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Winning Friends And Influencing People: Oer And Higher Education Affordability, Marilyn K. Moody

Library Faculty and Staff Publications and Presentations

Higher Education stakeholders, including students, parents, faculty, administrators, legislators, state higher education boards, trustees, alumni, and donors are all concerned about the high cost of education and its impact on students. Positioning OER within the broader context of college affordability creates interest in the creation and use of OER, as well as powerful allies for OER initiatives. Approaches and examples of how to communicate OER value for affordability efforts and influence these varied stakeholders will be included in this presentation. Portland State University and its use of OER and the creation of open textbooks in the context of university initiatives …

Scholars' Mine Quick Facts November 2016, James Roger Weaver

Scholars’ Mine Statistics

Scholars' Mine statistical quick facts for November 2016.

The Sky’S The Limit: Scholarly Communication, Digital Initiatives, Institutional Repositories, And Subject Librarians, Lee Dotson, Richard Harrison, Sarah A. Norris, Barbara Tierney

Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

A panel presentation presented at the 2016 Charleston Conference in Charleston, South Carolina.

The University of Central Florida's institutional repository, STARS (Showcase of Text, Archives, Research & Scholarship), has presented new opportunities for collaboration amongst the Libraries' Office of Scholarly Communication, Digital Initiatives, Research Services, and Subject Librarians. Building on efforts to proactively promote scholarly communication initiatives to the university community, these four units have used the institutional repository as a foundation for collaboration, outreach, marketing and educational efforts. This presentation will give an overview of STARS and highlight the role the IR has in increasing the collaborative efforts of …

Keeping Up With… Open Peer Review, Emily Ford

Library Faculty and Staff Publications and Presentations

Open Peer Review is a current and developing practice in scholarly publishing that librarians need to continue to explore and discuss. To that end ACRL should continue to support experiments with and conversations about OPR in its publications. As academic librarians, we observe and engage with new practices in scholarly communication, and OPR should be no exception. Whether academic librarianship embraces OPR as a model of peer review for its publications, or we simply observe experiments in other disciplines, we can position ourselves to better support our patrons and our publishing ventures by examining OPR.

Citations Increase With Manuscript Length, Author Number, And References Cited In Ecology Journals, Charles W. Fox, C. E. Timothy Paine, Boris Sauterey

Entomology Faculty Publications

Most top impact factor ecology journals indicate a preference or requirement for short manuscripts; some state clearly defined word limits, whereas others indicate a preference for more concise papers. Yet evidence from a variety of academic fields indicates that within journals longer papers are both more positively reviewed by referees and more highly cited. We examine the relationship between citations received and manuscript length, number of authors, and number of references cited for papers published in 32 ecology journals between 2009 and 2012. We find that longer papers, those with more authors, and those that cite more references are cited …

United States Environmental Protection Agency Response To The Office Of Science And Technology Policy Memo, 2013: Public Access Plan (November 2016)

Copyright, Fair Use, Scholarly Communication, etc.

EPA response to OSTP memo, 2013: Public Access Plan (November 2016)

U.S. Federal Mandates & Open Access, Emily L. Poworoznek

Open Access Events

U.S. federal agencies with annual research & development expenditures over $100 million are now required to increase access to the results of funded research. We’ll look at what this means for researchers and their audiences.

Increase The Global Impact Of Your Scholarship With Open Access, Karen Vaughan, Corrie Marsh

Open Access Week

Learn how your scholarly and creative works can have a global impact. As an author/creator, you can ensure that your work will be accessible to the widest possible audience. To facilitate Open Access, we will review copyright contracts and discuss how to negotiate with journal publishers to retain author rights.

This event is jointly hosted by the University Libraries and Office of Research for Open Access Week 2016.

Increasing Your Impact: How Institutional Repositories Support And Disseminate Research, Todd Bruns

Faculty & Staff Research & Creative Activity

No abstract provided.

Finding The Public Domain: The Copyright Review Management System, Melissa Levine

Copyright, Fair Use, Scholarly Communication, etc.

Historically, copyright review has been uncoordinated and has taken place on a modest scale. The Copyright Review Management System (CRMS) changes that. 1 CRMS was supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services over three National Leadership Grants. It was led by the University of Michigan in collaboration with 19 other highly dedicated research libraries. Together, we developed a system to train and coordinate reviewers to assess the copyright status of digitized books held in the HathiTrust Digital Library. Over the course of the three interrelated grants that make up the CRMS project, we developed expertise in managing a …

Intro To Oers - A Game Changer For Higher Ed, Julie Cuccio Slichko Dr., Elaine M. Lasda

Open Access Day

No abstract provided.

Opening Science: Increasing Access To Federally Funded Research, Jerry Sheehan

Open Access Day

Increasing Access to Federally Funded Research: Summarizes the considerable progress that Federal departments and agencies have made increasing public access to the results of Federally-supported scientific research and advancing the broader notion of open science. In this session, Jerry Sheehan, talks about sixteen agencies that now require researchers to ensure free public access to peer-reviewed publications resulting from all newly-funded research, with a delay of not more than 12 months after the publication date, and all agencies now have repositories to enhance accessibility to such research.

Scholars Archive Snapshot: Showcase Your Research, Lindsay Van Berkom, Jodi Boyle, Wendy L. West

Open Access Day

Scholars Archive is the University at Albany's Institutional Repository (IR). Scholars Archive provides a way for the University at Albany, faculty, staff, researchers and students to collect their scholarly work in a centralized place where it will be preserved, stored securely and easily shared. This session will highlight some of the benefits that Scholars Archive can offer. Jodi Boyle and Wendy West, both from the University at Albany Libraries, share their experiences with Scholars Archive.

Practice Safe Publishing: Finding A Great Oa Journal, Eleta Exline

Open Access Events

Avoid publishing scams and learn how to find a high-quality Open Access journal for your next article.

The Scholarly Publishing Crisis, Jennifer Carroll

Open Access Events

Learn about the recent global history of scholarly publishing and its affects on the UNH Libraries. Open Access publishing offers one possible solution to the budget pressures we face.

Scholarship That's Scholar-Led: An Introduction To Open Access, Megan Wacha

Publications and Research

This webinar provides an introduction to open access publishing models, and the foundation for understanding them not only as a recent development in scholarly communication, but as a return to scholar-led publishing practices.

Heard On The Net: Developing The Balance Of Discovery And Respect With Primary Resources, Jill Emery, Peggy Glahn, Tara Robertson

Library Faculty and Staff Publications and Presentations

Within libraryland social media this past spring and summer, an emerging story began to unfold. A relatively new upstart company, Reveal Digital has begun developing digital archives of primary resources which are funded by institutions pledging upfront support. The eventual result of this work will be collections made available as Open Access content to everyone. The majority of the content is being sourced from research libraries’ archival collections. Those pledging money get early access to the content as it is being digitized and made available. In addition, source libraries obtain digital copies that they can dark archive. Pledging libraries also …

Researcher Profiles, Amanda Izenstark, Julia Lovett, Andrée Rathemacher

Technical Services Faculty Presentations

Slides from a presentation, "Researcher Profiles."

Presented as part of the Search Savvy Seminar "You Developed It — Now Share It! Researcher Profiles and Data Management," offered at the University of Rhode Island Libraries on October 21 and 25, 2016.

"You’ve done the research, you’ve written the article or book chapter, or you’ve given the presentation. Now, how do you share it so that you maximize your research impact? This session will lead you through setting up researcher profiles in SelectedWorks, ORCID, ResearcherID, and Google Scholar, and get you started with data management."

Part of the University Libraries' Search Savvy …

How Much Do Monographs Cost? And Why Should We Care?, Nancy L. Maron, Charles Watkinson, Meredith Kahn, Shayna Pekala

Charleston Library Conference

What does it cost to make a high quality, digital monograph? What may sound like an obvious question turns out to be a very knotty one, driving to the heart of the essence of scholarly publishing today. It is particularly relevant in an environment where the potential of a sustainable open access (OA) business model for monographs is being explored. Two complementary studies funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in 2015 have explored this question to understand the costs involved in creating and disseminating scholarly books.

The team at Ithaka S+R studied the full costs of publishing monographs by …

Open Access Funds: Getting A Bigger Bang For Our Bucks, Robert Glushko, Crystal Hampson, Patricia Moore, Elizabeth Yates

Charleston Library Conference

Many libraries offer open access publishing funds to support authors in paying article processing charges (APC) levied by some OA journals. However, there are few standard practices for managing or assessing these funds. The Open Access Working Group (OAWG) of the Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) was asked to investigate and articulate best practices for successful open access fund management. In spring 2015, the OAWG surveyed Canadian academic libraries with OA funds to review their criteria and collect feedback on current practices. The survey proved timely because many OA funds are under review. Shrinking budgets, ending pilots, and questions …

“Help, We Started A Journal!”: Adventures In Supporting Open Access Publishing Using Open Journal Systems, Anna R. Craft

Charleston Library Conference

The University Libraries at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG) have an active and growing implementation of Open Journal Systems (OJS), a free, open source scholarly publishing platform. But even a free software system is not without its costs, both to the hosting institution and to the creators and staff of individual journals. Institutions that wish to host OJS must be able to install, maintain, and support the product. And while faculty members and other academics are often experts in their content areas, not all of them are prepared to handle other needs associated with creating and publishing …

E‐Book Tune‐Up: Maintaining, Sustaining, And Expanding Your Demand‐Driven E‐Book Program, Caroline Mills, Janet A. Nazar, Michelle R. Desilets, Nathan Carlson

Charleston Library Conference

Just like a car, an e‐book program needs continuous maintenance in order to run smoothly. What can we do to structure our e‐book collections to better meet institutional need? Many factors come into play in building a successful demand‐driven acquisition (DDA) program. Student preferences, actual use, collection development, and faculty/staff education and support are all important aspects of maintaining and sustaining a DDA program. This paper describes how the Furman University Library in South Carolina and the Metropolitan State University Library (Metro State) in Minnesota assessed and fine‐tuned their respective DDA programs, and the results of these changes.

Cc‐By: Is There Such A Thing As Too Open In Open Access?, Leetta M. Schmidt, Kyle K. Courtney, Calvin Manning

Charleston Library Conference

Support and demand for researchers to publish in open access (OA) journals has been growing steadily among funding agencies, research organizations, and institutions of higher education. The Wellcome Trust and the Research Councils UK OA policies have begun imposing more finite restrictions, like publishing only under CC‐BY licenses, on researchers. CC‐BY, or Creative Commons Attribution, is one of several, and the most open, of all creative commons licensing. It most closely embodies the definition of OA, as established by the Berlin Declaration and Bethesda Statement on Open Access, by allowing for the most reuse, including the unrestricted creation of derivatives. …

The Secret Life Of Articles: From Download Metrics To Downstream Impact, Carol Tenopir, Lorraine Estelle, Wouter Haak

Charleston Library Conference

No abstract provided.

Managing, Marketing, And Measuring Open Resources, Trey Shelton, Steven Carrico, Ann Lindell, Tara T. Cataldo

Charleston Library Conference

Academic libraries face many opportunities and challenges in managing, marketing, and measuring open resources (OR). Many questions arise when incorporating OR into an academic library collection. How do libraries select quality OR for inclusion in the collection? What tools and practices are used to manage electronic access? How can libraries better market OR to faculty? How can libraries measure the use and usefulness of OR? This paper outlines a project launched to improve the management of OR at the University of Florida’s George A. Smathers Libraries; as well as incorporating feedback garnered at the Charleston Conference discussion forum on the …

Where To Publish: Undergraduate Workshop, Sarah A. Norris

Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

Workshop given to undergraduate students on October 11, 2016. The workshop provides information about where to publish as an undergraduate student and includes both academic and non-academic publishing.

Engaging Student Journal Editors, Janelle L. Wertzberger

All Musselman Library Staff Works

Editing and publishing a student research journal is a high-impact educational practice that libraries are uniquely suited to support. Gettysburg College’s Musselman Library hosts three student-edited journals in our open access institutional repository. We train student editors to use the online journal publishing platform to receive, assign, and review submissions. We also expose them to the scope of undergraduate publishing beyond our institution, describe the benefits of open access publishing to authors (including sharing their own use metrics), invite professors who edit professional journals to share their expertise with the students, and facilitate a discussion about how their editing process …

How We Added 100 Yearbooks To Our Ir, Sarah Hickey

Ohio IR Day

Sarah Hickey of Otterbein University discussed how she and her team added 100 yearbooks to their Digital Commons institutional repository, DigitalCommons @ Otterbein.

Open Access: What Is The Climate For Oa Publishing And Institutional Repositories In Ohio In 2016?, Maureen Schlangen

Ohio IR Day

Presentation by Maureen Schlangen of the University of Dayton makes a case for a survey of faculty at Ohio institutions to gauge openness to Open Access archiving and publishing. Those interested in conducting the survey on their campuses are invited to contact the author using the email provided.

Detailed Search Stats From Dspace Solr, Eric Johnson

Ohio IR Day

Eric Johnson of Miami University, Ohio, discussed obtaining more detailed usage statistics for Miami University's DSpace institutional repository using Solr.