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Institutional Archives At Urban North American Universities: An Assessment Of Current Practices, J.B. Hill, Wanda V. Dole

Faculty Scholarship

This paper reports a study of institutional archives at urban and metropolitan universities that are members of the Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan Universities (CUMU). Founded in 1990, the CUMU is an organization of North American institutions of higher education committed to the shared mission to use the power of their campuses in education, research and service to enhance the communities in which they are located. Currently approximately 90 institutions are members of the CUMU. This paper reports the results of a survey to identify collections, staffing, reporting structures and institutional records management programs. It examines the challenges of collecting …

Fair Use Fundamentals, Association Of Research Libraries, Yippa

Copyright, Fair Use, Scholarly Communication, etc.

Copyright law is a carefully balanced system meant to encourage creativity as well as cultural and scientific progress. The law encourages authors by giving them limited control over certain uses of their works, and it encourages everyone (including authors) to use existing cultural and scientific material without permission, under certain circumstances, to engage in a wide variety of vital activities. Many parts of the law favor the freedom to use culture, but by far and away the most flexible, powerful, and universal user’s right is fair use. As you’ll see below: fair use is a right, fair use is vitally …

From Social To Scholarly And Back Again, Jill Emery, Charlie Rapple

Library Faculty and Staff Publications and Presentations

Researchers are increasingly connecting and working together across institutional and global boundaries, thanks to networks like Academia.edu and ResearchGate, and networked tools like Mendeley. As research itself (not just the resulting publications) begins to break free of traditional containers, what kinds of support can information professionals provide? How can we extend actions we are already taking in virtual reference and virtual help, and expand them into these venues? What challenges are we likely to encounter? What existing services might we be able to draw on to help researchers maximize the reach and impact of their work, wherever it takes place? …

Rli 285: Research Library Issues: A Report From Arl, Cni, And Sparc 2015 -- Special Issue On Copyright, Prudence Adler, Brandon Butler, Jonathan Band, Krista Cox

Copyright, Fair Use, Scholarly Communication, etc.

In “Fair Use Rising: Full-Text Access and Repurposing in Recent Case Law,” Brandon Butler, practitioner-in-residence at the American University Washington College of Law, reviews six recent fair use decisions that cut across many socially important and beneficial purposes. He highlights the trend of courts finding in favor of allowing “the broad redistribution of unaltered, full-text documents for new purposes.” Butler explains how this trend presents new opportunities for research libraries to use and re-purpose the full text of copyrighted works in their collections.

Exploring the implications of one critically important case for research libraries, Jonathan Band, legal counsel to the …

Scholarworks Usage Report, 01-2015, Scholarworks

ScholarWorks Reports

This report contains download and page view statistics for ScholarWorks, January 2015.

Research Lifecycle, Scholarly Communication

Libraries' Documents

No abstract provided.

2015 State Of The Library, Jennifer Nutefall, Elizabeth Mckeigue, Rice Majors

State of the Library

Agenda

Jennifer Nutefall, University Librarian

• Strategic Plan
• Budget
• First Floor Renovation

Elizabeth McKeigue, Associate University Librarian for Learning and Engagement

• New and Improved Services
• Teaching, Learning, and Assessment
• Faculty Collaboration

Rice Majors, Associate University Librarian for Collections and Scholarly Communication

• Library Collections
• Collections & Access Budget
• Initiatives in Collection Development

Schedule, Dinand Library

Open Access Week at Holy Cross

Poster used to promote events sponsored by Library Services during Open Access Week 2013.

Adr Presentation: Open Access, Joanne Paterson

Western Libraries Presentations

Publishing in an open access repository gives your research global reach. Wide dissemination of your work can mean more citations and more impact. Getting your scholarly work published is as easy as uploading a paper to a website. Find out how Scholarship@Western can benefit you and how it can help you meet the requirements of funding agencies for open access.

Fundraising For Affordability: Well, Somebody's Got To Pay For It. Panel Presentation With Lauren Fancher, Jeff Galant, Gerry Hanley, And Marilyn Moody, Marilyn K. Moody

Library Faculty and Staff Publications and Presentations

This individual panel presentation by Marilyn Moody describes the work being undertaken by Portland State University to reduce student costs for textbooks and course materials. It describes the major stakeholders and their impact. It also includes Portland State strategies being used to build support and funding for textbook affordability initiatives.

Full panel conference abstract: These three entities have successfully fundraised in order to address the cost of course materials on campuses. Lauren Fancher and Jeff Gallant of ALG will discuss state government funds for the University of Georgia Regents, Gerry Hanley will present his efforts working with private foundations with …

Collection Revitalization At The University Of New Mexico Libraries, Samuel E. Sisneros

University Libraries & Learning Sciences Faculty and Staff Publications

This article discusses a project that took an early archival manuscript collection that was poorly described and catalogued, and underused and revitalized it (in a sense recovered a lost collection) by re-describing it and digitizing material from the collection for better (new) public access.

Information Outlook January/February 2015, Special Libraries Association

Information Outlook, 2015

Volume 19, Issue 1

United States National Oceanographic And Atmospheric Administration Plan For Increasing Public Access To Research Results: A Response To The White House Office Of Science And Technology Policy Memorandum 'Increasing Access To The Results Of Federal Funded Scientific Research,' Issued February 22, 2013

Copyright, Fair Use, Scholarly Communication, etc.

NOAA plan for increasing public access to research results : a response to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy memorandum 'Increasing access to the results of Federal funded scientific research' issued February 22, 2013

United States Department Of Defense (Dod) Response To The Office Of Science And Technology Policy Memo, 2013: Public Access Plan (February 2015)

Copyright, Fair Use, Scholarly Communication, etc.

DOD response to OSTP memo, 2013: Public Access Plan (February 2015)

Scholarship@Western & Open Access: What's In It For Me?, Joanne Paterson

Western Libraries Presentations

Publishing in an open access repository gives your research global reach. Wide dissemination of your work can mean more citations and more impact. Getting your scholarly work published is as easy as uploading a paper to a website. Find out how Scholarship@Western can benefit you and how it can help you meet the requirements of funding agencies for open access.

Promoting Yourself, Promoting Your Research, Becka Rich, Michele Gibney

Library Academic Fest for Faculty

NSU librarians are offering this workshop for you to learn the ins and outs of promoting yourself and your research on SSRN, NSUWorks, SelectedWorks, and social networks like ResearchGate.

The Open Access Advantage In Legal Education’S Age Of Assessment, Elizabeth G. Adelman

Book Reviews

Reviewing James M. Donovan, Carol A. Watson & Caroline Osborne, The Open Access Advantage for American Law Reviews.

New Services To Enhance A Health Care Network's Reputation: Digital Commons At Lvhn, A Health Network Experience, Kristine A. Petre Mls, Cm, Ahip

Department of Education

Live for a little over two years, Lehigh Valley Health Network’s repository, LVHN Scholarly Works, has enhanced the Network’s reputation and research credibility by increasing the visibility of its scholarship. In addition to enhancing the Network’s reputation, LVHN Scholarly Works has been instrumental in saving time and easing workflows for several of its residency programs as well as for ACGME accreditation, and has even contributed to filling in missing pieces of institutional history. As the initiative moves forward, the library continues to look for ways to further increase the visibility of LVHN’s scholarship and help to solve other challenges.

Over …

Access To Scientific Data In The 21st Century: Rationale And Illustrative Usage Rights Review, James Campbell

Copyright, Fair Use, Scholarly Communication, etc.

Making scientific data openly accessible and available for re-use is desirable to encourage validation of research results and/or economic development. Understanding what users may, or may not, do with data in online data repositories is key to maximizing the benefits of scientific data re-use. Many online repositories that allow access to scientific data indicate that data is “open,” yet specific usage conditions reviewed on 40 “open” sites suggest that there is no agreed upon understanding of what “open” means with respect to data. This inconsistency can be an impediment to data re-use by researchers and the public.

Journal Impact Factor - The Worst Metric In Science, Ian Mccullough

Research, Publications, and Presentations

Presentation on the origins and proper use of the journal impact factor, followed by a critical look at the deficiencies and misuses of the metric - specifically the use for evaluating individual research output.

Open Access Through Institutional Repositories: The A3ir Con Experience, Brittany Blanchard

Aviation / Aeronautics / Aerospace International Research Conference

Institutional Repositories (IRs) are intertwined with the Open Access (OA) movement and are becoming a standard feature for research libraries. Utilizing the open web and indexing for search engines IRs increase visibility and access to scholarly works.

Since it’s creation in September of 2013 the Scholarly Commons currently holds over 4,000 works, that have been downloaded 136,548 times.

The Commons hosted the 2014 A3ircon Proceedings and will be the site hosting 2015’s proceedings. This poster shows how the proceedings were accessed as well as challenges for future conferences.

Pdxscholar Annual Report 2014, Karen Bjork, Sherry Buchanan, David Coate, Bertrand Robinson, Stacey Schlatter

Library Faculty and Staff Publications and Presentations

This report details the fourth year of operation for PDXScholar, Portland State University's institutional repository. The report covers the period between January 1, 2014 and December 31, 2014.

Repository Reboot, Ann Ellis, Ashley M. Thompson

Librarian and Staff Presentations

The presentation outlines the constraints on Stephen F. Austin State University Library's original repository and the work completed by staff members of the Center for Digital Scholarship to ensure the repository's future success for our campus.

Sci Pop Talks! Presenter Guidelines, Kiyomi D. Deards, Raychelle Burks

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Faculty Publications

Presenter guidelines for the nUniversity of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) Sci Pop! Talks series.

Know Your Copy Rights -- Copy Rights And Teaching, James Roger Weaver

Scholarly Communications - Educational and Promotional Materials

In your teaching, you confront questions about how to legally share articles, video, music, images, and other protected intellectual property with your students. This short handout discusses these issues and provides practical advise and suggestions.

Research Data And Linked Data: A New Future For Technical Services?, Sherry L. Vellucci

University Library Scholarship

This book chapter examines two futures for academic librarians working in access (technical) services: deeper collaboration on data management with faculty and student researchers and expanded access to library resources on the Semantic Web. Both are concerned with data organization, discovery, access, and support of shared data beyond the library. The chapter examines many aspects of research data from the perspectives of researchers and librarians. It briefly examines events prior to the library's greater involvement with research data, looks at how librarians gained fundamental knowledge and skills to assist with the tasks involved with research data curation, and discusses why …

Elements Of Successful Online Journal Publishing, Dillon Wackerman, R Philip Reynolds

Librarian and Staff Presentations

At the Center for Digital Scholarship (CDS) at Stephen F. Austin State University (SFASU), we have discovered that there are many complex details to launching a successful online journal-publishing program. In our lead role at SFASU, we have streamlined implementation to make this a relatively straightforward process for the journal managers and editors.

Most of the journal editors with whom we currently work are experienced authors and reviewers, but they rely upon us to assist them with the design, implementation and editorial processes. Following this, we have found it beneficial to provide comprehensive and personalized customer support and training. Some …

Using Scholarworks To Capture Forest Entomology And Forestry History, Dillon Wackerman

Librarian and Staff Presentations

The Center for Digital Scholarship at Stephen F. Austin State University has worked with the Arthur Temple College of Forestry and Agriculture, and in particular professor David Kulhavy, to digitize and publish online in SFA ScholarWorks the college's scholarly work and history. The latest development from this relationship can be seen in the creation of the East Texas Forest Entomology Seminar event page in SFA ScholarWorks, which documents the seminar's proceedings and history.

Ur Scholarship Repository: 2014-2015 Year In Review, Lucretia Mcculley

UR Scholarship Reports and Statistics

Annual Report for the University of Richmond's institutional repository, UR Scholarship.

Erau Scholarly Commons, July 1, 2014-June 30, 2015, Anne M. Casey, Chip Wolfe, Brittany Blanchard

Annual Reports

Scholarly Commons continued to grow in 2014-2015, not only in content added and downloads, but in maturity of the process. At the beginning of the second year, many of the early challenges resolved as teams that oversee the administration and new development began to understand the system and each other’s strengths.

Members of the university community also developed a better understanding of Scholarly Commons and its value to many aspects of the research and academic mission. In particular, various departments turned to Scholarly Commons to host conferences and events. Also, members of the Oversight Team met with representatives of Sponsored …