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Comparison Of Library Publishing Workflows By Oa Model, Sue Ann Gardner

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Conference Presentations and Speeches

Population of an institutional repository is a form of publishing. Green and diamond OA library publishing workflows are compared. The workflow for gold OA does not involve library publishing. Some data about the UNL Digital Commons institutional repository (https://digitalcommons.unl.edu) are included.

Cracking The Pubmed Linkout System, Paul Royster, Sue Ann Gardner

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Conference Presentations and Speeches

The University of Nebraska's institutional repository has managed to participate in The NLM’s PubMed LinkOut program to place links to our Green Open Access content in the nation’s premier scientific citations database. This brief presentation describes how and why we worked to be included and what extended effects the integration of those systems (our IR + NLM’s PubMed) can provide.

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A Brief History Of Open Access, Paul Royster

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Conference Presentations and Speeches

Presentation discusses the origins and progress of the Open Access "movement" from Budapest 2002 to the present: its advocates and critics, its tools and methods, its goals and heroes, its dramas and possible futures.

Contents: Project Gutenberg 1971 ● GNU Project (1983) ● arXiv.org (1991) ● Public Knowledge Project (1998): John Willinsky, Simon Fraser University (partners Stanford University & University of British Columbia) ● BMC Biomed Central (2000), Jan Velterop. ● PLOS (Public Library of Science) 2001; PLoSOne 2003; Michael Eisen, UCalBerkeley ● APC: Article Processing Charges ● Hybrid journals ● Creative Commons 2001; Lawrence Lessig, Harvard Law School, et …

Unl Digital Commons For Ucare, Paul Royster

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Conference Presentations and Speeches

UCARE is the program for Undergraduate Creative Activity and Research at University of Nebraska–Lincoln. It gives college students the opportunity to be co-researchers and co-authors with university faculty. This presentation concerns the digital preservation and online distribution of those research products. It interprets the story of Noah's Ark, not as a historical fable, but as an existential one—an illustration of the digital flood constantly ongoing around us at every moment. Noah did not discriminate between "good" and "bad" animals; he included every species. When the time came, he released all the animals back into the world, having preserved them for …

Publishing And Public Access Ideas, Paul Royster

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Conference Presentations and Speeches

What’s happening in publishing … … since the arrival of digital?

Technologically, work has become • easier to produce • easier to share • easier to disseminate worldwide

Practically, however, work has become : • concentrated in hands of fewer publishers • harder to get (legally) • more expensive •less circulated

Therefore: The Open Access Movement

Disclaimer: • I am not an apostle for Open Access • I believe in public access, not necessarily OpenAccess

What’s the difference?
Open access* = license to re-use, re-post, re-distribute, re-combine, re-work, revise, etc. [*Budapest definition]
Public access = right to read, download, and …

The Advice Not Taken: How One Repository Found Its Own Path, Paul Royster

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Conference Presentations and Speeches

Managers of institutional repositories are offered much advice, from national organizations (like SPARC) and promoters of movements like Open Access or products like Creative Commons licenses. This presentation is about how Nebraska's IR has succeeded despite not following the advice offered by experts, publishing consultants, and "thought leaders" in scholarly communications.

The advice generally offered includes: 1.Use open source software 2.Expect faculty to self-archive 3.Seek campus “mandate” or deposit policy 4.Promote author-rights addendum 5.Provide funds for gold OA fees 6.Participate in Open Access events 7.Promote Creative Commons licenses 8.Require peer review for original publishing and 9.Assign all possible identifiers.

Instead, …