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Micah Vandegrift Keynote - Open To Change: Possibilities And Probabilities, Micah Vandegrift Oct 2022

Micah Vandegrift Keynote - Open To Change: Possibilities And Probabilities, Micah Vandegrift

Open Access Week

The grand challenges of our day are being met with grand visions for the future. An opportunity sits at the intersection of climate change, open science, and community engagement. This talk speaks to what is distinctive about that opportunity in 2022, especially in light of the fresh directions in U.S. research policy, and offers a case study in what that might look like. Mr. Vandegrift speaks from experience and his recent research, and provides attendees with a foundation and a forecast.

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Open Access And Copyright For Theses And Dissertations, Erin Jerome Oct 2017

Open Access And Copyright For Theses And Dissertations, Erin Jerome

Open Access Week

What is the benefit for choosing open access for your dissertation or thesis? How can your copyright choices help or hurt your scholarship? In this workshop, librarian Erin Jerome will present an overview of open access, copyright, and fair use as it relates to your research. We will also allow for plenty of time to discuss your thoughts and questions about these issues.

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Fostering Change: Evaluating Digital Scholarship For Professional Credit, Seth Denbo Oct 2017

Fostering Change: Evaluating Digital Scholarship For Professional Credit, Seth Denbo

Open Access Week

As the field of digital humanities becomes an ever more important facet of both research and teaching, we need to find means for ensuring that the work is properly evaluated and that credit is given to the scholars who engage in it. The problems associated with developing this are complex, and new modes of research and publication have proven difficult to incorporate into disciplines that have traditionally put high value on print. Scholarly societies have an important role to play in encouraging creative thought and action about how best to accommodate these new modes within our disciplines.

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Full Schedule For 2017 Open Access Week Events At The University Of Massachusetts Amherst, Erin Jerome Oct 2017

Full Schedule For 2017 Open Access Week Events At The University Of Massachusetts Amherst, Erin Jerome

Open Access Week

The UMass Amherst Libraries will host a series of events as part of Open Access Week 2017 pertaining to copyright and fair use, open access, electronic theses and dissertations, open technologies, and open data.

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Open Access And Funder Mandates, Thea Atwood Oct 2016

Open Access And Funder Mandates, Thea Atwood

Open Access Week

This workshop will provide an introduction to the current state of funder mandates and the library resources available to you to facilitate meeting compliance requirements. Thea Atwood, the Libraries’ Data Specialist, will cover the requirements of the top funders (and provide methods to gain information on the requirements for other funding agencies), resources to help you write your data management plan, the benefit of adding a digital object identifier (DOI) to your work, and sharing your scholarly outputs with ScholarWorks – both publications and data. Co-sponsored by the University Libraries and the Office of Research.

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Open Access And Copyright For Theses And Dissertations, Erin Jerome Oct 2016

Open Access And Copyright For Theses And Dissertations, Erin Jerome

Open Access Week

What is the benefit for choosing open access for your dissertation or thesis? How can your copyright choices help or hurt your scholarship? In this workshop, an overview of open access, copyright, and fair use as it relates to your thesis or dissertation will be presented. We will also allow for plenty of time to discuss your thoughts and questions about these issues.

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Full Schedule For 2016 Open Access Week Events At The University Of Massachusetts Amherst., Marilyn S. Billings Oct 2016

Full Schedule For 2016 Open Access Week Events At The University Of Massachusetts Amherst., Marilyn S. Billings

Open Access Week

The UMass Amherst Libraries, the UMass Graduate School, and the Office of Research hosts a series of Open Access Week 2016 events relevant to open access, copyright and fair use, data sharing, and electronic theses and dissertations. All events are free and open to the public.

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2015 Open Access Week Full Schedule, Marilyn S. Billings Oct 2015