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A Studio Model For Academic Data Services, Samantha Guss

University Libraries Faculty and Staff Publications

This book serves as proof that there are plenty of effective ways to provide data services in an academic environment and that there can never be a one-size-fits-all approach. It is still valuable, however, to look closely at other's service models--to learn from successes, to borrow concepts and metaphors from other realms, and to think about one's own services through new lenses. A service model is a framework used to describe and understand the "who, what, where, when, and how" of a service from different stakeholders' perspectives; it can serve as a useful tool for developing and improving data services …

Pdxscholar Annual Report 2015, Karen Bjork, Sherry Buchanan, David Coate, Bertrand Robinson, Stacey Schlatter

Library Faculty and Staff Publications and Presentations

This report details the fifth year of operation for PDXScholar, Portland State University's institutional repository. The report covers the period between January 1, 2015 and December 31, 2015.

Committing To The Non-Traditional: The Path To The Incorporation Of 3d Models In An Online Journal, Dillon Mark Wackerman, Robert Z. Selden Jr.

Central University Libraries Research

In 2013 Dr. Robert Selden approached the Center for Digital Scholarship (CDS) at Stephen F. Austin State University (SFA) inquiring about the possibility of including interactive 3D models in a digital collection. Working with Dr. Selden, the CDS found a platform to which these models could be deposited and displayed. Concurrently, the CDS was actively promoting SFA’s institutional repository, SFA ScholarWorks. One guiding idea behind these IR-focused activities was the emphasis of the legitimacy of non-traditional works in respect to SFA ScholarWorks and the academic community as a whole. This idea and acceptance of the non-traditional was maintained as the …

Creating An Institutional Repository: Elements For Success, Dillon Wackerman, Corrie Marsh

Central University Libraries Research

Pre-conference workshop that focused on how to develop an institutional repository at any level.

Elements Of The Successful Ir, Dillon Wackerman, Corrie Marsh

Central University Libraries Research

A pre-conference workshop on how to develop and maintain a successful institutional repository.

Fair Use And Transformation, 1990-2016: What Now For Libraries And Archives?, Dillon Wackerman

Central University Libraries Research

A brief overview of fair use in an informal and formal treatment, leading to a focus on Pierre Leval, the 1994 Campbell v. Acuff-Rose case and the development of "transformation" as means of interpretation.

E-Book Reading Practices In Different Subject Areas: An Exploratory Log Analysis, Robert S. Freeman, E. Stewart Saunders

Libraries Faculty and Staff Scholarship and Research

Print books pose inherent difficulties for researchers who want to observe users’ natural in-book reading patterns. With e-books and logs of their use it is now possible to track several aspects of users’ interactions inside e-books, including the number and duration of their sessions with an e-book and the order in which pages are viewed. This chapter reports on a study of one-year of EBL user log data from Purdue University to identify different reading patterns or ways in which users navigate within different types of e-books—authored monographs vs. edited collections--and in e-books in different subject areas. The analysis of …

The Labor Of Informational Democracy: A Library And Information Science Framework For Evaluating The Democratic Potential In Socially- Generated Information, Jonathan Cope

Publications and Research

This essay outlines a framework that LIS can use to analyze socially-generated information. The proposed evaluative framework involves three democratic horizons of analysis: the level of access, the level of production, and the level of communicative speech. This inquiry synthesizes the political economy of communication/librarianship, autonomist Marxist insights about the dematerialization of labor in late capitalism, and the concerns of contemporary democratic theory. The essay concludes with a set of proposals for LIS to pursue research and policies that use a critical theoretical framework linking the realm of production (i.e., labor) with communicative democracy.

Finding The Public Domain: Copyright Review Management System Toolkit, Richard C. Adler, Justin Bonfiglio, Kristina Eden, Brian S. Hall, Melissa Levine, University Of Michigan Library Copyright Office

Copyright, Fair Use, Scholarly Communication, etc.

Working over a span of nearly eight years, the University of Michigan Library received three grants from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) to generously fund CRMS, a cooperative effort by partner research libraries to identify books in the public domain in HathiTrust. In CRMS- US (2008– 11), CRMS reviewed over 170,000 volumes in the HathiTrust Digital Library that were published in the United States between 1923 and 1963 (“CRMS- US”). That first project team— which included reviewers from the University of Michigan, the University of Wisconsin, the University of Minnesota, and Indiana University— identified nearly 87,000 volumes …

Intellectual Freedom For Authors: A Very Brief Overview Of United States Copyright, Sue Ann Gardner

Copyright, Fair Use, Scholarly Communication, etc.

VIII: Intellectual Freedom for Authors: A Very Brief Overview of United States Copyright

What Can Be Copyrighted and What Rights Are Conferred?

Who Owns Copyright in a Work?

Copyright Formalities

Transfer of Copyright

Length of Term of Copyright

Permissions and Licensing

Fair Use

Consequences of Infringement

Scholars' Mine Quick Facts January 2016, James Roger Weaver

Scholars’ Mine Statistics

Scholars' Mine statistics report for January 2016.

Final Report: Eunis – Eurocris Joint Survey On Cris And Ir, Lígia Ribeiro, Pablo De Castro, Michele Mennielli

Copyright, Fair Use, Scholarly Communication, etc.

The rising strategic importance of Current Research Information Systems (CRISs) and Institutional Repositories (IRs) for higher education and research institutions relates to the need to foster research and innovation and to provide a faster and broader technology transfer to industry and society. These are critical factors for global competitiveness, and the increasing competition among institutions to increase and disseminate excellence in research is another area where these systems provide a key contribution. Additional important elements with a strong impact on such strategic evolution are the new policies on Open Access, National Research Assessment and Research Funding. It is indeed from …

Altmetrics Definitions And Use Cases, National Information Standards Organization (Niso)

Copyright, Fair Use, Scholarly Communication, etc.

The NISO Alternative Assessment Metrics Initiative was begun in July 2013 with funding from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and divided into two phases. Phase II of the Project, which began in late 2014, set out to develop standards covering particular action items identified in Phase I through the creation of three NISO working groups. This document represents the output of the working group tasked with the following action items:

1. To come up with specific definitions for the terms commonly used in alternative assessment metrics, enabling different stakeholders to talk about the same thing; and

2. To identify the …

Social Media Events Public Relations Form, Joan Barnes

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Faculty Publications

This is the UNL Libraries Social Media Events PR form which allows event planners to create a checklist to manage distribution of event information.

Strengthening Research Through Data Sharing, Elizabeth Warren

Copyright, Fair Use, Scholarly Communication, etc.

Data sharing has incredible potential to strengthen academic research, the practice of medicine, and the integrity of the clinical trial system. Some benefits are obvious: when researchers have access to complete data, they can answer new questions, explore different lines of analysis, and more efficiently conduct large-scale analyses across trials. Other advantages, such as providing a guardrail against conflicts of interest in a clinical trial system in which external sponsorship of research is common and necessary, are less visible yet just as critical. I appreciate that there are many policy, privacy, and practical issues that need to be addressed in …

Converting Scholarly Journals To Open Access: A Review Of Approaches And Experiences, David J. Solomon, Mikael Laakso, Bo-Christer Björk, Peter Suber Editor

Copyright, Fair Use, Scholarly Communication, etc.

This report identifies ways through which subscription-based scholarly journals have converted their publishing models to open access (OA). The major goal was to identify specific scenarios that have been used or proposed for transitioning subscription journals to OA so that these scenarios can provide options for others seeking to “flip” their journals to OA. The report is based on the published literature as well as “gray” literature such as blog posts and press releases. In addition, interviews were conducted with eight experts in scholarly publishing. The report identifies a variety of goals for converting a journal to OA. While there …

Recommendations For Standardized International Rights Statements, Rightsstatements.Org, International Rights Statements Working Group

Copyright, Fair Use, Scholarly Communication, etc.

Europeana, the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA), and many other 1 2 libraries, archives and other cultural heritage institutions believe that everyone should be able to engage with their cultural heritage online. We can help achieve this by giving cultural heritage institutions simple and standardized terms to summarize the copyright status of Works in their collection and how they may be used. These simple and standardized terms we call “Rights Statements.” Providing this information is essential for those who wish to actively engage with the Works they find online. Can they use it in a school report? Print it …

Monograph Costing Tool: A User’S Guide, Nancy Maron, Kim Schmelzinger

Copyright, Fair Use, Scholarly Communication, etc.

This tool is designed to help presses of all sizes determine the full costs of publishing monographs. It may be useful if you are preparing to apply for a subvention to publish a monograph and need an itemized cost statement. Or, it might just be information you need to have in order to better assess and run your business. The process described below will be easiest if centrally coordinated, whether by the press director, business manager, or the Chief Financial Officer. It will almost certainly require some time for departmental heads. Whether or not you choose to involve more staff …

Open Educational Resources: Policy, Costs And Transformation, Fengchun Miao, Sanjaya Mishra, Rory Mcgreal

Copyright, Fair Use, Scholarly Communication, etc.

Open Educational Resources (OER) — teaching, learning and research materials that their owners make free for others to use, revise and share — offer a powerful means of expanding the reach and effectiveness of worldwide education.

The Commonwealth of Learning (COL) and UNESCO co-organised the World OER Congress in 2012 in Paris. That Congress resulted in the OER Paris Declaration: a statement that urged governments around the world to release, as OER, all teaching, learning and research materials developed with public funds.

This book, drawing on 15 case studies contributed by 29 OER researchers and policy-makers from 15 countries across …

United States Geological Survey (Usgs) Response To The Office Of Science And Technology Policy Memo, 2013: Public Access Plan (January 2016)

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USGS response to OSTP memo, 2013: Public Access Plan (January 2016)