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Spotlights: Faculty, Alum, And Course, Teresa S. Welsh 2014 The University of Southern Mississippi

Spotlights: Faculty, Alum, And Course, Teresa S. Welsh

SLIS Connecting

Meet Instructor Edmand Pace of The School of Library and Information Science, and SLIS alum, Mantra Henderson, Director of the James Herbert White Library at Mississippi Valley State University. Discover how you can become an expert in Government Publications, Law Libraries, and Health Informatics.


Slis Update, Elizabeth Haynes 2014 University of Southern Mississippi

Slis Update, Elizabeth Haynes

SLIS Connecting

Updates and welcome from the Director of the School of Library and Information Science, Dr. Elizabeth Haynes.


Learning To Give A Hoot: Open Access Workflows For Academic Librarians (Oawal), Jill Emery 2014 Portland State University

Learning To Give A Hoot: Open Access Workflows For Academic Librarians (Oawal), Jill Emery

Library Faculty and Staff Publications and Presentations

Graham Stone and Jill Emery have been working to try to develop an outline of some of the best practices for managing open access workflow management in academic libraries. In March 2014, we went live with OAWAL (pronounced owl): a crowdsourced blog/wiki to develop some of these practices and learn what innovators and experts in the field of scholarly communications and open access management have been doing. Our project is international in scope and relies heavily on countries such as the UK where country mandates are driving the development of workflows and management tools. This presentation will focus on recent …


Discovering A Gold Mine Of U.S. Government Information: Exploring The Hathitrust Catalog And Its Rich Veins, Bert Chapman 2014 Purdue University

Discovering A Gold Mine Of U.S. Government Information: Exploring The Hathitrust Catalog And Its Rich Veins, Bert Chapman

Libraries Faculty and Staff Presentations

The Hathitrust Catalog provides researchers at member institutions with exponentially expanded access to historical U.S. Government information resources. This presentation describes how researchers can use this resource to conduct substantive research using government information resources on public policy issues such as Internal Revenue Service program problems, infectious diseases such as Ebola, and U.S. foreign relations with the former Soviet Union/Russian Federation.


Library Publishing Is Special: Selection And Eligibility In Library Publishing, Paul Royster 2014 University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Library Publishing Is Special: Selection And Eligibility In Library Publishing, Paul Royster

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Faculty Publications

Traditional publishing is based on ownership, commerce, paid exchanges, and scholarship as a commodity, while library activities are based on a service model of sharing resources and free exchange. I believe library publishing should be based on those values and should not duplicate or emulate traditional publishing. University presses have mixed views of library publishing, and libraries should not adopt those attitudes. Library publishers are not gatekeepers; their mission is dissemination. Libraries need to publish because traditional publishing suffers from high rejection rates, required surrender of intellectual property, long production schedules, high cost of products, and limited dissemination. Nebraska’s Zea …


Words Matter: Documents Of The Departed, Thomas Atwood 2014 University of Toledo

Words Matter: Documents Of The Departed, Thomas Atwood

Proceedings from the Document Academy

As families begin to experience the passing of loved ones from a ‘silent generation’, they will be forced to make decisions about the physical belongings of those who lived in a Depression Era mentality. Some of these choices will be easy, as one may possess little sentiment over a clock or a set of dishes. Other decisions will be trying, as these items will surely invoke conversations that make us reconsider the meaning of the words keep, want, need, and discard. This paper discusses the documents of Dr. Lloyd Mills (1927-2013), Professor Emeritus of English, at Kent State University. For …


Where Is The Evidence? Realising The Value Of Grey Literature For Public Policy & Practice, A Discussion Paper, Amanda Lawrence, John Houghton, Julian Thomas, Paul Weldon 2014 Swinburne Institute for Social Research

Where Is The Evidence? Realising The Value Of Grey Literature For Public Policy & Practice, A Discussion Paper, Amanda Lawrence, John Houghton, Julian Thomas, Paul Weldon

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The internet has profoundly changed how we produce, use and collect research and information for public policy and practice, with grey literature playing an increasingly important role. The authors argue that grey literature (i.e. material produced and published by organisations without recourse to the commercial or scholarly publishing industry) is a key part of the evidence produced and used for public policy and practice. Through surveys of users, producing organisations and collecting services a detailed picture is provided of the importance and economic value of grey literature. However, finding and accessing policy information is a time-consuming task made harder by …


Where Is The Evidence? Realising The Value Of Grey Literature For Public Policy And Practice, Amanda Lawrence, John Houghton, Julian Thomas, Paul R. Weldon 2014 Swinburne University of Technology

Where Is The Evidence? Realising The Value Of Grey Literature For Public Policy And Practice, Amanda Lawrence, John Houghton, Julian Thomas, Paul R. Weldon

Higher education research

The internet has profoundly changed how we produce, use and collect research and information for public policy and practice, with grey literature playing an increasingly important role. The authors argue that grey literature (i.e. materials produced and published by organisations without recourse to the commercial or scholarly publishing industry) is a key part of the evidence produced and used for public policy and practice. Through surveys of users, producing organisations and collecting services, a detailed picture is provided of the importance and economic value of grey literature. However, finding and accessing policy information is a time-consuming task made harder by …


Leveraging Bibliographic Rdf Data For Keyword Prediction With Association Rule Mining (Arm), Nidhi Kushwaha, O P. Vyas 2014 Indian Institute of Information Technology

Leveraging Bibliographic Rdf Data For Keyword Prediction With Association Rule Mining (Arm), Nidhi Kushwaha, O P. Vyas

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The Semantic Web ( Web 3.03.0) has been proposed as an efficient way to access the increasingly large amounts of data on the internet. The Linked Open Data Cloud project at present is the major effort to implement the concepts of the Seamtic Web, addressing the problems of in homogeneity and large data volumes. RKBExplorer is one of many repositories implementing Open Data and contains considerable bibliographic information. Th is paper discusses bibliographic data data, an important part of cloud data. Effective searching of bibliographic datasets can be a challenge as many of the papers residing in these databases do …


Library Olympics: The Power Of Friendly Competition, Matthew Shreffler, Amanda Black 2014 University of Dayton

Library Olympics: The Power Of Friendly Competition, Matthew Shreffler, Amanda Black

Roesch Library Staff Presentations

Celebrate summer, sports and shelving! The annual library Olympics tests multiple skills while building some friendly competition among student workers. From call-number reading to the dumpster shoot-out, there is something for everyone in the race for the gold. Engage students and have fun! #LibraryOlympics


Coming Together: Successful Press, Library, Vendor Content Collaboration: A Case Study, Mary Beth Thomson 2014 University of Kentucky

Coming Together: Successful Press, Library, Vendor Content Collaboration: A Case Study, Mary Beth Thomson

Library Presentations

University presses (UP's) are essential to the advancement of our culture and the understanding of our world, and, are just as much at the forefront of publishing innovation as anyone. UP's publish and engage in some of the most essential research across the humanities, sciences and arts, and, also dive in to top-of-mind trending topics. Academic libraries are prized hubs of information, supporting a school's curriculum and the research of its university faculty and students - the foundation of content. In an effort to strengthen its relationship with its host institution library and help promote scholarship, the University Press of …


Data Narratives: Increasing Scholarly Value, Line C. Pouchard, Amy Barton, Lisa Zilinski 2014 Purdue University

Data Narratives: Increasing Scholarly Value, Line C. Pouchard, Amy Barton, Lisa Zilinski

Libraries Faculty and Staff Scholarship and Research

Data narratives or data stories have emerged as a new form of the scholarly communication focused on data. In this paper, we explore the potential value of data narratives and the requirements for data stories to enhance scholarly communication. We examine three types of data stories that form a continuum from the less to the more structured: the DataONE data stories, the Data Curation Profiles, and the Data Descriptors from the journal Scientific Data. We take the position that these data stories will increase the value of scholarly communication if they are linked to the datasets and to the publications …


Preservation Policies Of The Purdue University Research Repository (Purr), Lisa Zilinski 2014 Purdue University

Preservation Policies Of The Purdue University Research Repository (Purr), Lisa Zilinski

Libraries Faculty and Staff Presentations

Linking publications to published datasets in repositories is an important part of the research lifecycle. However, merely linking them does not ensure reusability. It is important for repositories to develop and provide policies for preservation that support the reusability, including lifecycle, ownership, versioning, and attribution aspects of the scholarly process (Bechhofer et al., 2013). In 2103, the Purdue University Libraries developed and implemented a workflow between its institutional repository, its e-Pubs system and its research data repository, Purdue University Research Repository or PURR (Zilinski et al., forthcoming), as well as journal articles linked to published datasets in PURR. This workflow …


Librarians Going Mobile: Applying “Threshold Concepts” To The Design Of E-Booklets For Library Instruction., Lorna M. Dawes 2014 University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Librarians Going Mobile: Applying “Threshold Concepts” To The Design Of E-Booklets For Library Instruction., Lorna M. Dawes

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Faculty Publications

Assuming that students no longer read printed handouts, many librarians have stopped producing printed handouts after observing the piles of paper that remain after library sessions. Libraries have transitioned comfortably to providing online access to handout information via subject and course guides, and now need to make a more complete transition to making them mobile. Although only four in ten college students own a tablet, 75% own a smart phone, and over a third of students intend to purchase either a tablet or a smart phone in the next six months. (“Pearson Student Mobile” 7). Librarians are all aware that …


Nsuworks, Nova Southeastern University 2014 Nova Southeastern University

Nsuworks, Nova Southeastern University

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

A trifold brochure for faculty of Nova Southeastern University on the benefits of participating in the institutional repository, NSUWorks


United States Department Of Agriculture (Usda) Response To The Office Of Science And Technology Policy Memo, 2013: Public Access Plan (November 2014), 2014 University of Nebraska - Lincoln

United States Department Of Agriculture (Usda) Response To The Office Of Science And Technology Policy Memo, 2013: Public Access Plan (November 2014)

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USDA response to OSTP memo, 2013: Public Access Plan (November 2014)


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

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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

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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.


Get Published In An Academic Journal - And Then Let Everyone Else Know, Susan Berkman, Michele Gibney 2014 Nova Southeastern University

Get Published In An Academic Journal - And Then Let Everyone Else Know, Susan Berkman, Michele Gibney

Library Academic Fest for Faculty

Hear how you can find opportunities to publish your research in academic journals using Cabell’s. Learn more about NSUWorks, an open access Institutional Repository that brings all of our faculty’s, students’ and staff’s research publications together and expands the reach of your scholarly communications.


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