Speeches

All publishers are predators. Even the ones who are reasonably honest and responsible. But some take it too far, and they use business practices that are extremely misleading and dishonest.

“People I don’t know keep contacting me online.” The DOAJ and Beall's List. How the scam works; a matter of degree. Troll publishers entice authors to sign over the rights.

Bad signs: You never heard of them, even though you have been doing research in the area for 5 years. Title is vague and overly broad. Physical location is obscure. No affiliation with school or society. Interest in receiving money …

A Financial Option For The Modern University Press, Thomas Bacher

Thomas Bacher

Harvard professor Yochai Benkler has written a number of papers on the prospect of peer production of information. The digital environment can provide an avenue for many disciplines to lower the system cost of information. Viewing scholarly information as a public good changes the nature of participation. In a smaller discipline like Cultural Anthropology, for example, could a decentralized, peer-run system alter the way constituents cooperate to produce openly-accessible, quality research and provide a template for other disciplines? In other words, can the academy maximize social technologies like crowdsourcing to create content by having interested parties donate money, time, and …

Randall Munroe’S What If As A Test Case For Open Access In Popular Culture, Nancy M. Foasberg

Publications and Research

Open access to scholarly research benefits not only the academic world but also the general public. Questions have been raised about the popularity of academic materials for nonacademic readers. However, when scholarly materials are available, they are also available to popularizers who can recontextualize them in unexpected and more accessible ways. Randall Munroe’s blog/comic What If uses open access scholarly and governmental documents to answer bizarre hypothetical questions submitted by his readers. His work is engaging, informative, and reaches a large audience. While members of the public may not rush to read open access scientific journals, their availability to writers …

Graduate Student Publishing Brown Bag: Etiquette And Politics, Charlotte Roh

Charlotte Roh

From the flyer: Why: Publishing is essential to an academic career. It will help you get a job and without it, you can’t get tenure! What: This brown bag will go over the etiquette and politics of academic publishing, whether you’re just starting in your career or ABD. Who: Charlotte Roh is a former editor with Oxford University Press and Taylor & Francis. As a librarian she consults with faculty and students on their publishing projects.

Open Access Publishing In Higher Education: Charting The Challenging Course To Academic And Financial Sustainability, Mark I. Greenberg Mls, Ph.D.

Journal of Educational Controversy

The benefits, pitfalls, and sustainability of open access publishing are hotly debated. Commercial publishers dominate the marketplace and oppose alternative publishing models that threaten their bottom line. Scholars’ use of open access remains relatively limited due to awareness and perceived benefits to their professional goals. Readership of open access publications is generally strong, but some people disagree that more readers leads to increased citations and research impact. Libraries have grown their influence by supporting and promoting open access, but these efforts come with significant financial costs. Today, open access has flourished most significantly as a philosophy: the belief that the …

Pay It Forward: Investigating A Sustainable Model Of Open Access Article Processing Charges For Large North American Research Institutions Survey Instrument, Carol Tenopir, Betsy D. Dalton, Misty K. Jones

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

A survey of faculty, graduate students, and postdoctoral researchers at four large North American research universities (n = 2021) asked respondents to rate how eight different journal factors and five different audiences influence their choice of publication output.

Understanding Rights Reversion: When, Why, & How To Regain Copyright And Make Your Book More Available, Nicole Cabrera, Jordyn Ostroff, Brianna Schofield

Copyright, Fair Use, Scholarly Communication, etc.

Are you an author who would like to increase your book’s availability? Have you already entered into a publishing agreement for your book? If you answered “yes” to both of these questions, then read on! This guide addresses the needs of authors who wish to make their works available to a wider audience in ways that may be prohibited by the terms of their existing publishing agreements.

For example, this guide will help authors who want to do things like: • Bring their out-of-print books back into print • Publish digital versions of their books • Make their books openly …