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Open Access, Academic Libraries And The Future Of Scholarly Publishing, Elena Šimukovič

Copyright, Fair Use, Scholarly Communication, etc.

●Background on research project ●Open Access: a long desire for transition ●Open Access targets in Europe ●OA2020 – setting a new horizon? ●Counter-narratives and inner resistances ●What about libraries? ●Discussion & concluding remarks

Scholars' Mine Quick Facts December 2016, James Roger Weaver

Scholars’ Mine Statistics

Scholars' Mine statistical quick facts for December 2016.

Across The Great Divide: Findings And Possibilities For Action From The 2016 Summit Meeting Of Academic Libraries And University Presses With Administrative Relationships (P2l), Mary Rose Muccie, Joe Lucia, Elliott Shore, Clifford Lynch, Peter Berkery

Copyright, Fair Use, Scholarly Communication, etc.

The library-press relationship explored in P2L allows for transformative approaches in support and dissemination of scholarship. Effective exploitation of these partnerships is in the early stages and there is an opportunity to influence the outcomes to ensure they are as broadly applicable and scalable as possible. As Cliff Lynch (CNI) noted in his summary of the day’s conversation, we must do more exploration of both intra-institutional (library and press) and cross-institutional collaborations. He provided several compelling suggestions for partnerships, including new ways to promote and leverage library special collections as well as ideas for increasing discoverability of press content. (See …

Open Scholarly Publishing Plugin, Barry Bailey

Sabbatical Projects

Presentation reflecting author's sabbatical project, which reviewed the need for and developed a plugin to allow institutions to convert WordPress into an institutional repository.

The Future Of Web Citation Practices, Robin Camille Davis

Publications and Research

Citing webpages has been a common practice in scholarly publications for nearly two decades as the Web evolved into a major information source. But over the years, more and more bibliographies have suffered from “reference rot”: cited URLs are broken links or point to a page that no longer contains the content the author originally cited. In this column, I look at several studies showing how reference rot has affected different academic disciplines. I also examine citation styles’ approach to citing web sources. I then turn to emerging web citation practices: Perma, a “freemium” web archiving service specifically for citation; …

Being A Scholar In The Digital Era: Transforming Scholarly Practice For The Public Good, Polly Thistlethwaite, Jessie Daniels

Publications and Research

What opportunities do digital technologies present scholars? How do developments in digital media support scholarship and teaching, and how can academics apply them to further social justice activism? The authors, a sociologist and a librarian, examine scholarly practice in the digital era to explore how academics, journalists, and activists can combine efforts to support social justice issues. With scholarly communication undergoing rapid change, and with digital innovation applied in higher education for many reasons, authors outline what scholars can do to channel their work to benefit the public good.

United States Department Of Homeland Security Response To The Office Of Science And Technology Policy Memo, 2013: Public Access Plan (December 2016)

Copyright, Fair Use, Scholarly Communication, etc.

DHS response to OSTP memo, 2013: Public Access Plan (December 2016)

Changing The Landscape Of Scholarship, Louis Mirando, F. Tim Knight

Librarian Publications & Presentations

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Building Student Media Publication Content In Digital Commons: Advice From The Trenches, Virginia Dressler

Digital Commons + Northern Ohio User Group

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Using Digital Commons To Publish Award-Winning Student Scholarship, Joe Clark

Digital Commons + Northern Ohio User Group

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Author Rights: Undergraduate Workshop, Sarah A. Norris

Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

Workshop given to undergraduate students on November 16, 2016. The workshop provides information about general copyright and author rights for undergraduate students interested in publishing in academic journals and monographs.

Opening Access, Increasing Impact: Irs Are Ideal For Smaller Institutions!, Janelle L. Wertzberger

All Musselman Library Staff Works

What do smaller academic institutions need to know about institutional repositories and open access? Student and faculty authors enjoy many benefits from making their work open, and the hosting institution receives international visibility. A repository can be a DIY publishing platform. Learn how Gettysburg College got started and hear about the wide range of materials that are being shared. Gettysburg’s repository, The Cupola, currently includes over 5,000 works that have been downloaded 420,000 times... and counting.

Archives In Action: What Kind Of Animal Is It?, Frederic W. Murray, Phillip Joe Fitzsimmons

Faculty Articles & Research

Archives in Action: What Kind of Animal is It

The opportunities to strengthen our relevance and center our value to our campus communities has never been stronger. The rise of digital publishing and scholarly communication as issues in academic librarianship and university life are both lively and multifaceted. There are many faculty and students on our campuses who are publishing in the digital environment, either through the mechanisms of traditional peer-reviewed journals, web publication, and even paper and ink. These university publications, until recently, have existed in most part as fragmented and disconnected coalitions, but with the rise of digital …

What Would Happen If You Ditched Your Textbook? Gettysburg Faculty Share Strategies, Ian R. Clarke, Sharon K. Birch, Charles W. Kann, Janelle L. Wertzberger

Open Access Week at Gettysburg College

How much do your course materials really cost? Do your students obtain all the books you assign? How much does access to required readings affect student success? What would happen if you ditched your textbook?

If you’ve ever been tempted to toss your conventional reading list out the window and start over, this session is for you. Learn how colleagues are swapping out expensive course materials for more affordable options, including freely available materials, library-licensed items, and original creations. Our panelists are:

• Ian Clarke – Ian recently abandoned his $150 textbook for ENG 111 (Writing through Literature) and created an …

Researchgate, Copyright, And You, Andrée Rathemacher, Julia Lovett, Amanda Izenstark

Technical Services Faculty Presentations

Slides from a presentation, "ResearchGate, Copyright, and You," offered at the University of Rhode Island Libraries on November 4 and November 15, 2016.

"ResearchGate, Academia.edu, and other websites make it easy to share your scholarly content, but is sharing on these sites safe to do? Learn about the implications of posting your research online, and find out how you can do so to have the most impact."

Part of the University Libraries' Search Savvy Seminar series.

Winning Friends And Influencing People: Oer And Higher Education Affordability, Marilyn K. Moody

Library Faculty and Staff Publications and Presentations

Higher Education stakeholders, including students, parents, faculty, administrators, legislators, state higher education boards, trustees, alumni, and donors are all concerned about the high cost of education and its impact on students. Positioning OER within the broader context of college affordability creates interest in the creation and use of OER, as well as powerful allies for OER initiatives. Approaches and examples of how to communicate OER value for affordability efforts and influence these varied stakeholders will be included in this presentation. Portland State University and its use of OER and the creation of open textbooks in the context of university initiatives …

Beyond The Matrix: Repository Services For Qualitative Data, Sebastian Karcher, Dessi Kirilova, Nic Weber

Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs

The Qualitative Data Repository (QDR) provides infrastructure and guidance for the sharing and reuse of digital data used in qualitative and multi-method social inquiry. In this paper we describe some of the repository’s early experiences providing services developed specifically for the curation of qualitative research data. We focus on QDR’s efforts to address two key challenges for qualitative data sharing. The first challenge concerns constraints on data sharing in order to protect human participants and their identities and to comply with copyright laws. The second set of challenges addresses the unique characteristics of qualitative data and their relationship to the …

Scholars' Mine Quick Facts November 2016, James Roger Weaver

Scholars’ Mine Statistics

Scholars' Mine statistical quick facts for November 2016.

The Sky’S The Limit: Scholarly Communication, Digital Initiatives, Institutional Repositories, And Subject Librarians, Lee Dotson, Richard Harrison, Sarah A. Norris, Barbara Tierney

Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

A panel presentation presented at the 2016 Charleston Conference in Charleston, South Carolina.

The University of Central Florida's institutional repository, STARS (Showcase of Text, Archives, Research & Scholarship), has presented new opportunities for collaboration amongst the Libraries' Office of Scholarly Communication, Digital Initiatives, Research Services, and Subject Librarians. Building on efforts to proactively promote scholarly communication initiatives to the university community, these four units have used the institutional repository as a foundation for collaboration, outreach, marketing and educational efforts. This presentation will give an overview of STARS and highlight the role the IR has in increasing the collaborative efforts of …

Keeping Up With… Open Peer Review, Emily Ford

Library Faculty and Staff Publications and Presentations

Open Peer Review is a current and developing practice in scholarly publishing that librarians need to continue to explore and discuss. To that end ACRL should continue to support experiments with and conversations about OPR in its publications. As academic librarians, we observe and engage with new practices in scholarly communication, and OPR should be no exception. Whether academic librarianship embraces OPR as a model of peer review for its publications, or we simply observe experiments in other disciplines, we can position ourselves to better support our patrons and our publishing ventures by examining OPR.