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Winning Friends And Influencing People: Oer And Higher Education Affordability, Marilyn K. Moody
Winning Friends And Influencing People: Oer And Higher Education Affordability, Marilyn K. Moody
Marilyn K. Moody
Higher Education stakeholders, including students, parents, faculty, administrators, legislators, state higher education boards, trustees, alumni, and donors are all concerned about the high cost of education and its impact on students. Positioning OER within the broader context of college affordability creates interest in the creation and use of OER, as well as powerful allies for OER initiatives. Approaches and examples of how to communicate OER value for affordability efforts and influence these varied stakeholders will be included in this presentation. Portland State University and its use of OER and the creation of open textbooks in the context of university initiatives …
Scholarly Publishing, Amanda Izenstark, Andrée Rathemacher, Julia Lovett
Scholarly Publishing, Amanda Izenstark, Andrée Rathemacher, Julia Lovett
Julia Lovett
Slides from a presentation, "Scholarly Publishing," offered at the University of Rhode Island Libraries on February 17 and 18, 2016. "Feedback from previous sessions indicates that many in the URI community are interested in learning more about scholarly publishing. This session will cover some of the roles the library plays in helping you find, organize, share, and archive your research, but we also want to hear about your more specific interests." Part of the University Libraries' Search Savvy Seminar series.
The Library As Publishing House, James Day, Anne Marie Casey, Chip Wolfe
The Library As Publishing House, James Day, Anne Marie Casey, Chip Wolfe
James M. Day
The academic library has taken on the new role of institutional publishing house, using institutional repository (IR) services to enable journal publishing and manage conference planning. Librarians taking on this new role as publisher must know the journal publishing work flow, including online article submission, peer review, publishing, marketing, and assessment. They must understand international identifiers such as the electronic International Standard Serial Number (eISSN) and Digital Object Identifier (DOI). To manage conference planning functions, librarians need to understand event functions such as presentation submission, program scheduling, registration and third-party payment systems, proceedings publishing, and archiving. In general, they need …