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Best Practice - Scholars' Mine Producing Quality Pdf Files, James Roger Weaver

Scholars' Mine - Policies, Procedures and Guidelines

Best practices employed by Scholars' Mine to create quality PDF files.

Factors Affecting Psychologists’ Adoption Of An Open Data Badge, Lindsey M. Harper, Youngseek Kim

Librarian Research

The purpose of this research is to investigate the individual, normative and resource factors affecting psychologists’ adoption of an open data badge. The theory of planned behavior is employed as the theoretical framework to explain how these factors impact behavioral intention to adopt an open data badge. A national survey (n=341) of psychologists found that perceived benefits, norms of data sharing and attitude towards an open data badge had a significant positive relationship with attitude toward the open data badge, whereas perceived risk had a significant negative relationship. Perceived effort had a negative relationship to behavioral intention to adopt the …

Scholars' Mine Quick Facts October 2017, James Roger Weaver

Scholars’ Mine Statistics

Scholars' Mine statistical quick facts for October 2017.

Information Outlook, September/October 2017, Special Libraries Association

Information Outlook, 2017

Volume 21, Issue 5

Annual Report Of The Indiana Universiy Maurer School Of Law Digital Repository 2016/17, Richard Vaughan

Digital Repository Annual Reports

A brief annual report documenting the use and growth of the Indiana University Maurer School of Law, Jerome Hall Law Library, Digital Repository. Includes lists of the most downloaded documents and attached Excel spreadsheets of data.

Undergraduate Research Needs: Faculty-Librarian Collaboration To Improve Information Literacy In Policy Papers, Michelle C. Pautz, Heidi Gauder

Political Science Faculty Publications

To improve the quality of semester-long policy projects of upper-division political science students, a faculty member and research librarian collaborated to reframe the assignment in hopes of improving students’ research skills and information literacy, revising the traditional one-way model of faculty sending students to the library to get information. The outcomes over the course of two semesters have been promising. Citations in two sets of student papers showed a remarkable increase in the number and quality of sources used. This suggests that when faculty work with librarians throughout the semester, such collaboration can improve students’ information literacy and thus their …

Heard On The Net: We’Ve Seen The Future And It Is Us Working Together, Jill Emery

Library Faculty and Staff Publications and Presentations

Column on collaborative and cooperative work in librarianship.

12+ Years An Ir Manager, Paul Royster

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Presentations

Survey of the history of the UNL DigitalCommons institutional repository: background, mission, usage, contents, trends, popularity, segments by series type, relative performance, IR assets, voluntary participation, faculty trust, results vis-a-vis SSRN, ResearchGate & Academia.edu, allies, obstacles, complaints, collection vs. service, gatekeepers, inclusiveness, ease of participation, feedback, disorder, the joy of giving, supplemental files, watermarking, encryption, customizations, base expansion, alerts, tracking faculty productivity, student workers, "Putting lipstick on the post-prints," packaging, publishing, journals, monographs, opportunity, publisher propaganda, the future, asymmetric contests, Elsevier as T. rex, innovation, disruption, control, Borges on the unknowables, pie chart of the universe, the physics of information, …

Policy - Scholars' Mine Governance, James Roger Weaver

Scholars' Mine - Policies, Procedures and Guidelines

The objective of this policy is to define how Scholars’ Mine is governed and managed.

Parallels Of Unintentional Plagiarism And Predatory Publishing: Understanding Root Causes And Solutions, Monica Berger

Publications and Research

Plagiarism and predatory publishing share common attributes. Although students do not publish in predatory journals, both plagiarism and predatory publishing fall under the umbrella of academic integrity and scholarly ethics. Academic misconduct has many faces, ranging from student cheating on exams to purchasing a doctoral thesis and claiming it as one’s own work. Some forms of academic misconduct, such as the examples above are always intentional. However, many manifestations of academic misconduct are less clearly intentional. Students often plagiarize unintentionally because they lack writing skills including paraphrasing and citing. Faculty sometimes publish with predatory journals when they lack scholarly publishing …

Digital Scholarship And Community Engagement, Sheila Brennan, Sharon Leon

Digital Scholarship Symposia

No abstract provided.

Policy - Scholars' Mine Withdrawal Of Content, James Roger Weaver

Scholars' Mine - Policies, Procedures and Guidelines

The objective of this policy is to define the circumstances under which content can be removed from Scholars’ Mine and the associated process for removal.

Connecting Wikipedia And The Archive: Building A Public History Of Hiv/Aids In New York City., Ann Matsuuchi

Publications and Research

This is an overview of a project that was started in 2015 that was collaboratively designed by archivists and historians with the La Guardia & Wagner Archives and LaGuardia Community College’s faculty/librarians. It involves students in the production of a needed public history of the outbreak and impact of HIV/AIDS in New York City via writing and researching contributions to Wikipedia.

Policy - Scholars' Mine Acceptable Content, James Roger Weaver

Scholars' Mine - Policies, Procedures and Guidelines

The purpose of this policy is to define the types of content that Scholars’ Mine will accept and any additional acceptance requirements.

Policy - Scholars’ Mine Access And Use, James Roger Weaver

Scholars' Mine - Policies, Procedures and Guidelines

The purpose of this policy is to define the parameters of access and use for digital content housed in Scholars’ Mine the institutional repository for the Missouri University of Science and Technology.

Librarians In Transition: Scholarly Communication As A Core Competency, Steve Brantley, Todd Bruns, Kirstin Duffin

Faculty & Staff Research & Creative Activity

Modern digital scholarship requires faculty to navigate an increasingly complex research and publication world. Liaison librarians are uniquely suited to assist faculty with scholarly communication needs, yet faculty do not identify the library as a provider of these services. Proactive promotion of scholarly communication services by librarians is needed. In this article, scholarly communication training developed for librarians at a mid-sized public university is described. Two surveys—describing faculty digital scholarship needs and librarian attitudes toward scholarly communication services—are presented. Articulating scholarly communication support as a core competency affirms the importance of this developing role for librarians.

Craft Publishing: A Proposal For A Programmatic Paradigm Shift In Academic Libraries--A Recap Of A Presentation Given At Cni In Spring 2016, Sue Ann Gardner, Paul Royster, Linnea Fredrickson, Brian Rosenblum, Ada Emmett

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Presentations

Synopsis

Includes information on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries publishing test case, metrics pertaining to the academic publishing market, and details about what constitutes craft publishing.

Conclusion

Small-scale publishing in hundreds of libraries in the United States is viable and can serve to balance the economics of the current scholarly publishing market.

Includes a bibliography of sources for further reading.

Copyright For Publishing 2, Paul Royster

Copyright, Fair Use, Scholarly Communication, etc.

For B. Rilett's Editing & Publishing class, August 28, 2017. Updated for Sept. 13, 2018.

Workflow - Scholars' Mine Manually Submitted Publication Workflow, James Roger Weaver

Scholars' Mine - Policies, Procedures and Guidelines

A graphic representation of the workflow utilized to process faculty publications manually submitted to Scholars' Mine.

The 2.5% Commitment, David W. Lewis

Copyright, Fair Use, Scholarly Communication, etc.

The commitment: Every academic library should commit to contribute 2.5% of its total budget to support the common infrastructure needed to create the open scholarly commons.