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2014

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Full-Text Articles in Social and Behavioral Sciences

Ripple Effect: Etds, Workflows, And Policies One Year After "A Bigger Splash", Todd Bruns, Stacey Knight-Davis Jul 2014

Ripple Effect: Etds, Workflows, And Policies One Year After "A Bigger Splash", Todd Bruns, Stacey Knight-Davis

Todd A. Bruns

NOTE: A revised and updated version of this presentation was given at the 2014 United States Electronic Theses and Dissertations Association annual conference in Orlando FL in September 2014. Since 2008 EIU has been digitizing ETDs and making them available via the library catalog, I-Share (the state of IL consortia catalog), and WorldCat. It was only after ETDs were included in the institutional repository (The Keep) that the majority of faculty became fully aware of how accessible these theses had become. This dawning realization led to important conversations with faculty and other stakeholders about concerns regarding publishing, grant approval, and …


The Open Education Initiative, Faculty Senate Spring 2014, Marilyn Billings, Charlotte Roh Apr 2014

The Open Education Initiative, Faculty Senate Spring 2014, Marilyn Billings, Charlotte Roh

Charlotte Roh

This is a presentation made to the Faculty Senate Meeting at the University of Massachusetts Amherst regarding the Open Education Initiative (OEI). It includes an overview of the why and how of the OEI grant, some examples, and its successes/challenges.