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Interactive Session: Equity, Diversity, And Inclusion In Open Education, Camille Thomas

Open Educational Resources Symposium

Participants in the Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Open Education session will gain strategies on how to integrate equitable values into their workflows. This session will cover best practices for centering diverse perspectives. It will also explore design principles which harness the flexibility of OER to include a variety teaching and learning styles.

Interactive Session: Open Pedagogy, Chad Flinn

Open Educational Resources Symposium

This workshop will unpack the concepts of Open Pedagogy and Open Educational Practices and share how Chad has used these strategies in his own teaching as a vocational instructor. Participants will have an opportunity to experiment with some of the tools and best practices that are being used in Open Pedagogy and have the opportunity to walk away with a new open educational practices toolkit.

Additional files for this session can be found in the morning session record.

Interactive Session: Authoring Oer, Karen Lauritsen

Open Educational Resources Symposium

While it may feel like you’re starting on page one, this workshop will focus on the resources, both human and technical, that are already in place to support your writing and publishing process. We’ll identify who can provide local expertise, how your open textbook will be different from others, as well as the publishing platforms available, with an emphasis on Pressbooks. By the end of the session, you will leave with a map for your path forward.

Additional files for this session can be found in the morning session record.

Interactive Session: Advocacy For Open And Affordable Materials, Mo Nyamweya

Open Educational Resources Symposium

This workshop’s goal is to prepare and/or better equip participants to be OER advocates on their campus. You’ll learn how to identify and recruit allies, communicate and collaborate with various stakeholders, and create long- and short-term goals for your campus. We will also tackle barriers to OER advocacy and map out solutions to your unique challenges.

Interactive Session: Open Pedagogy, Chad Flinn

Open Educational Resources Symposium

This workshop will unpack the concepts of Open Pedagogy and Open Educational Practices and share how Chad has used these strategies in his own teaching as a vocational instructor. Participants will have an opportunity to experiment with some of the tools and best practices that are being used in Open Pedagogy and have the opportunity to walk away with a new open educational practices toolkit.

Interactive Session: Advocacy For Open And Affordable Materials, Mo Nyamweya

Open Educational Resources Symposium

This workshop’s goal is to prepare and/or better equip participants to be OER advocates on their campus. You’ll learn how to identify and recruit allies, communicate and collaborate with various stakeholders, and create long- and short-term goals for your campus. We will also tackle barriers to OER advocacy and map out solutions to your unique challenges.

Interactive Session: Authoring Oer, Karen Lauritsen

Open Educational Resources Symposium

While it may feel like you’re starting on page one, this workshop will focus on the resources, both human and technical, that are already in place to support your writing and publishing process. We’ll identify who can provide local expertise, how your open textbook will be different from others, as well as the publishing platforms available, with an emphasis on Pressbooks. By the end of the session, you will leave with a map for your path forward.

The Research Data Management Interview, Sam Simas, Andrew Creamer, Hope Lappen

Library Staff Publications, Presentations & Journal Articles

This presentation was given as part of the RDAP Summit, 2019

Train-the-Trainer: Developing a Research Data Management
Workshop to Support Graduate Student NSF Doctoral
Dissertation Research Improvement Grant Proposals
Presenters: Andrew Creamer (Brown University),
Hope Lappen (New York University), Sam Simas (Bryant
University)

Workshop Objectives: Participants will be able to:
1. Teach graduate student researchers to navigate Research.gov and FastLane and provide overview of solicitation, supplementary document requirements,
and public access compliance requirements, including depositing in NSF-PAR

2. Point out common pitfalls for graduate students navigating and complying with solicitation and PAPPG

3. Conduct an evaluation of students previously funded …

Your Internet Data Is Rotting, Paul Royster

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Faculty Publications

The internet is growing, but old information continues to disappear daily.

Many MySpace users were dismayed to discover earlier this year that the social media platform lost 50 million files uploaded between 2003 and 2015. The failure of MySpace to care for and preserve its users’ content should serve as a reminder that relying on free third-party services can be risky. MySpace has probably preserved the users’ data; it just lost their content. The data was valuable to MySpace; the users’ content less so.

Preserving content or intellectual property on the internet presents a conundrum. If it’s accessible, then it …

Data Communities: A New Model For Supporting Stem Data Sharing [Issue Brief], Danielle Cooper, Rebecca Springer

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Excerpt (page 5):

The Data Community

This issue brief focuses on understanding what makes scholars willing to share their data – and on applying that understanding strategically in order to improve and increase sharing going forward. We recognize that this is only one aspect of the work that is needed in this area. Numerous professional organizations (CODATA, DCC, FORCE11, GO FAIR, RDA, and RDAP, to name just a few), in addition to a panoply of smaller projects and working groups, are making significant strides in defining standards and best practices in important technical areas such as metadata creation, discoverability, machine …

Bridging The Gaps: Finding Creative Solutions To Unmet Needs In A Growing Library Publishing Program, Julia Lovett, Andrée Rathemacher

Technical Services Faculty Presentations

Slides from a panel presentation, "Bridging the Gaps: Finding Creative Solutions to Unmet Needs in a Growing Library Publishing Program," presented at the 2019 Library Publishing Forum on May 10, 2019 in Vancouver, British Columbia.

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Friday, May 10, 2:30-3:30 pm

Room: Barrick Gold Lecture Room (1520)

Bridging the Gaps: Finding Creative Solutions to Unmet Needs in a Growing Library Publishing Program

Julia Lovett, Associate Professor, Digital Initiatives Librarian, University of Rhode Island; Andrée Rathemacher, Professor, Head of Acquisitions, University of Rhode Island

Description: With six peer-reviewed open access journals under our belt, our library publishing program at the University …

Students Perception Of Open Textbooks: Students Tell Us What They Think About Open Textbooks In Their Courses, Karen Bjork, Kristi Jensen

Library Faculty and Staff Publications and Presentations

Textbooks have long been an integral learning platform in higher education. As the rising cost of textbooks continues to burden students, many libraries have begun to facilitate the creation and publishing of open textbooks. While many colleges and universities have surveyed students about their textbook purchasing habits and interest in open textbooks, fewer surveys have captured student feedback on their actual hands on experiences with their resources. Portland State University (PSU) Library and the University of Minnesota (UofM) Libraries have both collected date from students about their experiences with open textbooks selected and created specifically for their courses.

In 2013, …

A Webometric Analysis Of Select Knowledge Portals Of National Repute In India, Tabasum Maqbool

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The purpose of the study is to understand the performance of knowledge portal of national repute in India on webometric scale and shall also assist admins of the select sites to take corrective measures if needed and also visualize a better and more efficient web presence. The study has selected the reputed knowledge portals of national importance for assessing their impact and performance in terms of webometrics. The investigator selected Alexa web ranking portal (https://www.alexa.com/) for harvesting the required data for select web portals. Besides, to gauge the revised web impact factor (RWIF) Developer Shed, an Open Site …

The Quest For Replicability: A Review Of Research Data Policies In Economics Journals, Melody Chin, Danping Dong

Research Collection Library

Research data openness serves as best practice and plays a critical role in facilitating the replicability and reproducibility of published research. In the field of Economics, journal data policies have been instrumental in encouraging the sharing of data and code, especially when the requirements are strict and enforceable. It is also evident that in recent years, increasing number of journals now has some form of research data policy in place. This paper attempts to analyze the data policies of the 74 general and field-specific Economics journals listed in the ranking database as part of the Tilburg University Top 100 Worldwide …

Research Dissemination @ Osgoode Hall Law School: An Update, Yemisi Dina, Teodora Naydenova

Librarian Publications & Presentations

A presentation on research dissemination metrics for Osgoode faculty with statistics derived from the Osgoode Digital Commons, SSRN, and HeinOnline.

Feedback Forwards: How We Found New Ways To Ask Our Students What They Want From The Library, Rachael Juskuv, Maura Keating, Patricia Lombardi, Allison Papini

Library Staff Publications, Presentations & Journal Articles

A team of Bryant University Librarians are participating in the EXCITE Transformation for Libraries program through the Connecticut State Library. We conducted a series of structured group and one-on-one conversations with students, faculty, and staff in order to learn about how they think and feel about teamwork, the library, and collaboration at the library. We found that students in particular were far more responsive to community sessions than in taking surveys.

Towards User-Centric Evaluation Of Uk Non-Print Legal Deposit: A Digital Library Futures White Paper, Paul Gooding, Melissa Terras, Linda Berube

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This white paper reports on the findings of the Digital Library Futures project (2017-2019), which investigates the impact of Non-Print Legal Deposit (NPLD) on academic legal deposit libraries and their users in the United Kingdom. It argues that discussions of NPLD have paid too little attention to user behaviour and requirements, and that it is necessary to adopt an ongoing user-focused evaluation framework to inform NPLD planning and implementation.

Core research was carried out at the University of Glasgow, the University of Edinburgh, the University of East Anglia, and University College London. We are grateful to our project partners, Cambridge …

Organizing Your Organization: Taxonomy And Organizational Schemes In A Health System Institutional Repository, Daina Dickman, Heather J. Martin

Books, Presentations, Posters, Etc.

Background: In the development of a new institutional repository, library staff at a large health system were faced with building an organizational structure that would be meaningful to both internal and external users. The health system context meant unique challenges designing a taxonomy that supported end users as well as institutional goals and branding. Health systems have unique user needs for specialized collections and organizational schemes. With a comparatively large volume of items being added there are also concerns with the backend structures to accommodate the institutions’ large research output.

Description: This large, recently merged health system did not already …

Building A Health System Institutional Repository: Setting Yourself Up For Success From The Start, Heather J. Martin, Barbara (Basia) Delawska-Elliott, Daina Dickman

Books, Presentations, Posters, Etc.

Background: While more common in university settings, institutional repositories (IR) have a place within hospitals and healthcare systems too, though the challenges in creating them may be different. This paper looks at the development of a Digital Commons institutional repository at Providence St. Joseph Health. The authors present the necessary steps for a successful initiative beginning with the planning process and building from there. Highlighted are some of the different challenges faced in non-academic settings; considerations when selecting a platform and designing and structure; and recommendations for doing outreach and promotion to unique user groups.

Description: Library staff proactively followed …

Scholars' Mine Quick Facts April 2019, 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.

Library Automation, Bhagvan Keshav Gavit Prof

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

It is a good impact of computers and data technology and its application on the libraries because of that a method of great amendment is happening in libraries. Modern technology is tending to alter radically the nature of our society and affect the prevailing economic, political and social values and libraries are also in the process. Industrialized countries were the primary to understand that within the context of stock of data, classical approaches concerning storage, retrieval and utilization of the information were no longer adequate and effective which the answer lay in creating fullest use of recent developments in physics, …

Institutional Repository Workflow, Project Management, And Outreach In A Remote/Online Library Environment, Daina Dickman

Books, Presentations, Posters, Etc.

In 2018 Providence St. Joseph Health launched an institutional repository, primarily staffed by a librarian located in Oregon and a library assistant located in Montana with occasional help from other Library Services staff. Workflow and communication standards had to be created that would allow library staff in multiple locations and time zones to seamlessly launch, populate, and manage the institutional repository. Outreach, instruction, and promotion tactics had to also be created to reach researchers and clinical staff across six states and 100+ locations.

Notes On Scholarly Journal Typesetting Using Adobe Indesign, Paul Royster

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As requested, I have put down some notes on the methods and rules for typesetting and page composition of scholarly journals, articles, and books. These are intended to aid in the production of professional-looking digital documents of an academic nature. Adobe InDesign is a desktop publishing software, often marketed as part of Adobe Creative Suite. This is a short, 6-page do's and don'ts on achieving a classical scholarly page design. Library publishers may wish to consult and agree or disagree with the thoughts expressed. Three sample templates are attached that may be used and adapted by those who wish.

When Research Is Relational: Supporting The Research Practices Of Indigenous Studies Scholars, Danielle Cooper

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In 2017 Ithaka S+R launched a project to explore the changing research methods and practices of Indigenous Studies scholars across Canada and the US with the goal of identifying services to better support them in ways that are also beneficial to Indigenous communities more broadly. The project was undertaken by a cohort of research teams at 11 academic libraries with guidance from a group of advisors comprised of Indigenous scholars and librarians. Each research team in the cohort developed findings and next steps based on their local research engaging with Indigenous Studies scholars at their own institutions (listed in Appendix …

The Good, The Bad, The Ugly: Open Access, And Predatory Publishers, R Philip Reynolds

Librarian and Staff Presentations

Presentation to help librarians and faculty to identify the warning signs of predatory publishers. Examples of emails from predatory publishers are included.

Using Information Literacy To The Lead The Fourth Industrial Revolution, Rachael Juskuv, Maura Keating

Library Staff Publications, Presentations & Journal Articles

Our future in the world ahead will include continued upskilling and dexterity in learning. While technical skills are crucial, we must be able to understand, be critical of, and evaluate the cultural, historical, and technical background behind the data to be effective users and creators of data. While data are the facts or details from which information is derived, individual pieces of data are rarely useful alone. For data to become information, data needs to be put into context. Information literacy is the tool that helps to build meaning. During this session, we’ll examine recent examples of data misunderstanding and …

Letter From The Faculty Mentor, Arthur J. Boston

Steeplechase: An ORCA Student Journal

Letter from Mr. AJ Boston, the faculty mentor for Steeplechase: An ORCA Student Journal, penned April 11, 2019.

Evaluation Complacency Or Evaluation Inertia? A Study Of Evaluative Metrics And Research Practices In Irish Universities, Lai Ma, Michael Ladisch

University Libraries Librarian and Staff Articles and Papers

Evaluative metrics have been used for research assessment in most universities and funding agencies with the assumption that more publications and higher citation counts imply increased productivity and better quality of research. This study investigates the understanding and perceptions of metrics, as well as the influences and implications of the use of evaluative metrics on research practices, including choice of research topics and publication channels, citation behavior, and scholarly communication in Irish universities. Semi-structured, in-depth interviews were conducted with researchers from the humanities, the social sciences, and the sciences in various career stages. Our findings show that there are conflicting …

How Faculty Demonstrate Impact: A Multi-Institutional Study Of Faculty Understandings, Perceptions, And Strategies Regarding Impact Metrics, Caitlin Bakker, Jonathan Bull, Nancy Courtney, Dan Desanto, Allison Langham-Putrow, Jenny Mcburney, Aaron Nichols

Library Faculty Presentations

Faculty and institutions are increasingly called upon to present succinct, quantified descriptions of their research impact to administrators, funders, legislators, and academics. This project sought to explore how and what researchers think about research impact measures across disciplines and institutions. Presenters will discuss findings from a multi-institutional survey of faculty (n=1202) addressing their familiarity with metrics and altmetrics and impression of the accuracy of these metrics. We discuss how researchers use such statistical measures to demonstrate the importance of their scholarship, and their attitudes towards use of scholarly metrics by administrators. We also address possible implications for librarians supporting these …

Copyright: Preserve, Protect, And Promote Your Research, Supplemental Resources, Sue Ann Gardner, Paul Royster

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Supplemental sources handed out during a presentation given on April 9, 2019 in the Cottonwood Room, East Union, University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Topics: Copyright, Fair Use, Educational use, UNL Digital Commons.