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The Benefits Of Scholars' Mine For Faculty, 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 document is an education brochure outlining the benefits Scholars' Mine provides to Faculty at the Missouri University of Science and Technology.

Scholars' Mine Non-Exclusive Distribution License, Library And Learning Resources

Scholarly Communications - Educational and Promotional Materials

The intent of the following license agreement is to give The Curators of the University of Missouri on behalf of Missouri University of Science and Technology (Missouri S&T) Library permission to post the material openly on the Web and to take the necessary steps to preserve the material (preserving the material might mean that the files will need to be converted to a different or newer version of a file format if the existing file format or the hardware/software needed to read it becomes obsolete). Authors who submit their work to the Missouri S&T Research Repository retain the copyright to …

Contributions To The Scholarly Record: Conferences & Symposia In The Repository, Jonathan Bull, Stephanie Davis-Kahl

Library Faculty Presentations

Many academic libraries have found opportunities to showcase unique content through conference-hosting services, such as website-hosting and conference proceeding publishing. This poster describes two libraries’ successful efforts to archive conference materials from an undergraduate research conference and a professional conference for scholars.

Through the lens of these two case studies, the repository coordinators will discuss engaging with presenters on topics of author rights, ethical use of others’ work in their presentations, creating a sustainable infrastructure for continued growth of the conference, and collaborating with faculty.

Acrl Environmental Scan 2015 Presentation, Jeanne R. Davidson, Wayne Bivens-Tatum, Michelle Leonard

Library Conference Presentations and Posters

Every two years, the ACRL Research Planning and Review Committee releases an environmental scan of higher education, including developments with the potential for continuing impact on academic libraries. The 2015 environmental scan provides a broad review of the current higher education landscape, with special focus on the state of academic and research libraries. The document builds on earlier ACRL reports, including the Top Trends in Academic Libraries. The 2015 environmental scan is freely available on the ACRL website (PDF). This presentation highlights key elements of the 2015 environmental scan.

Scholars' Mine: Supported File Type Guide, James Roger Weaver

Scholarly Communications - Educational and Promotional Materials

This is a guide to the file types support by Scholars' Mine, the institutional repository of the Missouri University of Science and Technology.

Streaming The Archives: Repurposing Systems To Jumpstart A Media Digitization Program, Talea Anderson

Library Scholarship

Presenting lessons learned by the archives at Central Washington University during the first year of its new media digitization program. This poster, presented in 2015 at ACRL's national conference, demonstrates how the archives jumpstarted its program by using available systems--an institutional repository and cloud-based streaming service--to disseminate digitized media. The poster presents advantages and disadvantages uncovered while using these repurposed systems, including consequences for metadata, workflow, interoperability, and discoverability.

Information And Communication Technology Adoption And Use Among Students Of A Nigerian University For Distance Learning, Akimkunmi Oluseun Omotosho Mr., Elizabeth Bukunola Lateef Mrs., Oyintola Isiaka Amusa Mr., Taoffik Olatunde Bello Mr.

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This study investigates the use of ICT for distance learning by students of the National Open University of Nigeria. A descriptive survey design was adopted for this study and the main instrument for data collection was questionnaire. Copies of the questionnaire were administered on students of the National Open University of Nigeria, main campus, Lagos. Findings from the data analysis revealed that the level of ICT use among the respondents was high and; easy accessibility to most of the ICT facilities needed for distance learning is identified as the major factor responsible for the high level of usage of ICT …

Data Information Literacy And Undergraduates: A Critical Competency, Yasmeen Shorish

Libraries

As a primer on data information literacy (DIL), this column will cover the background of the field and why it is relevant to college and university libraries serving undergraduate populations. This article includes how data information literacy relates to information literacy, competencies associated with DIL, the relevance of DIL to undergraduates, DIL in library instruction, and the reasons for library engagement with DIL. Examining DIL within the larger framework of information literacy can help outreach and instruction librarians engage with a format that may be unfamiliar to them but whose underlying foundation is well-established.

Concurrent Session 1: Resources For Open Education – Umass Boston Libraries And Oer: What Can You And Your Students Access For Free?, Mary Moser, Xuan Pang, Andrew Elder, Joanne Riley

OpenEd Forum

Librarians at UMass Boston discuss different models of using “fully open” and “modified open” educational resources in your classroom and in your scholarship and how UMass Boston librarians can support those efforts.

Keynote Address – Open Inspirations: Passionate Educators Succeeding With Open, Mary Lou Forward

OpenEd Forum

No abstract provided.

Big Data In Nsuworks, Michele Gibney, Keri Baker

Library Academic Fest for Faculty

Join librarians Michele Gibney and Keri Baker as they present an ongoing NSU project storing all of its big data research utilizing NSUWorks, our institutional repository.

10 Things You Should Know About...Scholarly Communication, Molly Keener, Joy Kirchner, Sarah Shreeves, Lee Van Orsdel

Copyright, Fair Use, Scholarly Communication, etc.

For its general concept, the authors are deeply indebted to the EDUCAUSE “Seven Things You Need to Know About…” reports.

Nsuworks Annual Report 2014-2015, Michele Gibney

Brochures, Pamphlets, and Reports of the NSU Alvin Sherman Library

In 2014 Nova Southeastern University celebrated its 50^th. In conjunction with the anniversary, the NSU Libraries determined a need to preserve the past, present and future of the university by creating a campus wide repository for all scholarship, creative work, and historical materials produced by the university. NSUWorks is a part of the NSU Libraries’ contribution to the university’s ongoing growth and success as an internationally recognized research institution. NSUWorks was launched at the Dean’s Meeting on November 2014, and reached its one year anniversary at the end of February 2015. The NSUWorks Annual Report covers the period …

The Stm Report: An Overview Of Scientific And Scholarly Journal Publishing, Mark Ware, Michael Mabe

Copyright, Fair Use, Scholarly Communication, etc.

Contents

Executive summary ● Scholarly communication ● The research cycle ● Types of scholarly communication ● Changes in scholarly communication system ● The journal ● What is a journal? ● The journals publishing cycle ● Sales channels and models ● Journal economics and market size ● Journal and articles numbers and trends ● Global trends in scientific output ● Authors and readers ● Publishers ● Peer review. ● Reading patterns ● Disciplinary differences ● Citations and the Impact Factor ● Costs of journal publishing ● Authors’ behaviour, perceptions and attitudes ● Publishing ethics ● Copyright and licensing ● Long term …

Beyond Beall’S List: Better Understanding Predatory Publishers, Monica Berger, Jill Cirasella

Publications and Research

This article discusses the phenomenon of predatory publishing and examines the benefits and limitations of Jeffrey Beall's blacklist of "potential, possible, or probable" predatory open access (OA) publishers. It also describes the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), a whitelist of scholarly OA journals, and other tools for evaluating open access journals. It concludes by discussing the role of librarians, who must help researchers avoid low-quality journals and also need to counteract the misconceptions and alarmism that stymie the acceptance of OA.

United States National Science Foundation (Nsf) Response To The Office Of Science And Technology Policy Memo, 2013: Public Access Plan (March 2015)

Copyright, Fair Use, Scholarly Communication, etc.

NSF response to OSTP memo, 2013: Public Access Plan (March 2015)

Research Focus And Trends In Nuclear Science And Technology In Ghana: A Bibliometric Study Based On The Inis Database, Elizabeth Ama Agyeman Ms., Albert Bilson Mr

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The peaceful application of atomic energy was introduced into Ghana about fifty years ago. This is the first bibliometric study of nuclear science and technology research publications listed in the International Nuclear Information System (INIS) Database, originating from Ghana. The purpose was to use the simple document counting method to determine the geographical distribution, annual growth and the subject areas of the publications as well as communication channels, key journals and authorship trends. The main findings of the study were that, a greater number of the nuclear science and technology records were published in Ghana (598 or 56.57% against 459 …

Maximizing Endnote For Research, Brian Ryckman

Library Academic Fest for Faculty

Learn how to use EndNote to capture, cite, and share information to help you organize course assignments and research projects.

Fair Use Fundamentals, Association Of Research Libraries, Yippa

Copyright, Fair Use, Scholarly Communication, etc.

Copyright law is a carefully balanced system meant to encourage creativity as well as cultural and scientific progress. The law encourages authors by giving them limited control over certain uses of their works, and it encourages everyone (including authors) to use existing cultural and scientific material without permission, under certain circumstances, to engage in a wide variety of vital activities. Many parts of the law favor the freedom to use culture, but by far and away the most flexible, powerful, and universal user’s right is fair use. As you’ll see below: fair use is a right, fair use is vitally …

Institutional Archives At Urban North American Universities: An Assessment Of Current Practices, J.B. Hill, Wanda V. Dole

Faculty Scholarship

This paper reports a study of institutional archives at urban and metropolitan universities that are members of the Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan Universities (CUMU). Founded in 1990, the CUMU is an organization of North American institutions of higher education committed to the shared mission to use the power of their campuses in education, research and service to enhance the communities in which they are located. Currently approximately 90 institutions are members of the CUMU. This paper reports the results of a survey to identify collections, staffing, reporting structures and institutional records management programs. It examines the challenges of collecting …