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Open Scholarship For Open Education: Building The Justpublics@365 Pooc, Shawn(ta) Smith-Cruz, Polly Thistlethwaite, Jessie Daniels 2014 CUNY Graduate Center

Open Scholarship For Open Education: Building The Justpublics@365 Pooc, Shawn(Ta) Smith-Cruz, Polly Thistlethwaite, Jessie Daniels

Publications and Research

This article outlines the collaboration between librarians at the Graduate Center Library of the City University of New York (CUNY) and JustPublics@365 (http://justpublics365.commons.gc.cuny.edu/about/), an initiative designed to open scholarly communication in ways that connect to social justice activism, part of which involved producing an open, online interdisciplinary course with a geographical focus on East Harlem. This Participatory Open Online Course, or POOC, was developed locally without a licensed provider platform or licensed scholarly content. It was designed to be open to CUNY students, to citizens of East Harlem, and to a global public with an interest in social …


The Interinter-University Consortium For Political And Social Research And The Data Seal Of Approval: Accreditation Experiences , And Opportunities, M Vardigan, J Lyle 2014 Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

The Interinter-University Consortium For Political And Social Research And The Data Seal Of Approval: Accreditation Experiences , And Opportunities, M Vardigan, J Lyle

Copyright, Fair Use, Scholarly Communication, etc.

The Inter Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), a domain repository with a 50 50-year track record of archiving social and behavioural science data, applied for for—and acquired acquired—the Data Seal of Approval (DSA) in 2010. DSA is a non non-intrusive, straightforward approach to assessing organizational, technical, and operational infrastructure infrastructure, and signifies a basic level of accreditation . DSA assessment helped ICPSR become more transparent , monitor and improve archival processes and procedures , and raise awareness within the organization and beyond about best practice practices for repositories repositories. We relate our experience experiences with the DSA …


Building On The International Polar Year : D Iscovering Interdisciplinary Data Through Federated Search, L. Yarmey, S.J. Khalsa 2014 University of Colorado Boulder

Building On The International Polar Year : D Iscovering Interdisciplinary Data Through Federated Search, L. Yarmey, S.J. Khalsa

Copyright, Fair Use, Scholarly Communication, etc.

The legacy of the International Polar Year 2007 2007–2008 (IPY) includes advances in open data and meaningful progress toward towards interoperability of data, systems, and standards. Enabled by metadata brokering technologies and by the growing adoption of international metadata standards, federated data search welcomes diversity in Arctic data and recognizes the value of expertise in community data repositories repositories. Federated search enables specialized data holdings to be discovered by broader audiences and complements the role of metadata registries such as the Global Change Master Directory, providing interoperability across the Arctic web-of -repositories.


Faculty Author Rights Workshop: Strategies For Retaining Your (Copy)Rights, Char Booth, M. Sara Lowe, Allegra Swift 2014 Claremont University Consortium

Faculty Author Rights Workshop: Strategies For Retaining Your (Copy)Rights, Char Booth, M. Sara Lowe, Allegra Swift

Open Access Week @ The Claremont Colleges

The publication process can feel like a one-sided negotiation, with journal and book publishers holding the power to dictate restrictive terms of use and reuse. Thanks to a growing number of strategies and tools, this is no longer necessarily the case.

By empowering attendees with insight into author addenda and open access (OA) repositories, this hands-on interactive session will explore how researchers and authors can advocate for themselves in their relationship with their publishers.

You will leave this workshop with a skillset that can help you retain copyright and maximize your scholarly impact.


Imls Place Grant: Press Release 2, PLACE Project Group 2014 University of New Hampshire

Imls Place Grant: Press Release 2, Place Project Group

PLACE Project

Press release dated October 25, 2014, describing the PLACE (Position-based Location Archive Coordinate Explorer) project that is funded by the Institute for Museum and Library Services. The University of New Hampshire (UNH) library partnered with the UNH Earth Systems Research Center to develop a geospatial interface that is searchable by geospatial coordinates.

Sent to the Geoportal Web page (Patrick Florence).


Hanging With Hydra, Nathan Tallman 2014 University of Cincinnati - Main Campus

Hanging With Hydra, Nathan Tallman

Ohio IR Day

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Automating Steps In The Ir Workflow, Marsha Miles 2014 Cleveland State University

Automating Steps In The Ir Workflow, Marsha Miles

Ohio IR Day

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Encouraging Librarians: Finding A Good Path, Barbara Strauss 2014 Cleveland State University

Encouraging Librarians: Finding A Good Path, Barbara Strauss

Ohio IR Day

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Archival Material In Institutional Repositories, Lindy Smith 2014 Ohio State University - Main Campus

Archival Material In Institutional Repositories, Lindy Smith

Ohio IR Day

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Openurl, Elisabeth R. Shook 2014 Wright State University - Main Campus

Openurl, Elisabeth R. Shook

Ohio IR Day

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Copyright Considerations For Institutional Repositories, Jessica Meindertsma 2014 Ohio State University - Main Campus

Copyright Considerations For Institutional Repositories, Jessica Meindertsma

Ohio IR Day

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Supporting Institutional Repositories Through Interlibrary Loan Workflows, Angela Galvan 2014 Ohio State University - Main Campus

Supporting Institutional Repositories Through Interlibrary Loan Workflows, Angela Galvan

Ohio IR Day

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Developing Faculty Buy-In For Undergraduate Etds: A Case Study Of Policy, Process, And Institutionalization, Stephen Flynn 2014 College of Wooster

Developing Faculty Buy-In For Undergraduate Etds: A Case Study Of Policy, Process, And Institutionalization, Stephen Flynn

Ohio IR Day

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The Role Of Irs In Open Access, Ann Connolly 2014 bepress

The Role Of Irs In Open Access, Ann Connolly

Ohio IR Day

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Sharing Research Data For Advancing Innovation And Scholarship, Matthew Zook 2014 University of Kentucky

Sharing Research Data For Advancing Innovation And Scholarship, Matthew Zook

Generation Open: Researchers' Roles in the Age of Openness

Dr. Matthew Zook from UK Department of Geography focuses on the value of openly sharing research data, especially in terms of how it contributes to scholarship, innovation, and the public good.

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Open Access: A Researcher’S Perspective, Thoughts And Experience, F. Douglas Scutchfield 2014 University of Kentucky

Open Access: A Researcher’S Perspective, Thoughts And Experience, F. Douglas Scutchfield

Generation Open: Researchers' Roles in the Age of Openness

Dr. Douglas Scutchfield from UK College of Public Health discusses the benefits of open access from the researcher's perspective, and his personal experience of taking the lead to support open access by creating a new open access journal, Frontiers in Public Health Services and Systems Research.

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Generation Open, Mary Molinaro 2014 University of Kentucky

Generation Open, Mary Molinaro

Generation Open: Researchers' Roles in the Age of Openness

Mary Molinaro provides a description of the current research environment and the expectation of researchers' roles.

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Open Access And The Health Professions, Musselman Library 2014 Gettysburg College

Open Access And The Health Professions, Musselman Library

Open Access Week at Gettysburg College

Health Sciences students at Gettysburg College have bountiful access to scholarly and medical publications, but what happens after graduation? When you enter a health profession, will you be able to access the information you need to make informed decisions on the job?

Students are asking hard questions about the cost of information, who pays, and why it matters (see this SURGE blog post for one perspective: Information – Access:Denied). Learn more about the publishing system that fuels your learning, including the growing importance of “open access” publishing.

Please join us for a fun program during Open Access Week. This …


Open Access Journals Make Sense For Science, Robert Bellin PhD 2014 College of the Holy Cross

Open Access Journals Make Sense For Science, Robert Bellin Phd

Open Access Week at Holy Cross

Today’s talk will be about some of the open access publication options available in biomolecular science, and the advantages that these types of journal provide for research scientists in the current era of publishing.


The Three Hats Of Sarah Campbell, Or, Can You Believe That's Online?, Sarah Campbell M.A., M.S.I.S. 2014 College of the Holy Cross

The Three Hats Of Sarah Campbell, Or, Can You Believe That's Online?, Sarah Campbell M.A., M.S.I.S.

Open Access Week at Holy Cross

The speaker is a faithful user of open access materials in her profession and also provides open access to the College’s Archives and Special Collections through the Archives’ website, Crossworks and the Internet Archive. However, it wasn’t until she was accepted into the American Needlepoint Guild’s Master Needlework Artist Program that she developed a deep appreciation for unrestricted online access to primary source documents. In The Three Hats of Sarah Campbell, Ms. Campbell will discuss how the discovery of one online resource made her truly invested in the cause of open access.


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