Scholarly Communication Commons^™

Collaborating Across Units To Support Digital Scholarship, Alicia Peaker, Ryan Clement, Patrick Wallace

Oberlin Digital Scholarship Conference

In this session, participants shared strategies and best practices for collaborating across units to support digital scholarship. The leaders briefly described two recent examples of successful collaborations at Middlebury College, instituting Omeka support & running a Liberal Arts Data Bootcamp, before opening up for broader discussions and brainstorming.

Open Cuny: 24 Colleges, 5 Boroughs, 1 Repository, Megan Wacha

Publications and Research

In March 2015, CUNY Libraries launched an open access institutional repository, CUNY Academic Works, to collect and provide public access to the intellectual output of the students, faculty, and staff at the City University of New York. This presentation details a collaborative model in which the Office of Library Services at the Central Office partners with libraries at each of CUNY’s campuses to adopt more open practices.

Using Sherpa/Romeo: Finding Policies For Self-Archiving Articles, Lily Flick, Sarah A. Norris

Scholarly Communication Brown Bag Series

No abstract provided.

Intellectual Property, Paul Royster

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Presentations

Copyrights, trademarks, & patents

Registration of copyright

What copyright gives you

Requirements for copyright

What you can and cannot copyright

Transfer of copyright

Exceptions to copyright exclusives

Fair use

Instructional exemption

Open access licenses

Ownership by UNL

Getting To Know Altmetrics, Julie Carmen

Symposium Of University Research and Creative Expression (SOURCE)

Question: How will citation metrics help advance your career and understand the scholars in your field?

Rationale: In this presentation, learn about the statistics that are tracked electronically, which scholarship resources are included, and who is doing the tracking; how citation statistics can help you land your dream job or assist in helping you land your dream employee. The numbers are in, and you'll be surprised how your research publications are being measured. Find out how your scholarship can affect your lifetime career.

In the past, the evaluation of academic publications by librarians and information professionals used re-shelving statistics in …

Applications Of Bepress Digital Commons In Special Collections: Initial Experiences At Abilene Christian University, Mcgarvey Ice

Library Research and Publications

No abstract provided.

Information Outlook, May/June 2016, Special Libraries Association

Information Outlook, 2016

Volume 20, Issue 3

Our Digital Showcase Scholars' Mine, James Roger Weaver

Scholarly Communications - Educational and Promotional Materials

Scholars’ Mine is the institutional repository for the Missouri University of Science and Technology. Scholars' Mine provides access to the digital scholarly and cultural resources created by the university community. This includes faculty papers, departmental publications, conference proceedings, graduate student works, and other scholarly material, as well as campus cultural and historical works.

This promotional material consist of a bi-fold brochure describing Scholars' Mine general services for:

• Published Research,
• Customizable Faculty Profiles,
• Research Data,
• Scholarly Journals, Books and Conference Proceedings,
• Student Research and Creative Works, and
• Teaching and Learning Resources.

Additional flyers serve to provide more details for each service …

What Is The University Of The Pacific Scholarly Commons And How Can It Benefit The Dental School?, Mary M. Somerville, James Wirrell, Mickel Paris

University Libraries Librarian and Staff Presentations

Digital repositories, also known as institutional repositories or digital commons, are rapidly becoming adopted by many universities and colleges to easily store, retrieve and disseminate scholarly objects created by faculty and students during research activities. At the McGeorge School of Law, a digital repository provides evidence of success in sharing research worldwide through open access of academic law papers. In this presentation, join the University Librarian Mary Somerville, McGeorge Assistant Dean for Library Services James Wirrell, and Pacific Health Sciences Librarian Mickel Paris as they discuss the potential of a 3 campus Pacific repository, and show how the Arthur A. …

Scholars' Mine Quick Facts June 2016, James Roger Weaver

Scholars’ Mine Statistics

Scholars' Mine statistical quick facts for June 2016.

Report From The Participation In The Current System Workgroup, Nancy Davenport, Barbara Defelice, Gary Evoniuk, Pollyanne Frantz, Julie Hannaford,, Jeff Mackie-Mason, Jane Mcauliffe, Jennifer Pesanelli, Paul Royster, Crispin Taylor, Michael Wolfe

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Faculty Publications

OSI2016 Workgroup Question: Do researchers and scientists participate in the current system of scholarly publishing because they like it, they need it, they don’t have a choice in the matter, or they don’t really care one way or another? What perceptions, considerations and incentives do academicians have for staying the course (like impact factors and tenure points), and what are their pressures and incentives for changing direction (like lowering publishing charges)?

The authors of scholarly works play a critical role in the scholarly communications system: authors are the original content creators, and in many or most cases are the original …

Digitalcommons Report: 2016, Jean Bigger

DigitalCommons Documents

DigitalCommons has been fully operational for four and a half years:

• FY14: 464 works to date | 43,278 full-text downloads to date | 27,613 downloads in the past year
• FY15: 762 works to date | 88,466 full-text downloads to date | 44,033 downloads in the past year
• FY16: 1,492 works to date | 144,574 full-text downloads to date | 58,250 downloads in the past year

Scholarly Communications Report On Activities 2015-16, Janelle L. Wertzberger

All Musselman Library Staff Works

2015-16 annual report for Scholarly Communications work at Musselman Library, including Gettysburg College's institutional repository, The Cupola: Scholarship at Gettysburg College. Covers June 2015-May 2016.

Collection Development Policy, Digital Commons Institutional Repository, University Of Nebraska–Lincoln Libraries, Sue Ann Gardner, Paul Royster, Linnea Fredrickson, Kathleen A. Johnson, Leslie M. Delserone, Erica Defrain

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Collection Development Policies

Purpose of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Digital Commons Institutional Repository Collection Development Policy

This collection development policy is intended to provide guidance for content selection that anticipates and meets the needs of the communities of the University of Nebraska–Lincoln (UNL). It directly relates to the library's vision statement and defines the scope and standards that guide the services that generate the collection.

Purpose of the UNL Digital Commons Institutional Repository

The UNL institutional repository (IR) comprises services that result in the stewardship and global online dissemination of content created and selected by UNL authors and affiliates. With the aim of …

Communicating With Library Donors, Marilyn K. Moody

Library Faculty and Staff Publications and Presentations

How do you communicate effectively with donors and potential donors? What does that communication look like? Libraries often envision donor communications as including only direct fundraising requests. Communications with donors, however, encompass a wide range of activities, is ongoing, and may even span decades with an individual donor. Library staff not directly involved with fundraising may not even think about donors as part of their user audience, but almost everyone who works in a library has a potential role in communicating with donors.

Strategic Thinking And Design Initiative: Extended And Updated Report, Association Of Research Libraries

Copyright, Fair Use, Scholarly Communication, etc.

Introduction 11 This report1 documents the Strategic Thinking and Design work that the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) engaged in from the fall of 2013 through the end of 2015. Fueled by the deep desire of the ARL membership to rise to the challenges facing higher education in the 21st century, and with grants from the Institute of Museum and Library Services and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Association engaged in an unprecedented project to reimagine the future of the research library and then reshape ARL, its organization, to help bring that future into being.

This report is a …

Volume 21 Issue 4 Introduction (Library Marketing And Communications), Joan Petit

Library Faculty and Staff Publications and Presentations

Oregon libraries provide an incredible array of resources and services, but sometimes we struggle to educate our users and each other about all that is available. Over the past several years, many libraries have become more intentional in our efforts to market and promote our offerings, through traditional PR and advertisements as well as newer approaches like social media. However, we may lack the formal training and expertise to do this well—marketing is not a class offered in all library school programs—and, even with appropriate training, we may lack the budget and staff to implement a large-scale marketing program.

This …

Pathways To Open Access : The Story Of An Institutional Repository And How We Built It., Dwayne Buttler, Rachel Howard, Sarah Frankel

Faculty and Staff Scholarship

The central purpose of an institutional repository (IR) is providing open access to scholarship. That scholarship originates primarily through the work of faculty and students at research institutions, leading research libraries to embrace IRs and the scholarly communication movement. IRs typically include student theses and dissertations and faculty publications but sometimes extend far beyond to institutional records and documents. Launching an IR requires significant collaborative work across disparate specialties and institutional structures to establish policies, workflows, configure metadata and technology for retrieval, and fashion outreach and ongoing support to the administrators and ultimately provide mediated support to the scholars who …

Open Everything: How To Find Free, Reusable Content Online, Andrée Rathemacher, Julia Lovett, Angel Ferria

Technical Services Faculty Presentations

Slides and handout from a session, "Open Everything: How to Find Free, Reusable Content Online," given at the Rhode Island Library Association Annual Conference, Color Outside the Lines, on May 25, 2016 in Warwick, Rhode Island.

"How can you help your patrons locate open materials to support their school work, personal development, and creative activities? What is the difference between content that is free to access versus free to reuse? What does it mean when content has an open license like Creative Commons? Where are the best places online to look for open e-books, learning materials, images, sound and …

First Steps To Promoting Open Access For Research Data And Publications On Campus., Anjum Najmi, R Philip Reynolds, Dillon Wackerman

Librarian and Staff Presentations

Open Access (OA) is “the free, immediate, online availability of research articles coupled with the right to use these articles fully in the digital environment.” (SPARC, 2014) While much of the conversation about OA centers on business models, economics, workflow processes, institutional policy, and the transformative influence on academic publishing, limited dialogue occurs about best practices to guide educational and research institutions when planning to develop a policy on Open Access.

In 2015, the Dean’s Council at Stephen F Austin State University (SFASU) agreed to support Open Access on campus for research data and publications. The SFA Scholar Works, the …

Helping Fledgling Journals Leave The Nest, R Philip Reynolds

Librarian and Staff Presentations

No abstract provided.

Scholar Works: Demystifying The Research And Scholarly Communication Process, Sean Lind, Elizabeth Brown

Symposium Of University Research and Creative Expression (SOURCE)

This presentation provides an overview of the scholarly communication process for beginning researchers.

Publishing Undergraduate Research: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?, Allegra Swift

Library Staff Publications and Research

Scholarly communications are evolving rapidly; there are shifts in how research is communicated, what counts for scholarship, and who is doing the communicating. Undergraduates are contributing to the scholarly conversation but with little education in what it means to participate online as a scholar, much less as a global digital citizen. Many faculty members engage in scholarly communication as they always have and are often unaware of the rapid developments in publishing and sharing research. Librarians with responsibilities in publishing, scholarly communication, and instruction are especially challenged to meet these gaps in digital literacy. Publishing undergraduate scholarship can be perceived …

Publishing On A Dime: Opportunities And Challenges In Creating An Oer Publishing Program, Karen Bjork, Marilyn Billings

Library Faculty and Staff Publications and Presentations

As the rising cost of textbooks continues to burden students, many libraries have begun to facilitate the creation and publishing of Open Educational Resources (OER). The presentation will focus on the opportunities and challenges of creating a library publishing program with limited funding. Lessons learned from open education publishing initiatives will be shared. At Portland State University (PSU), Karen Bjork has worked with faculty on campus to publish eight open access textbooks that have benefited students on an economic and educational level. She will discuss the implementation of the open textbook publishing initiative and share how the library combined the …

Pilot Data Information Literacy Competencies Matrix Scaffolded Across Undergraduate, Graduate And Data Steward Levels, Megan R. Sapp Nelson

Libraries Faculty and Staff Scholarship and Research

Initial work in identifying data management or data information literacy skills went as far as identifying a list of proposed competencies without further differentiation between those competencies, whether by discipline, complexity, or use case. This article describes a significant innovation upon existing competencies by identifying a scaffolding (built upon existing competencies) that moves students progressively from undergraduate training through post graduate coursework and research to post-doctoral work and into the early years of data stewardship. The scaffolding ties together existing research that has been completed in research data management skills and data information literacy with research into the outcomes that …

The Research Commons: Connect, Collaborate, Contribute, Emily Sferra

Ohio IR Day

Overview of The Ohio State University Libraries' Research Commons. The mission of the Research Commons is to leverage campus partnerships to provide support services at each stage of the research lifecycle. It enhances the Libraries’ mission by providing a hub for collaborative, interdisciplinary research that is both expertise and technology enabled.

Scholars' Mine Quick Facts May 2016, James Roger Weaver

Scholars’ Mine Statistics

Scholars' Mine statistical quick facts for May 2016.

Gender And Scholarly Publishing: What Students Need To Know, Lucretia Mcculley

University Libraries Faculty and Staff Publications

As women and gender studies students emerge as citizens of the world, how can we educate them on scholarly communication issues? What role, if any, does gender play in successful scholarly publishing? How is open access publishing affecting global access to scholarship on gender? How do students’ lives on the Web influence their understanding of copyright?

Women and gender studies students need to understand the economics and legal aspects of scholarship, both as consumers and content creators. They need to be able to thoughtfully discuss who owns information, who controls it and who has access to it. Students also need …

Die Hard: The Impossible, Absolutely Essential Task Of Saving The Web For Scholars, Robin Camille Davis

Publications and Research

The web is fragile and littered with broken links. This poses a problem for the scholarly record and one’s own academic history. In this presentation given at the Association of College & Research Libraries – Eastern New York chapter conference, I review the stats on link rot and reference rot, and I give a brief overview of web archiving and its challenges. I review some web archiving tools: the Internet Archive, Perma.cc, WebRecorder, and GitHub. I advise creators of web projects to design their websites to be accessible and archivable, and to think about preservation (afterlife) of their projects from …

Helping Fledgling Journals Leave The Nest: Library As Publisher Support For Launching New Journals, R Philip Reynolds

Librarian and Staff Presentations

No abstract provided.