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Open Educational Resources: Expanding The Conversation Regarding Adoption And Use On A College Campus, Erin Mccoy

The Christian Librarian

As more institutions explore Open Educational Resource (OER) initiatives, librarians should be involved in the campus-wide conversation. Also, OER means more than free online textbooks; a broader conversation needs to be prioritized as institutions step into the OER movement. This article is an adaptation of the author’s presentation at the 2016 Annual Conference of the Association of Christian Librarians, titled “Out of Bounds: Exploring Open Educational Resources.”

Getting Faculty Works Into Institutional Repositories: From Practical To Policy, Jessea K. Young

Librarian Publications & Presentations

No abstract provided.

The Current State Of Meta-Repositories For Data, Cynthia Hudson-Vitale

WashU Libraries Publications

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Publishing Case Studies In Health Sciences Librarianship, Katherine G. Akers, Kathleen Amos

Library Scholarly Publications

While most issues of the Journal of the Medical Library Association (JMLA) contain one or two case studies, the JMLA editorial team is pleased to note that the current issue contains six case studies, highlighting a wide range of library-driven initiatives to support health sciences research and education.

Er&L 2017: Tacos, Queso, And Electronic Resources, Jill Emery

Library Faculty and Staff Publications and Presentations

Provides an overview of the 2017 Electronic Resources & Libraries Annual Conference.

Journal Evaluation Tool, Shilpa Rele, Marie Kennedy, Nataly Blas

Librarian Publications & Presentations

The changing mechanisms of scholarly publishing may make it difficult for you to determine where to publish the results of your research or creative works. In order to assist you in making the best decisions for your work, and to avoid journals that may not be credible, the William H. Hannon Library has developed a rubric for the evaluation of journals. Our focus during the development of this tool was specifically to address the concerns of our Loyola Marymount University faculty about Open Access journals, but this rubric may be applied more broadly to any kind of journal.

Nist Response To Ostp Memo, 2013: Public Access Plan (April 2017)

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NIST response to OSTP memo, 2013: Public Access Plan (April 2017)

Predicting The Impact Of Software Engineering Topics: An Empirical Study, Santonu Sarkar, Rumana Lakdawala, Subhajit Datta

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Predicting the future is hard, more so in active research areas. In this paper, we customize an established model for citation prediction of research papers and apply it on research topics. We argue that research topics, rather than individual publications, have wider relevance in the research ecosystem, for individuals as well as organizations. In this study, topics are extracted from a corpus of software engineering publications covering 55,000+ papers written by more than 70,000 authors across 56 publication venues, over a span of 38 years, using natural language processing techniques. We demonstrate how critical aspects of the original paper-based prediction …

Institutional Repositories, Evidence Exchange, And Other Options To Share Your Findings And Research With The World, And How To Retain Your Rights., Kimberly S. Mollo, Otd, Otr/L, Daniel G. Kipnis, Msi

Department of Occupational Therapy Posters and Presentations

Objective 1: Understand the need for open access to research and interventions

Objective 2: Be aware for the available venues for disseminating research findings

Did you come up with a new intervention, and would you like to share it with the world? Would you like a secure place to put your conference posters and handouts from your AOTA and other professional presentations? If so then Open Access is for you. This discussion among peers will discuss how you are preserving your research, and how we could collaborate more to share our findings across the country.

Credo Online Reference Service, Larry Sheret

Librarian Research

Credo Online Reference Service, popularly known as Credo Reference, is an e-reference database for K-12, public libraries, and academic libraries. The user-friendly interface provides an excellent place for students to begin their research, or to learn about the process of doing research during information literacy instruction. Instructors are provided with pre-proxied permalinks and embed codes that allow them to integrate any part of this resource into their learning management system.

A Tale Of Two Campuses: Local And Global Approaches To Reducing Textbook Costs, Eleta Exline, Jen Carroll, Annie E. Donahue

University Library Scholarship

Poster presented at Association of College and Research Libraries 2017 National Conference, Baltimore, Maryland. March 24, 2017

Opportunities And Risks: Perceptions Of Student Publishing From Across Campus, Barbara Defelice, Laura Barrett

Dartmouth Library Staff Publications

We are developing an experiential learning program, “Preparing Students to be Arbiters of New Scholarship,” funded by our campus teaching center. Through this work, we have found much enthusiasm for publishing student scholarship. However, we have also heard a wide range of concerns about sharing student work more widely. In this poster, we will describe how we are engaging both the enthusiasm and the concerns as rich opportunities in an experiential learning framework.

Student journal publishing is intrinsically a co-curricular experiential learning activity. Our campus’s framework for experiential learning includes: 1. Innovate and take risks 2. Solve complex problems 3. …

"Fake Results": The Reproducibility Crisis In Research And Open Science Solutions, Andrée Rathemacher

Technical Services Faculty Presentations

These are the slides and speaker's notes for a panel presentation given at the University of Rhode Island on March 23, 2017. The presentation was part of a panel chaired by Professor Karen F. Stein (Department of English and Gender and Women's Studies Program) titled "Finding Reliable Information in a 'Post-Fact' World." Co-panelists were Professor Amanda Izenstark (University Libraries), Professor Brian Krueger (Chair, Department of Political Science), Professor John Pantalone (Chair, Department of Journalism), and Professor Christine Zozula (Department of Sociology and Anthropology).

The panel was presented by the Coalition to Encourage Civic Engagement and was co-sponsored by the URI …

Starting From The End: What To Do When Restricted Data Is Released, Marta Teperek, Rhys Morgan, Michelle Ellefson, Danny Kingsley

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Repository managers can never be one hundred percent sure of the security of hosted research data. Even assuming that human errors and technical faults will never happen, repositories can be subject to hacking attacks. Therefore, repositories accepting personal/sensitive data (or other forms of restricted data) should have workflows in place with defined procedures to be followed should things go wrong and restricted data is inappropriately released. In this paper we will report on our considerations and procedures when restricted data from our institution was inappropriately released.

Collaborative Approach To The Creation Of Open Textbooks: From Fundraising To Publishing, Karen Bjork, Marilyn K. Moody

Library Faculty and Staff Publications and Presentations

Open access textbook publishing initiatives not only provide libraries the opportunity to recast their longstanding mission to facilitate research and remove barriers to information but they also impact student affordability efforts. How can a library build a program that will meet the needs of students, faculty, and administrators? The answer lies in collaboration and sharing. In 2013, with the support of a Provost-backed initiative, Portland State University (PSU) Library developed an open textbook publishing program that works with faculty to create open textbooks specifically designed for a course. The publishing initiative, PDXOpen, has published 10 open textbooks with an additional …

Research Data Mangement Presentation For Proposal Writing Workshop, James Roger Weaver

Scholarly Communications - Educational and Promotional Materials

Presentation on Research Data Management at the Proposal Writing Workshop Sponsored by the Office of Sponsored Programs on March 17th. 2017.

Repository Review: Nasa Pubspace, Laura Pope Robbins

Publications

Laura Pope Robbins is an advisor for The Charleston Advisor, and the review below is included in Scholarly Commons with the permission of the publisher.

PubSpace is a repository of full-text peer-reviewed articles resulting from NASA-funded research going back to 1961. The National Center for Biotechnology Information has integrated PubSpace into PubMed Central, a freely available repository of medical research. Using an established, stable, government-hosted platform for PubSpace seems to make sense. However, the lack of clear branding, an uneven application of phrase searching, and a missing thesaurus of NASA terminology highlights that this integration may not be the best.

Recruitment Of Reviewers Is Becoming Harder At Some Journals: A Test Of The Influence Of Reviewer Fatigue At Six Journals In Ecology And Evolution, Charles W. Fox, Arianne Y. K. Albert, Timothy H. Vines

Entomology Faculty Publications

Background: It is commonly reported by editors that it has become harder to recruit reviewers for peer review and that this is because individuals are being asked to review too often and are experiencing reviewer fatigue. However, evidence supporting these arguments is largely anecdotal.

Main body: We examine responses of individuals to review invitations for six journals in ecology and evolution. The proportion of invitations that lead to a submitted review has been decreasing steadily over 13 years (2003–2015) for four of the six journals examined, with a cumulative effect that has been quite substantial (average decline from 56% of …

Publish. Don't Perish., Megan Wacha

Events

In this workshop, attendees learned how to choose a publisher that will allow their work to have the widest readership possible. Topics included how to find and evaluate a journal to publish a work, reading and negotiating contracts, and sharing a work so it can have maximum impact.

[University Of Nebraska-Lincoln] Digital Commons Ranked Among World's Best, University Of Nebraska-Lincoln

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The University of Nebraska-Lincoln Digital Commons, a collaborative service provided by the University Libraries, was recently ranked among the best digital repositories in the world (as of March 2017).