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Using Cases To Teach Research Data Management, Donna Kafel Nov 2013

Using Cases To Teach Research Data Management, Donna Kafel

Donna Kafel

Presentation on using the research cases in the New England Collaborative Data Management Curriculum to teach data management best practices. Demonstration of how a biomedical research engineering case could be presented to students to teach research data management concepts in a disciplinary context.


Open Access: A Brief Overview, Lisa M. Villa Oct 2013

Open Access: A Brief Overview, Lisa M. Villa

Open Access Week at Holy Cross

This presentation given to the Library Services staff provides a brief overview of the principles of open access and introduces CrossWorks, the institutional repository of the College of the Holy Cross.


Open Access To Scholarly Articles: Good Policies Ensure Good Practices, Jill Cirasella Jan 2013

Open Access To Scholarly Articles: Good Policies Ensure Good Practices, Jill Cirasella

Publications and Research

Open access (OA) to scholarly journal articles is now widely accepted as a good thing. However, it will not become the norm without policies promoting openness. This presentation looks at policies that ensure that hundreds of thousands of articles become OA every year.


Open Access To Scholarly Literature: Which Side Are You On?, Jill Cirasella Jan 2013

Open Access To Scholarly Literature: Which Side Are You On?, Jill Cirasella

Publications and Research

Open access (OA) to scholarly literature recently hit a major milestone: Half of all research articles published become open access, either immediately or after an embargo period. Are the articles you read among them? What about the articles you write? Are the journals to which you submit open-access friendly? What about the journals for which you peer review? Are there any reasons why the public should not have access to the results of taxpayer-funded research?

This presentation explains the motivation for OA, describes the details of OA, and differentiates between publishing in open access journals (“gold” OA) and self-archiving works …