Scholarly Communication Commons^™

Keeping Up With… Open Peer Review, Emily Ford

Library Faculty Publications and Presentations

Open Peer Review is a current and developing practice in scholarly publishing that librarians need to continue to explore and discuss. To that end ACRL should continue to support experiments with and conversations about OPR in its publications. As academic librarians, we observe and engage with new practices in scholarly communication, and OPR should be no exception. Whether academic librarianship embraces OPR as a model of peer review for its publications, or we simply observe experiments in other disciplines, we can position ourselves to better support our patrons and our publishing ventures by examining OPR.

Repository Additions, October 2016, Cedarville University

DigitalCommons@Cedarville Monthly Reports

No abstract provided.

Digitalcommons@Cedarville Statistical Report For October 2016, Cedarville University

DigitalCommons@Cedarville Monthly Reports

No abstract provided.

Scholars' Mine Quick Facts November 2016, James Roger Weaver

Scholars’ Mine Statistics

Scholars' Mine statistical quick facts for November 2016.

The Sky’S The Limit: Scholarly Communication, Digital Initiatives, Institutional Repositories, And Subject Librarians, Lee Dotson, Richard Harrison, Sarah A. Norris, Barbara Tierney

Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

A panel presentation presented at the 2016 Charleston Conference in Charleston, South Carolina.

The University of Central Florida's institutional repository, STARS (Showcase of Text, Archives, Research & Scholarship), has presented new opportunities for collaboration amongst the Libraries' Office of Scholarly Communication, Digital Initiatives, Research Services, and Subject Librarians. Building on efforts to proactively promote scholarly communication initiatives to the university community, these four units have used the institutional repository as a foundation for collaboration, outreach, marketing and educational efforts. This presentation will give an overview of STARS and highlight the role the IR has in increasing the collaborative efforts of …

A Visualization Model Used For Determining The Effectiveness Of Information Retrieval In A Scientific Database, Nestor L. Osorio, Samantha Johnson

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

In this study, we demonstrate that a visualization model can determine the effectiveness of searching a bibliographic database, when three descriptive metadata fields are compared. The Inspec database was searched to create a bibliography of articles about a broad scientific topic, interplanetary travel. We collected metadata from 823 Inspec articles and used the Sci2 Tool to create co-occurrence networks based on subject terms, title keywords, and classification codes from each of the articles. The Watts-Strogatz clustering coefficient model was used to create molecular organization of the networks. This method identified subject domain clusters for each of the three selected metadata …

Getting Starting With The Open Science Framework, Patricia Condon

Open Access Events

The Open Science Framework is a free, open source web application that helps researchers manage workflows and facilitates open collaboration.

U.S. Federal Mandates & Open Access, Emily L. Poworoznek

Open Access Events

U.S. federal agencies with annual research & development expenditures over $100 million are now required to increase access to the results of funded research. We’ll look at what this means for researchers and their audiences.

Increase The Global Impact Of Your Scholarship With Open Access, Karen Vaughan, Corrie Marsh

Open Access Week

Learn how your scholarly and creative works can have a global impact. As an author/creator, you can ensure that your work will be accessible to the widest possible audience. To facilitate Open Access, we will review copyright contracts and discuss how to negotiate with journal publishers to retain author rights.

This event is jointly hosted by the University Libraries and Office of Research for Open Access Week 2016.

Open Access And Funder Mandates, Thea Atwood

Open Access Week

This workshop will provide an introduction to the current state of funder mandates and the library resources available to you to facilitate meeting compliance requirements. Thea Atwood, the Libraries’ Data Specialist, will cover the requirements of the top funders (and provide methods to gain information on the requirements for other funding agencies), resources to help you write your data management plan, the benefit of adding a digital object identifier (DOI) to your work, and sharing your scholarly outputs with ScholarWorks – both publications and data. Co-sponsored by the University Libraries and the Office of Research.

Increasing Your Impact: How Institutional Repositories Support And Disseminate Research, Todd Bruns

Faculty Research & Creative Activity

No abstract provided.

Open Access And Copyright For Theses And Dissertations, Erin Jerome

Open Access Week

What is the benefit for choosing open access for your dissertation or thesis? How can your copyright choices help or hurt your scholarship? In this workshop, an overview of open access, copyright, and fair use as it relates to your thesis or dissertation will be presented. We will also allow for plenty of time to discuss your thoughts and questions about these issues.

Finding The Public Domain: The Copyright Review Management System, Melissa Levine

Copyright, Fair Use, Scholarly Communication, etc.

Historically, copyright review has been uncoordinated and has taken place on a modest scale. The Copyright Review Management System (CRMS) changes that. 1 CRMS was supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services over three National Leadership Grants. It was led by the University of Michigan in collaboration with 19 other highly dedicated research libraries. Together, we developed a system to train and coordinate reviewers to assess the copyright status of digitized books held in the HathiTrust Digital Library. Over the course of the three interrelated grants that make up the CRMS project, we developed expertise in managing a …

Suny-Wide Open Access Initiatives, Jessica Clemons

Open Access Day

In this session, Jessica Clemons, Interim Director of College Libraries at SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry talks about some of the open access initiatives taking place in the SUNY Council of Library Directors.

Intro To Oers - A Game Changer For Higher Ed, Julie Cuccio Slichko Dr., Elaine M. Lasda

Open Access Day

No abstract provided.

Full Schedule For 2016 Open Access Week Events At The University Of Massachusetts Amherst., Marilyn S. Billings

Open Access Week

The UMass Amherst Libraries, the UMass Graduate School, and the Office of Research hosts a series of Open Access Week 2016 events relevant to open access, copyright and fair use, data sharing, and electronic theses and dissertations. All events are free and open to the public.

Opening Science: Increasing Access To Federally Funded Research, Jerry Sheehan

Open Access Day

Increasing Access to Federally Funded Research: Summarizes the considerable progress that Federal departments and agencies have made increasing public access to the results of Federally-supported scientific research and advancing the broader notion of open science. In this session, Jerry Sheehan, talks about sixteen agencies that now require researchers to ensure free public access to peer-reviewed publications resulting from all newly-funded research, with a delay of not more than 12 months after the publication date, and all agencies now have repositories to enhance accessibility to such research.

Scholars Archive Snapshot: Showcase Your Research, Lindsay Van Berkom, Jodi Boyle, Wendy L. West

Open Access Day

Scholars Archive is the University at Albany's Institutional Repository (IR). Scholars Archive provides a way for the University at Albany, faculty, staff, researchers and students to collect their scholarly work in a centralized place where it will be preserved, stored securely and easily shared. This session will highlight some of the benefits that Scholars Archive can offer. Jodi Boyle and Wendy West, both from the University at Albany Libraries, share their experiences with Scholars Archive.

Practice Safe Publishing: Finding A Great Oa Journal, Eleta Exline

Open Access Events

Avoid publishing scams and learn how to find a high-quality Open Access journal for your next article.

The Scholarly Publishing Crisis, Jennifer Carroll

Open Access Events

Learn about the recent global history of scholarly publishing and its affects on the UNH Libraries. Open Access publishing offers one possible solution to the budget pressures we face.