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The Values Of Library Publishing And Open Infrastructure: Recapping #Lpforum21, Arthur J. Boston

Faculty & Staff Research and Creative Activity

Who leads, participates in, and is served by global knowledge infrastructure? Check out these takeaways from the recent Library Publishing Forum Conference from the perspective of a member of the planning committee.

Scholars' Mine Quick Facts May 2021, Nancy S. Krost

Scholars’ Mine Statistics

Scholars' Mine Quick Facts are monthly reports of downloads, page hits, and other information about works in the institutional repository of Missouri S&T. A map with downloads by region is also included.

Hang On To Your Rights (Author Rights!): A Survey Of Author Rights Services On Library Websites, Lauren Puzier, Emily Kilcer, Carol Anne Germain

University Libraries Faculty Scholarship

Author rights underpin many scholarly communication activities. For authors to openly distribute their work, and thereby enjoy great reach and impact, retaining the rights necessary to do so is essential. However, author rights may not be something familiar to authors. In cases where an author is working with a publisher who may not be supportive of these rights by default, they may not feel confident advocating on their own behalf. Libraries are well positioned to provide services that inform and support authors in efforts to retain their rights. In doing so, libraries can additionally nurture a more sustainable scholarly ecosystem. …

People-First Promotion: Rallying Library Workers During Covid-19 And Beyond, Katy Kelly, Christina A. Beis, Ann Zlotnik, Maureen E. Schlangen

Roesch Library Faculty Publications

COVID-19 forced workers around the world to face the realities of closed buildings, precarious employment situations, and challenges to their well-being. This article will showcase how library workers’ resilience during COVID-19 depended on people, not buildings, and a people-first public relations strategy was employed to reveal that distinction. The authors, a team of librarians and communicators, share three pandemic-era communication stories developed to put people at the forefront of initiatives and messaging: a revamped marketing strategy for a research appointment service puts faces to the work and student support; the cancellation announcement of a beloved annual event reveals how the …

Future Of Scholarly Communication: Forging An Inclusive And Innovative Research Infrastructure For Scholarly Communication In The Social Sciences And Humanities, Maciej Maryl, Marta Błaszczyńska, Operas

Copyright, Fair Use, Scholarly Communication, etc.

Authors: Karla Avanço • Ana Balula • Marta Błaszczyńska • Anna Buchner • Lorena Caliman • Claire Clivaz • Carlos Costa • Mateusz Franczak • Rupert Gatti • Elena Giglia • Arnaud Gingold • Susana Jarmelo • Maria João Padez • Delfim Leão • Maciej Maryl • Iva Melinščak Zlodi • Kajetan Mojsak • Agata Morka • Tom Mosterd • Elisa Nury • Cornelia Plag • Valérie Schafer • Mickael Silva • Jadranka Stojanovski • Bartłomiej Szleszyński • Agnieszka Szulińska • Erzsébet Tóth-Czifra • Piotr Wciślik • Lars Wieneke

This report discusses the scholarly communication issues in Social Sciences and …

Scholarly Communications Report On Activities 2020-21, Janelle L. Wertzberger, Mary R. Elmquist

All Musselman Library Staff Works

2020-21 annual report for Scholarly Communications work at Musselman Library, including Gettysburg College's institutional repository, The Cupola: Scholarship at Gettysburg College. Covers June 2020 – May 2021.

Supplemental Slides For "Data Management Failures: Teaching The Importance Of Dmps Through Cautionary Examples” In The Acrl Data Literacy Cookbook, Richard M. Mikulski

Library Faculty and Staff Publications and Presentations

This supplemental presentation slide deck was created to accompany the chapter "Data Management Failures: Teaching the Importance of DMPs through Cautionary Examples" in the ACRL Data Literacy Cookbook (2022). Researchers frequently express frustration when confronted with Data Management Plan (DMP) requirements, particularly when drafting or completing a grant application. This sense of annoyance is further fueled by a too-common view that the DMP is “yet another hurdle” that researchers need to confront during the grant writing process. Once researchers and students understand the purpose and utility of DMPs, however, many of these reservations and frustrations subside. The purpose of this …

Inclusivity In Children’S Services Within The School And Public Library, Phoebe Levin

Student Theses

The children's library has the potential to not only aid in knowledge-seeking conquests but to help establish a relationship of acceptance between the differences spewing from the child's own self, and the diversity of their peers. The increasing rate of underrepresented peoples in America, and the growing number of representative titles, have contributed to the trend of diversity and inclusivity in the library.

The efforts to make the library diverse and representative have been an ongoing struggle, yet in recent times efforts have proved that the exposure of diversity and inclusivity is beneficial to children. While examining how diversity and …

A Comparison Of Scholarly Journal Evaluation Between Indonesia And South Korea, Ayu Shabrina, Hani Febri Mustika, Yaniasih Yaniasih, Ambar Yoganingrum, Jungyeoun Lee

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Indonesian government has succeeded in increasing the number of local scientific journals. However, in terms of quality, such as the number of citations and errors in bibliographic writing still requires to be improved. This paper aims to explore the problems in Indonesian scientific journals' evaluation system by comparing the system to South Korea. The country has local journals like Indonesia. This paper uses references desk for collecting the data. The paper is focused on discussing publishers and journal citation databases. The conclusions are drawn by making arguments and reasons based on critical thinking analyzes. At the end of the paper, …

Swissenveo: A Fair National Environmental Data Repository For Earth Observation Open Science, Gregory Giuliani, Hugues Cazeaux, Pierre-Yves Burgi, Charlotte Poussin, Jean-Philippe Richard, Bruno Chatenoux

Copyright, Fair Use, Scholarly Communication, etc.

Environmental scientific research is highly becoming data-driven and dependent on high performance computing infrastructures to process ever increasing large volume and diverse data sets. Consequently, there is a growing recognition of the need to share data, methods, algorithms, and infrastructure to make scientific research more effective, efficient, open, transparent, reproducible, accessible, and usable by different users.

However, Earth Observations (EO) Open Science is still undervalued, and different challenges remains to achieve the vision of transforming EO data into actionable knowledge by lowering the entry barrier to massive-use Big Earth Data analysis and derived information products. Currently, FAIR-compliant digital repositories cannot …

Awareness And Utilization Of Electronic Databases For Scholarly Research By Faculty Of Education Lecturers In Federal Universities In South East, Nigeria, Franklyn Chibuike Azubuike (Cln), Felix C. Ekere, Nkem Orsu

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This study was designed to investigate the awareness and utilization of electronic databases for scholarly research by faculty of education lecturers in federal universities in South East, Nigeria. Six (6) research questions were formulated to guide the study. In conducting this research, the researcher used descriptive survey design which was considered most appropriate for this study. The study was conducted in the South East zone with a population of five hundred and ninety-one (591) lecturers in faculties of education from three selected federal universities. The instruments used for data collection was the questionnaire and interview schedule. The validity of the …

User Experience Desires Personalization From Academic Library Websites, Sarah Wilson

School of Information Student Research Journal

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Foundations Of Information Ethics Book Review, Jessie Stoner

School of Information Student Research Journal

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Student Research Journal: A Decade Of Building A Global Community Of Scholars, Ruth Huard

School of Information Student Research Journal

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10 Years Of Excellence: Celebrating The Journal, Authors, Editors, And Readers, Catherine Liebau-Nelsen

School of Information Student Research Journal

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Digital Commons @ Andrews University Annual Report 2020-2021, Terry Dwain Robertson

Library Administration and Marketing

Description

Report covers May 2020-April 2021

Table of Contents

• About the Digital Commons @ Andrews University
• Third Millionth Download
• Global Impact
• Serving the SDA World Church
• “Letting Your Light Shine”: Faculty Scholarship in SelectedWorks
• Over 1000 Faculty Publications Added

Investing In The Open Access Book Infrastructure: A Call For Action, Pierre Mounier, Jeroen Sondervan, Graham Stone

Copyright, Fair Use, Scholarly Communication, etc.

Books play an essential role in scholarly communication, notably but not only within the Social Sciences and Humanities. Open science benefits the quality and value of research and scholarship. If open access is to benefit society as widely as possible, it is logical to include academic books. In a 2019 briefing paper, Science Europe reported that: “Open access to academic books must be considered in the wider open access policies developed by research institutions, funders, and governments.”

In recent years, Knowledge Exchange, a joint network of six key national organisations in Europe, has been working on gaining a better understanding …

Article-Level Classification Of Scientific Publications: A Comparison Of Deep Learning, Direct Citation And Bibliographic Coupling, Maxime Rivest Phd, Etienne Vignola-Gagné Phd, Éric Archambault Dphil

Peer Reviewed Papers

Classification schemes for scientific activity and publications underpin a large swath of research evaluation practices at the organizational, governmental, and national levels. Several research classifications are currently in use, and they require continuous work as new classification techniques becomes available and as new research topics emerge. Convolutional neural networks, a subset of “deep learning” approaches, have recently offered novel and highly performant methods for classifying voluminous corpora of text. This article benchmarks a deep learning classification technique on more than 40 million scientific articles and on tens of thousands of scholarly journals. The comparison is performed against bibliographic coupling-, direct …

Scholarly Communication Priorities Among M1 Institutions: A Mixed-Methods Study, Emily K. Chan, Suzanna Conrad, Daina Dickman, Nicole Lawson

Faculty Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activity

This program presents the result of an IMLS-funded, mixed-methods study that investigated the scholarly communication programming and staffing priorities among M1 (Master's Colleges and Universities – Larger programs) libraries. Using a complex research life cycle to frame discussion, twenty librarians from M1 institutions participated in focus groups and provided structured information on their libraries' scholarly communication program, development, and staffing. Scholarly communication service and support among M1 institutions continue to grow and develop within the context of limited budgets and staffing. Audience participants will become acquainted with the prevalence of diverse scholarly communication programming and services and their assessment among …

Scholars' Mine Quick Facts April 2021, Nancy S. Krost

Scholars’ Mine Statistics

Scholars' Mine Quick Facts are monthly reports of downloads, page hits, and other information about works in the institutional repository of Missouri S&T. A map with downloads by region is also included.

Building Synergy Between The Institutional Repository And Scholarly Communication, Emily Kilcer, Lauren Puzier, Carol Anne Germain

University Libraries Faculty Scholarship

Institutional repositories remain a crucial tool for promoting, displaying, and encouraging open access to scholarly research. Institutional repository webpages can help deliver pertinent information about scholarly communication to visitors and authors. Scholarly communication aims to promote a more open, equitable, and sustainable scholarly ecosystem. Building a coherent synergy between scholarly communication services and open distribution through an institution’s repository benefits the user community by facilitating an efficient and effective portal. Designing the institutional repository’s homepage with a clear connection to the scholarly communication presence offers a deeper investment in scholarly communication for its visitors. This study investigates the number of …

Supporting Open Educational Resources In Digital Commons, Ashley Sergiadis

ETSU Faculty Works

At East Tennessee State University, an awards program incentivizes instructors to adapt or create Open Educational Resources (OERs) and publish them in Digital Commons@ETSU. Come to this presentation to hear lessons learned from the Digital Scholarship Librarian who supported the instructors during the creation and publication process. The presentation will cover the following topics: copyright, accessibility, promotion, timelines, and assessments.

Scholarly Communications Newsletter, Georgia Southern University

Library Publications (1999-2023)

• Promote Yourself This Summer
• Digital Commons Redesign
• Need a Home for Your Research Data?
• New Video Tutorials
• Scholarly Communications News

Scholarsarchive Urc Presentation May 2021, Ellen Amatangelo

Faculty Publications

Managed by the Harold B. Lee Library, ScholarsArchive is Brigham Young University’s open access institutional repository for scholarly and creative content produced by BYU faculty, staff, and students. The repository is intended to make material such as research, publications, data, and historical documents openly available to a global audience.

Rise Up: The Student Research Symposium Goes Online, Anne Shelley

Faculty and Staff Publications – Milner Library

In Spring 2020, higher education institutions began implementing COVID-related precautions. While course delivery was most influenced by a variety of urgent decisions, also affected were events that were originally (and traditionally) scheduled to take place in-person that semester. While many events were cancelled outright, some were rescheduled or shifted online. At my institution, stakeholders decided to transition the popular annual student research symposium to an online event hosted by the institutional repository. This presentation will provide details of a successful collaboration between the library's institutional repository manager and symposium coordinators in the Graduate School. The presentation will cover workflows, team …

Closing Keynote: Academy-Owned Non-Profit Open Access Publishing: An Approach To Achieve Participatory And Sustainable Scholarly Communications, Arianna Becerril García

Digital Initiatives Symposium

The prevailing science communication system has showed little success in making science a global, participatory and equitable conversation. At the same time, a very robust ecosystem of science communication has been built in the Latin-American region, one that is intrinsically open, non-commercial and academy-owned. However, this “regional” approach has remained outside the legitimated channels of scholarly communication.

AmeliCA’s and Redalyc’s approach is based on the fact that scholarly communication in control of the academy is a strategy much healthier and sustainable for the development of science and society. Why is it that commercial publishers are a pivotal actor in science …

Where Is The Social Democracy In Subscription Paywalls? Effects And Impact Of Transitioning Journals From Subscriptions To Open Access On Researchers In Developing And Transition Economies, Colleen Campbell, Rick Burke

Digital Initiatives Symposium

Nearly 20 years after the Budapest, Berlin and Bethesda Declarations on open access, the global academic community continues to struggle toward realizing its objective of an open information environment in which the world’s scholarly and scientific literature is freely available and at the service of society to accelerate research, enrich education and lay the foundation for a common, global intellectual exchange. Championing the cause, stakeholders in some geographic contexts have succeeded in delivering open access publishing options for their research outputs by fostering highly-regarded, locally-developed journals, platforms and repositories, yet a an enormous portion of the world’s scholarly literature continues …

Maintaining Your Identity: Supporting Our Own Faculty's Publishing While Participating In A Funded Consortia Publishing Program, Jennifer Coronado

Digital Initiatives Symposium

In May 2019, the Private Academic Library Network of Indiana was awarded a $525,000 grant from Lilly Endowment to improve student success and retention by supporting the use of open course materials across the 24 private institutional members. Since then, the PALSave administration team has reached over 100 faculty members across Indiana, created an adoption pilot program, and received over 40 faculty reviews for the Open Textbook Library. Now, PALSave is developing a publishing program, with full funding for five textbook creations over five years. The Butler University Libraries’ Scholarly Communication Team conducted a Digital Needs Assessment Survey and found …

Student Success: Open Access Repository Work Impacts University Libraries' Student Employees, Kelly Visnak Dr., Yumi Ohira

Digital Initiatives Symposium

This presentation will identify new methods for in the libraries student employment program related to Open Access repository work. The hands on learning opportunities are focused on publishing production workflows, including: CV checking; author rights and permissions for depositing faculty papers in the UTA’s institutional repository; and creating a research metrics report to provide alternative impact measurements of the faculty’s publications in support of tenure and promotion packet of materials. Additional production processes include learning layout design and project management in publishing monographs and journals through a variety of publishing tools, such as: Open Journal Systems (OJS), Pressbooks, and InDesign. …

Mapping Renewal: How An Unexpected Interdisciplinary Collaboration Transformed A Digital Humanities Project, Elise Tanner, Geoffrey Joseph

Digital Initiatives Symposium

Funded by a National Endowment for Humanities (NEH) Humanities Collections and Reference Resources Foundations Grant, the UA Little Rock Center for Arkansas History and Culture’s “Mapping Renewal” pilot project focused on creating access to and providing spatial context to archival materials related to racial segregation and urban renewal in the city of Little Rock, Arkansas, from 1954-1989. An unplanned interdisciplinary collaboration with the UA Little Rock Arkansas Economic Development Institute (AEDI) has proven to be an invaluable partnership. One team member from each department will demonstrate the Mapping Renewal website and discuss how the collaborative process has changed and shaped …