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Author Rights And Publishing Today: What You Should Know. Why You Should Care., Denise Troll Covey
Author Rights And Publishing Today: What You Should Know. Why You Should Care., Denise Troll Covey
Denise Troll Covey
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Recruiting Content For The Institutional Repository: The Barriers Exceed The Benefits, Denise Troll Covey
Recruiting Content For The Institutional Repository: The Barriers Exceed The Benefits, Denise Troll Covey
Denise Troll Covey
Focus groups conducted at Carnegie Mellon reveal that what motivates many faculty to self-archive on a website or disciplinary repository will not motivate them to deposit their work in the institutional repository. Recruiting a critical mass of content for the institutional repository is contingent on increasing awareness, aligning deposit with existing workflows, and providing value-added services that meet needs not currently being met by other tools. Faculty share concerns about quality and the payoff for time invested in publishing and disseminating their work, but disagree about metrics for assessing quality, the merit of disseminating work prior to peer review, and …
Open Access And Library Resources Compete In Importance, Denise Troll Covey, Janel Sutkus
Open Access And Library Resources Compete In Importance, Denise Troll Covey, Janel Sutkus
Denise Troll Covey
Few assessments of academic library value have included the value of open access resources, despite widespread agreement that dramatic changes in the scholarly landscape challenge the library's relevance and viability. This paper reports on faculty and graduate student perceptions of the relative importance of various resources to particular teaching and research activities. Open access resources compete in importance with full-text digital resources provided by the library. Both are more important to research than teaching, but open access resources are the most important resource in some teaching activities.