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Will Open Access Get Me Cited? An Analysis Of The Efficacy Of Open Access Publishing In Political Science, Amy Atchison, Jonathan Bull Dec 2014

Will Open Access Get Me Cited? An Analysis Of The Efficacy Of Open Access Publishing In Political Science, Amy Atchison, Jonathan Bull

Library Faculty Publications

The digital revolution has made it easier for Political Scientists to share and access high-quality research online. However, many of these articles are stored in proprietary databases that some institutions cannot afford. High-quality, peer reviewed, top-tier journal articles that have been made open access (freely available online) should theoretically be more easily accessed and cited than articles of similar quality that are only available to paying customers. Research into the efficacy of Open Access (OA) publishing has thus far focused mainly on the natural sciences, and the results have been mixed. Because OA has not been as widely adopted in …


Copyright, Fair Use And The Digital Age In Academic Libraries: A Review Of The Literature, Amanda Mccormick Dec 2014

Copyright, Fair Use And The Digital Age In Academic Libraries: A Review Of The Literature, Amanda Mccormick

School of Information Student Research Journal

Copyright law in the United States has gained a certain notoriety for its complexity and ambiguity, which has only been compounded by the evolution (or, some would say, revolution) of print resources to electronic resources. The purpose of this literature review is to review the current understanding of copyright law within the context of academic libraries in universities and colleges. Additionally, this review will describe what issues academic librarians face in complying with copyright law in this new digital age while continuing to perform duties such as processing course reserve materials, developing an institutional repository, and maintaining a digital collection. …


Social, Legal, And Technical Issues In The Library, Adrienne Mathewson Dec 2014

Social, Legal, And Technical Issues In The Library, Adrienne Mathewson

School of Information Student Research Journal

No abstract provided.


Slis Connecting, Volume 3, Issue 2, Teresa S. Welsh Dec 2014

Slis Connecting, Volume 3, Issue 2, Teresa S. Welsh

SLIS Connecting

Entire issue of SLIS Connecting, Volume 3, Issue 2


A Comparison Of Public Versus Private Academic Library Web Sites In Alabama For Accessibility And Web 2.0 Applications, Amy E. Smith Dec 2014

A Comparison Of Public Versus Private Academic Library Web Sites In Alabama For Accessibility And Web 2.0 Applications, Amy E. Smith

SLIS Connecting

The purpose of this study is to analyze and compare Alabama’s academic library Web sites to determine how accessible they are for persons with disabilities and what kind of useful links such as tutorials and Web 2.0 applications can be found on the home pages. The importance of this study is to determine the accessibility and readability of academic library Web site home pages based off of the current WCAG 2.0 guidelines, as well as the availability of Web 2.0 tools and tutorials on library home pages. By studying the results of the Web site accessibility software, college and university …


Analysis Of Primers In The De Grummond Children’S Literature Collection, Preston R. Salisbury Dec 2014

Analysis Of Primers In The De Grummond Children’S Literature Collection, Preston R. Salisbury

SLIS Connecting

This study examines the primers collected in the de Grummond Children’s Literature Collection at the University of Southern Mississippi. “The de Grummond Children’s Literature Collection is one of North America’s leading research centers in the field of children’s literature,” with a main focus on American and British literature both historical and contemporary (lib.usm.edu). Specific characteristics of the primers examined in this study include publication year, publisher, and stories and illustrations used in the content. These data provide a general view of the development of the primer both for educative and socio-political purposes over time.


A Brief Historical Evolution Of The International Tracing Service (Its): The Largest Collection Of Holocaust Related Documents, Kate Brunelle Dec 2014

A Brief Historical Evolution Of The International Tracing Service (Its): The Largest Collection Of Holocaust Related Documents, Kate Brunelle

SLIS Connecting

The International Tracing Service is the largest repository for World War II records, including Holocaust records. However, it was not until recently that the ITS opened its records to researchers and institutions outside of Germany. Previously, survivors and others could write to the ITS and request information about themselves or others, but the response time was long, difficult, and often lacking in tangible results. With the opening of the ITS, people around the world have better access to the records for seemingly endless research. Includes a case study.


Read With Me: My Personal Experience With A Lis 641 Service Learning Project, Mary Ann Griffin Dec 2014

Read With Me: My Personal Experience With A Lis 641 Service Learning Project, Mary Ann Griffin

SLIS Connecting

At the University of Southern Mississippi’s School of Library and Information Science, LIS 641: Public Libraries has an emphasis on service learning and community relationships. In an all-online program, service learning can be challenging and part of that challenge was for the students to initiate their own service learning project. This was a prime time to promote the community project, Read with Me.


From The Gas, Congratulations, Publications, And Presentations, Teresa S. Welsh Dec 2014

From The Gas, Congratulations, Publications, And Presentations, Teresa S. Welsh

SLIS Connecting

Meet the new SLIS GAs, and all about what our alum, students, and faculty have been doing.


Student Associations And Upcoming Events, Teresa S. Welsh Dec 2014

Student Associations And Upcoming Events, Teresa S. Welsh

SLIS Connecting

Presents updates and news from the Library and Information Science Student Association (LISSA) and the Southern Miss Student Archivists Association (Southern Miss SAA) along with upcoming and recent events of interest.


Spotlights: Faculty, Alum, And Course, Teresa S. Welsh Dec 2014

Spotlights: Faculty, Alum, And Course, Teresa S. Welsh

SLIS Connecting

Meet Instructor Edmand Pace of The School of Library and Information Science, and SLIS alum, Mantra Henderson, Director of the James Herbert White Library at Mississippi Valley State University. Discover how you can become an expert in Government Publications, Law Libraries, and Health Informatics.


Slis Update, Elizabeth Haynes Dec 2014

Slis Update, Elizabeth Haynes

SLIS Connecting

Updates and welcome from the Director of the School of Library and Information Science, Dr. Elizabeth Haynes.


Small School, Big Reach: Open Access Outreach On A Liberal Arts College Campus, Janelle L. Wertzberger Dec 2014

Small School, Big Reach: Open Access Outreach On A Liberal Arts College Campus, Janelle L. Wertzberger

All Musselman Library Staff Works

The liberal arts college environment provides opportunities for campus-wide engagement of open access issues that may differ from those at larger institutions. Because we support fewer campus authors, we are able to provide a high level of service. Librarians’ close connections with faculty and students allow us to move beyond articles and theses and solicit a wide range of scholarly and creative works to share in our repository. In addition, we’ve fostered conversations about open access, open textbooks, altmetrics, and copyright among faculty, staff, and students. This poster will present a snapshot of a variety of outreach and education strategies …


Learning To Give A Hoot: Open Access Workflows For Academic Librarians (Oawal), Jill Emery Dec 2014

Learning To Give A Hoot: Open Access Workflows For Academic Librarians (Oawal), Jill Emery

Library Faculty and Staff Publications and Presentations

Graham Stone and Jill Emery have been working to try to develop an outline of some of the best practices for managing open access workflow management in academic libraries. In March 2014, we went live with OAWAL (pronounced owl): a crowdsourced blog/wiki to develop some of these practices and learn what innovators and experts in the field of scholarly communications and open access management have been doing. Our project is international in scope and relies heavily on countries such as the UK where country mandates are driving the development of workflows and management tools. This presentation will focus on recent …


Scholarworks Usage Report, 11-2014, Scholarworks Dec 2014

Scholarworks Usage Report, 11-2014, Scholarworks

ScholarWorks Reports

This report contains download and page view statistics for ScholarWorks, November 2014.


Instantiation: Academia's Pop-Up Museum, Corina M. Iannaggi, Kiersten F. Latham Dec 2014

Instantiation: Academia's Pop-Up Museum, Corina M. Iannaggi, Kiersten F. Latham

Proceedings from the Document Academy

This article provides an overview of the creation and installation of the Document Academy (DOCAM) 2014 Instantiation, an experimental exhibition intended to develop a three dimensional representation of the DOCAM 2014 participants’ spoken presentations. During the installation process, it was evident that the Instantiation resembled a current trend in the museum profession known as “The Pop-Up Museum.” An evaluation of the Instantiation in the context of the Pop-Up Museum uncovered a similar core objective, the ability to create meaningful conversations centered around the participants’ documents on display. This objective was supported by participants’ responses to follow-up questions about their …


An (Un)Session: A Copy Of A Fake Of The Identical Facsimile Reproduced From The Real Original, Kiersten F. Latham, Corina M. Iannaggi Dec 2014

An (Un)Session: A Copy Of A Fake Of The Identical Facsimile Reproduced From The Real Original, Kiersten F. Latham, Corina M. Iannaggi

Proceedings from the Document Academy

This paper describes one session from the 2014 Document Academy that used an atypical presentation style inspired by the unconference trend. The session explored the meaning and language used to describe and discuss representations of documents and was purposefully open-ended by design. By incorporating the Document Academy participants as active members of the presentation, we were able to create a space that encouraged the sharing of thoughts and expertise leading to rich discussion of the proposed topic. Here we provide an overview of the process which led to a session centered around collaboration and interaction with the audience and provide …


Scholarworks Usage Report, 12-2014, Scholarworks Dec 2014

Scholarworks Usage Report, 12-2014, Scholarworks

ScholarWorks Reports

This report contains download and page view statistics for ScholarWorks, December 2014.


Listening To Shells And Discovering A Lost World; Epiphanic Experiences At The Museum, Catherine M.C. Closet-Crane Dec 2014

Listening To Shells And Discovering A Lost World; Epiphanic Experiences At The Museum, Catherine M.C. Closet-Crane

Proceedings from the Document Academy

This paper aims to entertain the possibilities for analysis, interpretation, and learning offered by evocative autoethnographic texts for LAM and LIS user studies. The focus in this paper is on storytelling as autoethnographic writing. To illustrate facets of a particular cultural experience and start a conversation about the transformative power of museum objects as documents, the story told in this paper recounts a series of events and experiences from the life of two visitors after their museum encounter with an engraved shell artifact from the archeological site of Spiro Mounds in Oklahoma.


Library Publishing Is Special: Selection And Eligibility In Library Publishing, Paul Royster Dec 2014

Library Publishing Is Special: Selection And Eligibility In Library Publishing, Paul Royster

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Faculty Publications

Traditional publishing is based on ownership, commerce, paid exchanges, and scholarship as a commodity, while library activities are based on a service model of sharing resources and free exchange. I believe library publishing should be based on those values and should not duplicate or emulate traditional publishing. University presses have mixed views of library publishing, and libraries should not adopt those attitudes. Library publishers are not gatekeepers; their mission is dissemination. Libraries need to publish because traditional publishing suffers from high rejection rates, required surrender of intellectual property, long production schedules, high cost of products, and limited dissemination. Nebraska’s Zea …


Docam 2014 Founders Lecture: Photocutionary Acts, Selfies And Public Knowledge, Brian C. O'Connor Dec 2014

Docam 2014 Founders Lecture: Photocutionary Acts, Selfies And Public Knowledge, Brian C. O'Connor

Proceedings from the Document Academy

This paper is drawn from the DOCAM 2014 Founders Lecture Selfies and Public Knowledge: DOCAM 2014 Founders Lecture, "Selfies and Public Knowledge: Technology & Situational Documents"


Information Outlook, November/December 2014, Special Libraries Association Dec 2014

Information Outlook, November/December 2014, Special Libraries Association

Information Outlook, 2014

Volume 18, Issue 6


Focusing On Student Research In The Institutional Repository, Danielle M. Barandiaran, Betty Rozum, Becky Thoms Dec 2014

Focusing On Student Research In The Institutional Repository, Danielle M. Barandiaran, Betty Rozum, Becky Thoms

Library Faculty & Staff Publications

Student research is a significant and rapidly growing component of the institutional repository (IR) at Utah State University (USU). A briefing paper prepared for Open Access Scholarly Information Sourcebook (OASIS) points to student works as one of nine purposes for an IR.1 It is not uncommon to find undergraduate and graduate theses and dissertations in IRs. In 2013, an analysis of 283 U.S. repositories using the bepress or DSpsace platforms indicated 71% include this type of student research. However, other student research such as posters, presentations, or papers were only found in 38% of these repositories. Utah State University’s …


Data Documentation & Metadata, Sai Deng Nov 2014

Data Documentation & Metadata, Sai Deng

Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

No abstract provided.


Where Is The Evidence? Realising The Value Of Grey Literature For Public Policy & Practice, A Discussion Paper, Amanda Lawrence, John Houghton, Julian Thomas, Paul Weldon Nov 2014

Where Is The Evidence? Realising The Value Of Grey Literature For Public Policy & Practice, A Discussion Paper, Amanda Lawrence, John Houghton, Julian Thomas, Paul Weldon

Copyright, Fair Use, Scholarly Communication, etc.

The internet has profoundly changed how we produce, use and collect research and information for public policy and practice, with grey literature playing an increasingly important role. The authors argue that grey literature (i.e. material produced and published by organisations without recourse to the commercial or scholarly publishing industry) is a key part of the evidence produced and used for public policy and practice. Through surveys of users, producing organisations and collecting services a detailed picture is provided of the importance and economic value of grey literature. However, finding and accessing policy information is a time-consuming task made harder by …


Library Olympics: The Power Of Friendly Competition, Matthew Shreffler, Amanda Black Nov 2014

Library Olympics: The Power Of Friendly Competition, Matthew Shreffler, Amanda Black

Roesch Library Staff Presentations

Celebrate summer, sports and shelving! The annual library Olympics tests multiple skills while building some friendly competition among student workers. From call-number reading to the dumpster shoot-out, there is something for everyone in the race for the gold. Engage students and have fun! #LibraryOlympics


Leveraging Bibliographic Rdf Data For Keyword Prediction With Association Rule Mining (Arm), Nidhi Kushwaha, O P. Vyas Nov 2014

Leveraging Bibliographic Rdf Data For Keyword Prediction With Association Rule Mining (Arm), Nidhi Kushwaha, O P. Vyas

Copyright, Fair Use, Scholarly Communication, etc.

The Semantic Web ( Web 3.03.0) has been proposed as an efficient way to access the increasingly large amounts of data on the internet. The Linked Open Data Cloud project at present is the major effort to implement the concepts of the Seamtic Web, addressing the problems of in homogeneity and large data volumes. RKBExplorer is one of many repositories implementing Open Data and contains considerable bibliographic information. Th is paper discusses bibliographic data data, an important part of cloud data. Effective searching of bibliographic datasets can be a challenge as many of the papers residing in these databases do …


Using Online Resources To Flip Your Classroom, Jonathan Bull Nov 2014

Using Online Resources To Flip Your Classroom, Jonathan Bull

Library Faculty Presentations

No abstract provided.


Coming Together: Successful Press, Library, Vendor Content Collaboration: A Case Study, Mary Beth Thomson Nov 2014

Coming Together: Successful Press, Library, Vendor Content Collaboration: A Case Study, Mary Beth Thomson

Library Presentations

University presses (UP's) are essential to the advancement of our culture and the understanding of our world, and, are just as much at the forefront of publishing innovation as anyone. UP's publish and engage in some of the most essential research across the humanities, sciences and arts, and, also dive in to top-of-mind trending topics. Academic libraries are prized hubs of information, supporting a school's curriculum and the research of its university faculty and students - the foundation of content. In an effort to strengthen its relationship with its host institution library and help promote scholarship, the University Press of …


Scholarworks Usage Report, 10-2014, Scholarworks Nov 2014

Scholarworks Usage Report, 10-2014, Scholarworks

ScholarWorks Reports

This report contains download and page view statistics for ScholarWorks, October 2014.