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‘Opening The Future’ – A Reliable Funding Model For Open Access Monographs: Introducing An Innovative Approach To Publishing Oa Books Through Library Membership Funding, Kira Hopkins, Tom Grady

All Things Open

We outline the work of two university presses (Liverpool University Press and Central European University Press) who are, with assistance from Copim (Community-led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs), running an innovative revenue model to fund open access monographs. Called Opening the Future (OtF) this model builds on library subscription models: giving library members access to a highly-regarded backlist, with the revenue then used to make the frontlist openly accessible to all.

Given the current global library environment and budget pressures, a consortial model of funding promises a cost-effective solution for OA that means no single institution bears a disproportionate burden. …

Helping Authors Navigate Open Access Publication Funding Options: Growing Library Support To Meet Challenges And Opportunities, Anna R. Craft

All Things Open

With open access established as a sharing and publishing practice in many academic disciplines, authors are increasingly expecting and seeking assistance in identifying opportunities and funding for their open access publishing activities. But navigating this landscape can be challenging, and libraries can have an important role in educating authors to help them understand options, costs, and benefits. By contributing to this open access support work, Libraries can help meet the needs of their constituents while also developing their own skills and knowledge in this area.

This presentation will discuss library experiences in supporting open access publication funding at the University …

Accessing Advanced National Supercomputing And Storage Resources For Computational Research, Ramazan Aygun

All Things Open

This presentation will cover ACCESS (Advanced Cyberinfrastructure Coordination Ecosystem: Services & Support), and Kennesaw State University's involvement in Open Science Data Federation program as a data origin to help researchers and educators with or without supporting grants to utilize the nation’s advanced computing systems and services. ACCESS, a program established and funded by the National Science Foundation, is an ecosystem with capabilities for new modes of research and further democratizing participation. The presentation covers how to apply for allocations on ACCESS. The last part of the presentation will briefly explain Open Science Data Federation and Kennesaw State University's involvement as …

Open Together: Empowering Public Libraries With Community-Driven Open Source Tools, Ed Veal, Jessica Zairo

All Things Open

As pillars of community knowledge and access, public libraries have a unique opportunity to embody the principles of open source by adopting its tools and fostering collaborative environments. This presentation for the 2024 All Things Open Week, proposes an exploration into the symbiotic relationship between open-source communities and the McKinney Public Library. By spotlighting some of the open-source tools we embrace such as Koha, Aspen Discovery, Metabase, GIMP, LibreOffice, and our custom-developed Self-check system, our presentation will demonstrate the power of these technologies in revolutionizing how public libraries operate, engage with their patrons, and facilitate access to a wide array …

Reimagining Instructional Practices For Open Access Scholarly Literature, Megan Stark, Wendy Walker, Kate Zoellner

All Things Open

Teaching students to integrate Open Access (OA) content into their research strategies is critical in their growth toward information literacy. Learning about OA materials helps students navigate and evaluate valuable scholarly content that is freely available beyond the boundaries of library-subscribed academic content and helps to ensure their continued success post- graduation when they often lose access to paywalled content. New search features and increased OA content in library discovery systems, the temporary lifting of paywalls during COVID, and the cancellation of library databases at the state and local levels due to tightening budgets, among other factors, lead us to …

Building Connection With Community Reads: Opening Up A Learning Community During Isolation And Beyond, Hannah Mendro, Alyssa Berger, Carina Bixby, Joanne Chern, Kat Wyly, Laura Dimmit Smyth

All Things Open

Community Reads at the UW Bothell/Cascadia College Library is a program open to students, staff, and faculty across both our communities with the goal of facilitating conversation around topics of social justice and equity. We use a shared reading (a book, essay, or short story) that aligns with a greater theme as the basis of our programming, but build out from our reading in many different ways. Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and more than a year of virtual learning, the team has focused on providing multiple creative entry points into our readings and discussions, prioritizing alternative ways …

Open Access Scholarship: Amplifying Reach, Enhancing Collaboration, And Empowering Education, Yvonne Earnshaw, Matthew Schmidt

All Things Open

In this presentation, we highlight three benefits of leveraging open educational resources in academia. Our experiences as open access advocates and key contributors to OER projects will be supported by compelling analytics, highlighting the potential of open access publishing. We will first discuss how OER increases impact and visibility in that it liberates research from paywalls, granting unrestricted global access. This wider reach leads to greater readership, amplifying the influence of research within and beyond academia. Next, we will discuss enhanced citations and collaboration, highlighting how open access fosters a culture of knowledge-sharing and community across disciplines, thereby reducing the …

What Should Professors Know About Expensive Textbooks?, Charlene Martoni

All Things Open

Last year during Open Access Week, Georgia State University Library asked its students, "What should professors know about expensive textbooks?" and "What have you done when a textbook was too expensive?" Applying open pedagogical approaches, these questions were displayed on white boards at library service desks on each campus. Students were encouraged to respond to the first question in their own words, and they were asked to respond to the second question by selecting one of five responses. Responses were analyzed and anonymized, and they were then used in faculty professional development to demonstrate the local impact of expensive textbooks. …

Herding Cats To Oer: Overhauling A General Education Curriculum, Dan Hoiland, Silas Brewer, Elizabeth Jacobson

All Things Open

In this session, learn how librarians at Concordia University, St. Paul helped lead an initiative to implement OERs throughout the university’s General Education (GE) curriculum. During the summer term, librarians — along with instructional designers and the LMS team — updated thirteen courses, reworking the curriculum, reenvisioning assignments, and replacing traditional course materials with open or library-licensed content. This initiative resulted in more than $110,000 in savings per semester for full-time students.

Throughout the process, librarians encountered many challenges, including resistance from faculty, replacing entrenched ancillary materials from major publishers (quizzes, labs, etc.), and managing expectations. And while the initiative …

Alabama’S Death Row Archive: Amplifying Marginalized Voices, Jennifer Pate, Katie Owens-Murphy Phd

All Things Open

In 2019 Collier Library hosted an exhibit, Ghosts Over the Boiler, as part of the University of North Alabama’s common read program. This exhibit, developed by English professor Dr. Katie Owens-Murphy and curated by librarian Jennifer Pate, led to the development of both a physical Alabama Death Row Archive and a digital archive housed in the library’s institutional repository, the Repository of Open Access Research (RoOAR). This archive aims to preserve and amplify the work of Project Hope to Abolish the Death Penalty (PHADP), the nation’s only 501(c)(3) organization founded and run by people on death row. The archive …

Open Access Week Open Discussion, Chelsee Dickson, Heather Hankins, Rachel Schrauben Yeates

All Things Open

Join us for an informal conversation about all things open access! Mingle with your hosts and presenters as we chat about new and emerging trends in open scholarship, the future of open access and open science, and other topics. Participants may come and go as they please. This session will not be recorded.

No Corporate Veil Covering Clinical Practice Guidelines!, Karin Bennedsen

All Things Open

Whether working in a clinical setting, as a researcher, or as a student in a health science field, there may come a time when you will need to find clinical practice guidelines. At that point you may wonder, where do they come from, how do I find them, and how do I decide their reliability when I do find them? To begin answering these questions, it’s good to know that most clinical practice guidelines are readily accessible through open access platforms and not hidden behind corporate veils. This facilitates the application of evidence-based medicine across communities, assuring the best medical …

Fair Use Self Defense, Ryland Johnson

All Things Open

Fair Use Self Defense is a meta-workshop that will help you will learn about the application of fair use in an educational setting and will also contextualize the delivery of this information for librarians. We will discuss the basics of fair use and share some fun exercises to help present the fundamentals of copyright law in a fresh way. This presentation aims to open conversation about how copyright best practices are effectively communicated to students and teachers.

The Interactive Research Methods Lab: An Open Innovation, Olga Koz, Ivan Jorrin Abellan, Jim Wright

All Things Open

An open innovation model eliminates traditional barriers between practitioners, universities, and other sources of innovation, research, and development. Open innovation also eliminates boundaries inside a university, including interdisciplinary and interdepartmental ones. The Interactive Research Methods Lab team members will share a short video about the IRML submitted for the Sage Innovators Award and will answer the following questions:

1. Why do we consider the IRML an open innovation?
2. How does the IRML adhere to open access, educational resources, science, and source principles?

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Capitalizing On A Captive Audience: A Collaborative Workshop Connecting Graduate Students To Open Access, Wendy Walker, Catherine Filardi

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The complexities of Open Access can result in uninformed high-stakes decision-making for researchers on the cusp of entering the publishing world. Graduate students need to understand how Open Access influences their research practices, and how to negotiate rights in a complex publishing ecosystem. Here we describe a collaboration between research librarians and writing center professionals that integrates Open Access education into a workshop series on graduate student writing. Specifically, we co-designed a presentation that bridged manuscript preparation (an obvious publication step) with the less-obvious issues surrounding Open Access.

Beyond The Books And Lecture Halls: An Amateur Entrepreneur's Oa Ramblings, Aajay Murphy

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Both academic and entrepreneurial spaces benefit from the use of open resources. This presentation focuses on the latter space, as not every student is going to continue in academia. According to the National Science Foundation's 2012 Science and Engineering Indicators, "less than 17% of new PhDs in science, engineering and health-related fields find tenure-track positions within 3 years after graduation." The numbers are similar across most disciplines. Aajay Murphy prepares students for all potential post-college outcomes in this presentation, not just academia.

Ksu's Digital Course Repository (Dcr), Kimberly S. Loomis, Heather Hankins

All Things Open

During the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, KSU faculty saw an opportunity to teach in the digital space and developed many effective courses in online and hybrid formats. The KSU Distinguished Course Repository (DCR) was created to catalog, recognize excellence, and showcase these courses, and to provide access to others, all in support of ongoing student success. Submitted courses are required to have a Creative Commons Attribution-4.0 International Public License, since they are expected to be shared and modified by future faculty. Publication in the DCR is beneficial to faculty, students, and programs, and the DCR itself is an excellent example of …

Data Sharing Through Open Access Data Repositories, Karin Bennedsen

All Things Open

The National Institutes of Health has expanded their data sharing requirements for obtaining funding to now include all awards for research producing scientific data to accelerate “biomedical research discovery, in part, by enabling validation of research results, providing accessibility to high-value datasets, and promoting data reuse for future research studies.” The new policy requiring a Data Management & Sharing Plan (DMSP) for all applications goes into effect January 25th, 2023. A DMSP includes where the data will be stored. This lightning talk will review Open Access Data Repositories. Don’t let the task of trying to find data storage hold you …

To Move A River: Libraries As Funders For Open Access Publication, Eric Buckenmeyer, Chelsee Dickson

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Much as Ohio University diverted the Hocking River to avoid catastrophic annual flood damage, so too must academic libraries consider alternative means of publishing materials to reduce inflating costs that drive a catastrophic loss of resources. To encourage transformative open access agreements that provide lower-cost and more accessible materials, Eric Buckenmeyer, Interim Teaching & Learning Librarian, and Chelsee Dickson, Scholarly Communications Librarian, have developed a proposal for an open access fund to begin “moving the river” of funding from gaining access to pay-walled materials to funding open access publishing content. In this talk, we discuss a vision of a publishing …

Lessons Learned On Licensing Presentations From An On-Campus Student Research Symposium, Alexa Hight

All Things Open

In Spring 2022, a group of faculty and administrators came together to host a pilot Student Research Symposium, and the library was invited to participate in the planning process. The conference proceedings were published via the TAMU-CC Repository. Digital copies of all posters and presentation materials were also added to the Repository. Due to ongoing research and other concerns, in addition to an embargo option, students were given the option to make their work available only to authenticated campus users. Students were also able to choose a Creative Commons License for their work or choose traditional copyright. This led to …

Searching For Oa Scholarly Content, Olga Koz

All Things Open

Academic search engines have become the number one resource to find scholarly resources. In contrast, search engines of academic databases, like Web of Science and Scopus, harvest research which is locked behind paywalls. Google Scholar and other academic search engines assist in finding open access content as well as the content of commercial databases. Dr. Olga Koz, Senior Research Support Librarian, will present academic search engines that enhance expert research on various academic subject matters.