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Bringing Open Science Training Back To Basics: The Foundations In Open Science Oer, Sinéad Hanrahan Mar 2024

Bringing Open Science Training Back To Basics: The Foundations In Open Science Oer, Sinéad Hanrahan

Publications

Open Science (OS) seeks to apply the concept of openness across all stages of research practice. It aims to facilitate the dissemination of research at speed and to foster collaboration between researchers (Foster Open Science, 2023). OS is an essential aspect of Responsible Research Practice (ALLEA, 2017) and integral to addressing the complex problems facing the world (UNESCO, 2021). It is thus imperative that research performing organisations provide effective OS training. Anecdotal evidence gleaned over five years of OS Training provision suggests that researchers have less understanding of foundational research practices than library OS instructors anticipate. This further suggests that …


Digital Commons And Open Access: Utilizing Digitalcommons@Uno And Uno's Open Access Publishing Agreements To Make Your Work Open And Accessible, Jennie Tobler-Gaston Feb 2024

Digital Commons And Open Access: Utilizing Digitalcommons@Uno And Uno's Open Access Publishing Agreements To Make Your Work Open And Accessible, Jennie Tobler-Gaston

Criss Library Faculty Proceedings & Presentations

This presentation covered the University of Nebraska at Omaha's institutional repository, DigitalCommons@UNO, the basics and different types of Open Access and this many open access publishing agreements available for UNO authors.


Make Your Work Accessible: Utilizing Digitalcommons@Uno And Uno's Open Access Publishing Agreements To Make Your Work Open And Accessible, Jennie Tobler-Gaston Sep 2023

Make Your Work Accessible: Utilizing Digitalcommons@Uno And Uno's Open Access Publishing Agreements To Make Your Work Open And Accessible, Jennie Tobler-Gaston

Criss Library Faculty Proceedings & Presentations

This presentation cover UNO’s institutional repository, Digital Commons at UNO, how to deposit your scholarly work in the repository and the benefits of doing so, the basics and different types of open access, and the four Open Access Publishing Agreements that are available and their requirements so you can publish your work open access at no cost.


Digitalcommons@Uno And Building Your Scholarly Profile, Jennie Tobler-Gaston Feb 2023

Digitalcommons@Uno And Building Your Scholarly Profile, Jennie Tobler-Gaston

Criss Library Faculty Proceedings & Presentations

This workshop presented the details of what the University of Nebraska at Omaha's Institutional Repository, DigitalCommons@UNO, is and how to get work uploaded to the repository. It also covered how to build a scholarly profile using the PINPOINT (Portfolio, Institutional repository, Network, Publishing, Open access, ID, Name, and Tracking) method.


Western University Open Access (Oa) Policy Consultations, Bobby Glushko, Courtney L. Waugh Feb 2021

Western University Open Access (Oa) Policy Consultations, Bobby Glushko, Courtney L. Waugh

Western Libraries Presentations

This presentation was developed to guide campus wide open access policy consultations at Western University on behalf of the Provost's Task Force on Open Access.


Open Access, Social Justice, And The Moral Imperative: Why Oa Publishing Matters To Wgs, Sarah P. Appedu Oct 2018

Open Access, Social Justice, And The Moral Imperative: Why Oa Publishing Matters To Wgs, Sarah P. Appedu

All Musselman Library Staff Works

Students in the discipline of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies are uniquely positioned to critically engage with systems of power and apply academic theory to real world practice as a field that has a clear and implicit social justice angle to its scholarship. The Open Access movement can benefit from the critical theories used in WGS as a means of ensuring maximum inclusivity of the movement. Further, WGS students must acknowledge their privileged position within an academic institution and publish in ways that undermine the systems of power that lock up knowledge behind a toll in order to align their …


Open Access At Clemson University, Christopher Vinson, Yang Wu Oct 2018

Open Access At Clemson University, Christopher Vinson, Yang Wu

Presentations

An overview of Open Access practices and resources at Clemson University during Open Access Week 2018.


Where Roads Meet: Electronic Resources And The Current Information Management Climate, William M. Blick Jun 2014

Where Roads Meet: Electronic Resources And The Current Information Management Climate, William M. Blick

Publications and Research

Information management is in flux. Electronic resources are now an essential aspect of Library operations. This presentation was designed to explain the role of electronic resources in an academic library. It traces the "life-cycle" of electronic resources and how the implementation of these resources is determined.


All About Scholarly Publishing, Yuan Li, Bonnie Ryan Jan 2014

All About Scholarly Publishing, Yuan Li, Bonnie Ryan

Libraries' and Librarians' Publications

No abstract provided.


Expanding Access And Increasing Impact: How To Retain Your Rights To Your Research And Why Deposit It In Tigerprints, Andrew Wesolek Oct 2013

Expanding Access And Increasing Impact: How To Retain Your Rights To Your Research And Why Deposit It In Tigerprints, Andrew Wesolek

Presentations

A mounting body of research is beginning to show that making your work Open Access, in any form, increases its impact—but what exactly is "Open Access?" Head of Digital Scholarship, Andrew Wesolek will discuss the scholarly communication system and the varieties of Open Access publication. In addition, Wesolek will discuss your options to retain and assert your rights to your scholarship and how you can disseminate it openly through a new Library initiative: the TigerPrints institutional repository.


Biodiversity Heritage Library: A Successful Collaboration, A Fully Open Access Collection, Marty Schlabach Jan 2013

Biodiversity Heritage Library: A Successful Collaboration, A Fully Open Access Collection, Marty Schlabach

Upstate New York Science Librarians Conference

No abstract provided.


E-Valuating Local Collections For Open Acces: The Nlu Experience, Rob Morrison, Deana Greenfield Sep 2011

E-Valuating Local Collections For Open Acces: The Nlu Experience, Rob Morrison, Deana Greenfield

Faculty Publications

National Louis University (NLU) provides access to local collections through an Institutional Repository and Special Collections and Archives digital collections. We use open access as an effective and value-added method for contributing to scholarship and outreach to different communities, including alumni. As NLU celebrates our 125th anniversary this year, we utilize digital collections to promote and provide access to our unique history. This presentation will discuss materials selected for inclusion and the multiple ways open access collections can contribute to a university's scholarship and reputation.


Scholarly Communication: Solving A Global Crisis - Farrell, Thomas Farrell Apr 2008

Scholarly Communication: Solving A Global Crisis - Farrell, Thomas Farrell

Staff publications, research, and presentations

This is part of a presentation from the 2008 12th Biennial CARL Conference. It offers an overview of the history of Scholarly Communication and the Open Access movement, with examples from around the world. Other presentations from this CARL panel are available at: http://carl-acrl.org/Archives/ConferencesArchive/Conference08/during/breakout.html