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San Francisco Declaration On Research Assessment (Dora), The American Society For Cell Biology

Copyright, Fair Use, Scholarly Communication, etc.

There is a pressing need to improve the ways in which the output of scientific research is evaluated by funding agencies, academic institutions, and other parties.To address this issue, a group of editors and publishers of scholarly journals met during the Annual Meeting of The American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) in San Francisco, CA, on December 16, 2012. The group developed a set of recommendations, referred to as the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment. We invite interested parties across all scientific disciplines to indicate their support by adding their names to this Declaration. The outputs from scientific research …

Data Curation Is For Everyone! The Case For Master's And Baccalaureate Institutional Engagement With Data Curation, Yasmeen Shorish

Libraries

This article describes the fundamental challenges to data curation, how these challenges may be compounded for smaller institutions, and how data management is an essential and manageable component of data curation. Data curation is often discussed within the confines of large research universities. As a result, master's and baccalaureate institutions may be left with the impression that they cannot engage with data curation. However, by proactively engaging with faculty, libraries of all sizes can build closer relationships and help educate faculty on data documentation and organizational best practices. This article describes experiences from one master's comprehensive institution as it engages …

Information Outlook, November/December 2012, Special Libraries Association

Information Outlook, 2012

Volume 16, Issue 6

Purdue University Research Repository: A Dataset Solution, Courtney E. Matthews

Libraries Faculty and Staff Presentations

The Purdue University Research Repository (PURR) is the free, online research data collaboration platform and data management service solution for Purdue researchers made possible through a partnership of the Purdue University Libraries, the Office of Vice-President Research, and Information Technology at Purdue. PURR provides researchers with a virtual project collaboration space, the ability to issue dataset publications with unique Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs), while meeting the challenges of dataset accessibility and preservation. In doing so PURR exemplifies the continued role of Libraries in the research life-cycle of the university by providing a tool and a suite of services that ensure …

Open Access & Beyond: The Nuts And Bolts Of Repositories, Todd Bruns

Faculty & Staff Research & Creative Activity

No abstract provided.

The Research Lifecycle: A Mental Model Of Research Support And Services At Ucf, Lee Dotson, Rich Gause, Selma Jaskowski

Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

No abstract provided.

Scholarship Unlocked: The Future Of Open Access, David Solomon

Scholarship Unlocked: The Future of Open Access

The goals of this talk are:

• Place Open Access (OA) in a historical context
• Provide an overview research on the growth and direction of Open Access publishing/archiving
• Discuss some of new directions in OA and scholarly communication

The presentation slides are available by clicking the Download button on the right.

The above video is available for download in mp4 format by clicking the link listed below Additional Files.

Digital Collections And Scholarly Communication, Eleta Exline

University Library Scholarship

In this brief presentation I gave an overview of the University Library’s Digital Collections and Scholarly Communication Initiatives.

Presentation delivered to the delegation from Chengdu University, China, University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire. October 5, 2012

Information Outlook, September/October 2012, Special Libraries Association

Information Outlook, 2012

Volume 16, Issue 5

The Research Lifecycle At Ucf: A Library-Led Institutional Collaboration To Develop A Mental Model Of Research Support And Services, Lee Dotson, Corinne Bishop, Penny Beile

Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

Presented at the Florida Association of College & Research Libraries Fall Program, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, October 2012.

Purr: A Research Data Curation Service Model Using Hubzero, Courtney E. Matthews, Michael Witt

Libraries Faculty and Staff Presentations

The Purdue University Research Repository (PURR, http://research.hub.purdue.edu) uses HUBzero to provide a research collaboration and data management solution for campus researchers. The National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, and other funding agencies have begun requiring that researchers describe in their grant proposals how they will manage and share the data that will be produced in their research. Purdue researchers can include PURR in their data management plans, invite collaborators to work with them in a private projects on PURR, and publish datasets that can be cited using Digital Object Identifiers (DOI). This presentation will explore Purdue’s data …

A Librarian's Defense Of The Practicable Over The Perfect In Scholarly Communication, Jill Cirasella

Publications and Research

This peer commentary is an invited response to "Scientific Utopia: I. Opening Scientific Communication" by Brian A. Nosek and Yoav Bar-Anan. It appeared alongside the target article in Psychological Inquiry, Volume 23, Issue 3, 2012.

Information Outlook, July/August 2012, Special Libraries Association

Information Outlook, 2012

Volume 16, Issue 4

Product Review: Mendeley Or Zotero: Which Should The Mobile Researcher Use?, Laura Pope Robbins

Publications

Laura Pope Robbins is an advisor for The Charleston Advisor, and the comparative review below is included in Scholarly Commons with the permission of the publisher.

Today’s bibliographic managers provide cloud storage so that papers can be attached to citations and syncing services, in order for papers and citations to be available in multiple mediums. Mendeley and Zotero are two services that offer online storage of papers and citations, desktop applications, and tablet integration. Mendeley has an iPad application and an open API so that developers can create apps for Android tablets. Zotero is an open-source project that encourages developers …

Information Outlook May/June 2012, Special Libraries Association

Information Outlook, 2012

Volume 16, Issue 3

So You Think You Can Manage An Institutional Repository, Silke Higgins, Crystal Goldman

Faculty and Staff Publications

Traditionally, academic libraries have held the responsibility of housing, disseminating, and preserving the scholarly output of their universities. These materials, including but not limited to student dissertations and theses, as well as faculty publications were--and still are-- primarily held in the libraries’ archives and special collections departments. With the unstoppable march of bits and bites, academic libraries experience an increasingly strong push towards preserving digital records of scholarly output in electronic Institutional Repositories (IR). While undeniably an exciting and versatile invention, the establishment and management of an IR can at the same time be an intimidating endeavor.Over the course of …

Information Outlook, March/April 2012, Special Libraries Association

Information Outlook, 2012

Volume 16, Issue 2

2012 Spring - Friendly Correspondence Newsletter, Courtright Memorial Library

Friends of the Library

No abstract provided.

Queensborough Community College: Textbook Reserves, Sheila Beck

Publications and Research

This paper examines the textbook reserve collection at Queensborough Community College. Although the collection is heavily used in its current configuration, the library is looking for less labor intensive and less costly alternatives.

The cost of textbooks is skyrocketting. Textbooks are a major, unexpected bill for many students beginning college. Students and their family, used to having their textbooks provided or loaned free of charge at the start of the school year, face often large and unexpected bills when the first term begins. Many times, financial aid does not cover the cost of the books;. Even if it is covered …

Information Outlook January/February 2012, Special Libraries Association

Information Outlook, 2012

Volume 16, Issue 1

Expanding Public Access To The Results Of Federally Funded Research, Joan Giesecke

Copyright, Fair Use, Scholarly Communication, etc.

The complete collection of articles resulting from publicly funded research should be made freely accessible, so that the public can fully use them – (i.e. text mine, data mine, compute on them, create derivative works) without commercial restriction.

Public access policies can be successfully implemented by respecting and working within the current copyright framework.

The federal government is the appropriate entity to provide permanent stewardship of these articles, and is in a unique position to ensure that publicly funded articles are permanently preserved, made accessible, and useable.

Publishers are one player that might be encouraged to participate in public/private partnership …

A Few Thoughts On Evidence In Social Work, Gary Holden, Ellen Tuchman, Kathleen Barker, Gary Rosenberg, May, Sofie Kuppens, Katie Watson

Publications and Research

Social work practitioners must act every working day in the face of uncertainty. This uncertainty arises in part because knowledge is often difficult to locate or sometimes lacking regarding: the systems context the population being served; the particular client system; the set of problems the client system is experiencing; as well as the various interventions that could be selected. It seems reasonable to explore ways to reduce the experience of uncertainty, and narrow, if not eliminate, the knowledge gaps that arise in such situations. The generic idea of evidence based practice has been advanced for some time as an approach …

Review Of Copyright Law For Librarians And Educators: Creative Strategies And Practical Solutions, Third Edition, By Kenneth D. Crews, James Roger Weaver

University Libraries Faculty Research & Creative Works

No abstract provided.

Finding Citations To Social Work Literature: The Relative Benefits Of Using Web Of Science, Scopus, Or Google Scholar, Elaine M. Lasda Bergman

University Libraries Faculty Scholarship

Past studies of citation coverage of Web of Science, Scopus, and Google Scholar do not demonstrate a consistent pattern that can be applied to the interdisciplinary mix of resources used in social work research. To determine the utility of these tools to social work researchers, an analysis of citing references to well-known social work journals was conducted. Web of Science had the fewest citing references and almost no variety in source format. Scopus provided higher citation counts, but the pattern of coverage was similar toWeb of Science. Google Scholar provided substantially more citing references, but only …

Libraries And General Education: New Strategies To Enhance Freshman Orientation, Faculty Collaboration, And Curriculum Development, Carl R. Andrews

Publications and Research

My research will attempt to re-evaluate the academic library's role in supporting a general education program. The emphasis will focus on student centeredness, faculty collaboration, outreach and curriculum support. In the short time that I have worked in academic libraries I have learned that quality customer service and reference desk work is far from the list of priorities in some settings. Coming from the public library I found this to be unacceptable. We are service providers and the way in which we communicate with students and faculty is important. As professionals we should do more in the way of making …

Trends In Library Collaboration: Deeper, Wider, And Riskier, Valerie Horton

Collaborative Librarianship

No abstract provided.

Thick And Thin Library Collaboration, Ivan Gaetz

Collaborative Librarianship

No abstract provided.

Co-Teaching Relationships Among Librarians And Other Information Professionals, Ann Medaill, Amy W. Shannon

Collaborative Librarianship

This article uses the co-teaching experiences of workshop instructors at the University of Nevada, Reno Libraries as a basis for an in-depth exploration of the factors that lead to successful co-teaching arrangements among librarians and other information professionals. The experiences of these instructors demonstrate that co-teaching can provide numerous benefits: It can enhance the learning experience for students, it can provide a method for refining teaching skills, it can promote successful collaborations across departments, and it can bring innovative ideas into the classroom. Drawing on collaboration research from the Wilder Foundation, this study found that successful co-teaching relationships are characterized …

Innovation Through Collaboration – The Orbis Cascade Alliance Shared Library Management Services Experience: An Interview With John F. Helme, John F. Helmer, Stephen Bosch, Chris Sugnet, J. Cory Tucker

Collaborative Librarianship

No abstract provided.

Tribute To A Cooperative Pioneer: Bill Dejohn, Cecelia N. Boone

Collaborative Librarianship

No abstract provided.