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Author Rights Workshop, Tom Adam, Monica Fazekas, Bruce Fyfe, Joanne Paterson

Tom Adam

No abstract provided.

Meeting The Rising Tide Of Faculty Needs, Sarah Wipperman

Sarah Wipperman

The Open Access Advantage For American Law Reviews, Carol Watson, James M. Donovan, Caroline Osborne

Caroline L. Osborne

Open access within legal academia provides a case study for the effective use of digital formats to promote scholarship. The presenters review the background historical developments in this field, and consider the benefits and rationales for providing open access to legal scholarship, including the special faculty concerns arising from SSRN and its relationship to the institutional repository. Results from the presenters’ recent empirical study of the citation advantage for open access scholarship in American law reviews will be discussed and placed in broader context of the benefits of open access scholarship.

What Is "Library Publishing" At A Liberal Arts College?, Janelle L. Wertzberger

Janelle Wertzberger

Panel title Cultivating Sustainable Library Publishing Services: Perspectives from a Range of Academic Libraries Discover how three institutions - a liberal arts college, a comprehensive university, and a research university - provide library-led publishing services to their campuses. The panelists will share how their respective institutions have developed and aligned policies, infrastructure, staffing, outreach, and strategic partnerships in order to provide sustainable publishing services. This presentation will also explore the risks and rewards in establishing innovative library publishing services in ways that support institutional missions.

A Small Library Launches A Publishing Program, Janelle L. Wertzberger

Janelle Wertzberger

Panel title: Staffing a Library Publishing Program: The Whos, Hows, and Whens Panel abstract: This session aims to address one of the most frequently raised concerns about library-led publishing: how to plan for staffing this new endeavor? The panel will discuss two inflection points in staff planning for library publishing: what it takes to get started (for a library that is just beginning to think about publishing), and what it takes to grow (for a library that has a few years of experience and wants to do more). It will also shed light on one of the least understood, and …

Open Access And Copyright For Theses And Dissertations, Meghan Banach

Meghan Banach Bergin

The event will give graduate students an overview of open access and the benefits of choosing open access for electronic theses and dissertations. An overview of copyright and fair use as it relates to theses and dissertations will also be presented.

Open Access At Valparaiso University: Two Perspectives - The User And The Publisher, Jonathan Bull

Jonathan Bull

This is part 2 of 2 of the presentation, "Open Access: Resources of tomorrow or Resources of a lower-quality?" which was presented at the Indiana Library Federation (District 1) conference on May 1, 2012. In this presentation, I discuss current Open Access initiatives at Valparaiso University as well as the Valpo user experience in relation to Open Access resources. Part 1 of 2 was "Open Access: The Basics," presented by Joseph Coates, Reference Coordinator at Calumet College of St. Joseph.

Open Education Initiative At Umass Amherst, Charlotte Roh

Charlotte Roh

Presentation on the Open Education Initiative at UMass Amherst for the Massachusetts Library System event Bending Boundaries: Libraries as Publishers

Chapter One: A Small College Library Joins The Open Access Movement, Janelle L. Wertzberger

Janelle Wertzberger

The open access movement has been going strong for over a decade. Large research universities tend to have the oldest and most active programs. Their work is inspiring, but it can be challenging for librarians at smaller institutions to identify ways to contribute to the movement. Gettysburg College launched its institutional repository in 2012. This presentation tells how we got started.

Aceresearch : Promoting The Visibility Of Educational Research Through An Institutional Repository, Lance Deveson

Lance Deveson

ACEReSearch is the research repository at the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER). The author presents an overview of the evolution and development of this open access online resource.

Bolde Research Bank - Blended, Online Learning & Distance Education (Power Point Presentation), Lance Deveson

Lance Deveson

A power point presentation describing the history and features of the Blended, Online Learning and Distance Education (BOLDE) research bank.

Library As Publisher: Articulating The Impact Of Digital Monographic Publishing Within The University, Richard Clement

Richard W. Clement

This PowerPoint considers the impact at Utah State University in moving the USU Press backlist into the IR, the creation of a digital library monographic imprint, and the creation of a space for experimentation in new digital monographic forms.

Issues In Digital Preservation, Denise Troll Covey

Denise Troll Covey

No abstract provided.

The Ethics Of Open Access To Research, Denise Troll Covey

Denise Troll Covey

No abstract provided.

Research In Seeking Copyright Permission For Open Access, Denise Troll Covey

Denise Troll Covey

No abstract provided.