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Fostering Change: Evaluating Digital Scholarship For Professional Credit, Seth Denbo
Fostering Change: Evaluating Digital Scholarship For Professional Credit, Seth Denbo
Open Access Week
As the field of digital humanities becomes an ever more important facet of both research and teaching, we need to find means for ensuring that the work is properly evaluated and that credit is given to the scholars who engage in it. The problems associated with developing this are complex, and new modes of research and publication have proven difficult to incorporate into disciplines that have traditionally put high value on print. Scholarly societies have an important role to play in encouraging creative thought and action about how best to accommodate these new modes within our disciplines.
Full Schedule For 2017 Open Access Week Events At The University Of Massachusetts Amherst, Erin Jerome
Full Schedule For 2017 Open Access Week Events At The University Of Massachusetts Amherst, Erin Jerome
Open Access Week
The UMass Amherst Libraries will host a series of events as part of Open Access Week 2017 pertaining to copyright and fair use, open access, electronic theses and dissertations, open technologies, and open data.
Multilingual Researchers And Reference Management Habits, Adam H. Lisbon
Multilingual Researchers And Reference Management Habits, Adam H. Lisbon
ACRL New England Chapter Annual Conference
Software is often developed with an implicit bias that people only speak one language, and that language should be English. Reference management software is no different. Scholars often have sources of information in multiple languages, and properly citing them creates a set of additional rules to remember and challenges for software to overcome to properly document the nature of the source materials. Different scholarly journals may have different expectations for how to format non-English sources. The demands can also vary based on the actual language of the source.
The use of reference management software is well documented, but the nature …
Collaborators And Partners: Librarians And Digital Scholarship, Jennifer Snow, Marisol Ramos
Collaborators And Partners: Librarians And Digital Scholarship, Jennifer Snow, Marisol Ramos
ACRL New England Chapter Annual Conference
Digital Scholarship is an important and growing field in which librarians embed themselves in scholarly projects, not just as providers of a service but as partners and collaborators throughout the life-cycle of research. Instead of acting as consultants on the periphery of the research process, librarians can be involved at every stage of the process. They bring valuable skills to the table in terms of technological expertise, subject and research knowledge, preservation considerations, and dissemination pathways. The University of Connecticut Library has consciously sought to grow its digital scholarship program and has undertaken several projects in the last couple of …
Coming Soon To Acrl | Nec: A New Open Access Repository For Conference Proceedings And Other Materials, Lisa A. Palmer, Karin Heffernan, Laura Wilson, Alan Witt
Coming Soon To Acrl | Nec: A New Open Access Repository For Conference Proceedings And Other Materials, Lisa A. Palmer, Karin Heffernan, Laura Wilson, Alan Witt
ACRL New England Chapter Annual Conference
This poster describes a new open access repository being developed to store and disseminate digital materials arising from ACRL | NEC conferences and SIG events. Come learn more about the repository and how your ACRL | NEC group can participate.