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Item Adding The Chronicles of Oklahoma to the Gateway to Oklahoma History Digital Library(Texas Digital Library, 2021-05-24) Dobbs, KatherineItem Best Practices for Driving Adoption of Open Educational Resources (OER)(2017-05-24) Morrison, Ashley J.; University of Texas at AustinOver the course of a semester, I identified instructors at the University of Texas at Austin currently building or utilizing open educational resources (OER) as course materials. I interviewed those instructors to learn more about their use of OER and identified and documented best practices, which were distributed to subject librarians, to share with instructors in their departments. Outside of the interview process, I conducted research on the role that librarians in other higher education institutions have in driving adoption of OER. The ultimate objective of this initiative is to help drive adoption of OER and other open access materials at UT in the long term. In my poster session, I will share with attendees the strategy I used to get useful interviews from faculty members, key insights and recommendations from my conversations and research, and a link to a completed LibGuide aimed at instructors linking to available OER and tips. I expect that my presentation will be relevant to any academic librarian interested in digital scholarship, scholarly communications, or open access.Item Beyond Web-based Scholarly Works Repositories: The effect of institutional mandates on the faculty attitudes towards Institutional Repositories(2014-03-25) Tmava, Ahmet Meti; Alemneh, Daniel; University of North TexasIn the last decade there has been a push from academic institutions to encourage faculty to deposit their work in web-based scholarly work repositories, commonly known as institutional repositories (IR). IRs are responsible for collecting and preserving the intellectual works of faculty and students and making them widely available. In light of the ever-evolving landscape of higher education, IRs seek to move beyond the custodial role and actively contribute to the advancement of scholarly communication. Understanding and addressing the issues faced by IRs requires a multidimensional approach that involves all stakeholders including: individual scholars and researchers, academic institutions and librarians, scholarly and scientific society publishers, commercial publishers, and government institutions. However, most researcher (Kim, 2010) agree that the main players are faculty members that can make-or-break an IR. In spite of the fact that IRs are an innovation in scholarly communication they have been met with a resistance from faculty members. Academics have been slow to embrace the concept of IRs, according to recent studies by Primary Research Group (2014), only 5% of journal articles published by the faculty members of the organizations have been archived in the IR. While a range of factors seem to influence use of repositories by researchers there is still no agreement how to resolve the challenge of getting authors to deposit content. The most recent survey by Nicholas et al (2014) suggested that while the size and use of repositories has been relatively modest, almost half of all institutions either have, or are planning, a repository mandate requiring deposit. However, Crow (2002) warned that faculty submission will have to be voluntary or risk encountering resistance from faculty members who might otherwise prove supportive. The current situation of IRs is rather bleak and calls to question the effectiveness of the current ways of recruiting content, including institutional mandates. Nicholas et al argue that mandates vary based on the research community and/or institution. Their findings reveal that none of the participating institutions reported any attempt to force researchers to comply with the mandate and describe the current mandates as more educational rather than binding. The same study concludes that 22 percent of the researchers were directly influenced by mandate to deposit their work, and this varied based on the age. Thus, the hope remains that with the mandates in place the new generation of researchers will get used to the idea of depositing their work. This poster will revisit the content recruitment issues in general. Although there is an extensive body of relevant knowledge, discussions about IRs transformations, they are often based on opinion, and isolated experience of commentators, leaving out the main issue (i.e. institutional policies) and the main players (i.e. faculty). This paper will attempt to assess the effect of institutional mandates on the faculty attitudes towards IRs. We believe that analyzing and spotlighting the possible correlations between and among various factors are pertinent for understanding and shaping the ongoing transformation of IRs.Item Capstone Project Case Study: Texas Data Repository (TDR) Dataverse Integration with R(Texas Digital Library, 2021-05-24) Pechenina, Anna; Boehm, ReidItem The Denton Declaration: An Open Data Manifesto(2013-03-26) Keralis, Spencer; Stark, Shannon; University of North TexasOn May 22, 2012 at the University of North Texas, a group of technologists and librarians, scholars and researchers, university administrators, and other stakeholders gathered to discuss and articulate best practices and emerging trends in research data management. The resulting document, The Denton Declaration, bridges the converging interests of these interest groups and promotes collaboration, transparency, and accountability across organizational and disciplinary boundaries. This poster presentation will describe the process of developing the Declaration, crediting collaborators and participating institutions; will discuss why we chose the genre of the Manifesto (rather than a more traditional report), reproduce key principles of open data from the Declaration, illustrate the international network of cosigners that have championed the Declaration, and invite the TCDL community to join us in advocating these principles throughout the academy.Item Developing a Library Open Access Portal That Bypasses the Need for Authentication(2014-03-25) Herbert, Bruce; Potvin, Sarah; Ponsford, Bennett; Highsmith, Anne; Texas A&M UniversityTexas A&M University was established as Texas’ only land grant university through the First Morrill Act (1862), which sought to provide a broad segment of the population with a practical education that had direct relevance to their daily lives. Our impact on society was later expanded through the creation of the agricultural experiment stations and the Cooperative Extension Service, which disseminate the results of experiment station research to improve the state’s agricultural industry. The Sterling C. Evans Library at Texas A&M is building upon this history to help bring all of Texas A&M’s scholarly work to bear on many of society’s greatest challenges by promoting open access. We are working to identify and advance appropriate information systems, practices, and policies that improves societal access to the scholarly and creative work at Texas A&M. The Texas A&M University Libraries, has begun work to design a portal that bypasses the need for authentication and allows a user to search through a collection of open access materials. Working with Ex Libris, the vendor from which we license our Primo discovery layer, we have installed a separate instance of Primo aimed at aggregating open access materials and making them accessible to the public. This dedicated portal will draw materials identified as open access from the Primo Central Index, a “meta-aggregation of hundreds of millions of scholarly e-resources of global and regional importance,” including “journal articles, e-books, reviews, legal documents and more.” We are currently working to have OAK Trust open access items harvested into Primo Central and made available alongside harvests from other institutional repositories. In establishing this Portal to Open Access Resources, we will also work to identify materials that are legitimately open access (gratis) and that meet basic quality standards. This poster presentation will discuss the technical aspects and policy decisions made during the design and implementation phase of the project, and show how the portal supports a Texas A&M University – K12 School District reforming their science, technological, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education.Item Directions for Digital Repositories(2010-05-17) Carr, Leslie; University of SouthamptonThe Internet provided a platform for global digital communication; the Web added document browsing and repositories have added persistence and curation. What have we achieved with this multilayered platform in the last decade? And what scope have we for achieving new things? The newly emerging discipline of Web Science tells us that the Web isn't a thing but an activity: the creation of a network of information by a network of individuals. The Web wasn't invented by Tim Berners-Lee, it is being invented by all of us as we gradually adapt our tools and change our practice. In this presentation I will discuss some of the changes that have occurred in the UK and European experience, the changes that we have embodied in the EPrints repository platform, and some of our hopes for changes yet to occur.Item Elements of Successful Online Journal Publishing(2015-04-28) Wackerman, Dillon; Reynolds, Phil; Stephen F. Austin State UniversityAt the Center for Digital Scholarship (CDS) at Stephen F. Austin State University (SFASU), we have discovered that there are many complex details to launching a successful online journal-publishing program. In our lead role at SFASU, we have streamlined implementation to make this a relatively straightforward process for the journal managers and editors. Most of the journal editors with whom we currently work are experienced authors and reviewers, but they rely upon us to assist them with the design, implementation and editorial processes. Following this, we have found it beneficial to provide comprehensive and personalized customer support and training. Some of these complex details that need our active support include layout and design, management, training and the creation of policies and procedures. Through practical experience, the CDS has learned how to guide the process and decisions and take an active role in the success of the online journal-publishing program.Item Emerging Trends and Evolving Issues in Open Access and Scholarly Communications(2015-04-27) Alemneh, Daniel; Helge, Kris; Priyanto, Ida Fajar; Tmava, Ahmet Meti; University of North Texas; Tarrant County CollegeThe manner in which scholarly research is conducted is changing rapidly. As researchers continue to produce and share a wide variety of research outputs and scholarly contributions, in new ways, understanding of the factors influencing adoption, how they are being used, their implications for research practices and policy remains limited. This presentation will provide an overview of emerging trends in scholarly communication and the roles of diverse stakeholders ranging from individual researchers, scholars, and library and information professionals to institutions, publishers and professional societies. In light of the increasingly global Open Access movement and the evolving landscape of Scholarly Communication, the panelist will share their preliminary findings of their doctoral researches and further speculate the implication of open educational resources on copyrights, access, and preservation at global level.Item Held Captive by Copyright: Two Case Studies for Open Access(2015-04-27) Gushee, Elizabeth; Rushing, Amy; Harry Ransom Center; University of Texas at San Antonio; University of Texas at AustinThe Harry Ransom Center is among the nation’s finest research libraries; its extensive holdings of manuscript, text, and visual materials provide a unique record of the creative processes of thousands of writers and artists. In 2014, with the goal of promoting the use of its collections, the Center’s Digital Initiatives Working Group (DIAG) was tasked with developing an open access policy for its corpus of materials believed to be in the public domain. As part of their work, DIWG surveyed open access strategies across peer institutions, struggled to determine where to place the Center on the open access continuum, debated the effects of open access on the Center’s human and financial resources, and, ultimately, found the process of identifying archival materials as “public domain” far more slippery than originally expected. In the fall of 2014, UTSA Libraries Special Collections held a department retreat to define strategic priorities for the year, and to discuss one of the thorniest issues facing repositories today: the permission to publish. Following a lawsuit against the University of Arkansas Special Collections and the subsequent urging of intellectual property guru Peter Hirtle that “it is time for repositories to get out of the "permission to publish" game and leave permissions to the copyright owner,” UTSA Special Collections decided to do just that. What we thought would remove barriers to our collections, however, has caused unanticipated issues regarding privacy, copyright, orphan works, and maintaining good donor relations. Learn how two libraries within The University of Texas system has grappled with issues of open access, copyright, and restrictions related to the use of their materials.Item How Digital Libraries Can Create a Culture of Open Access on Campus(2013-03-21) Keralis, Spencer; Helge, Kris; Waugh, Laura; Stark, Shannon; Najmi, Anjum; University of North TexasAs Open Access has flourished into an International movement that is shaping the progressive landscape of scholarly communication, a growing number of institutions are implementing policy changes aimed at the higher institutional levels. Policy implementation, however, is only the one step in creating a culture of Open Access on a campus. Digital Libraries have led the movement by instituting Institutional Repositories for scholarly works and research data, but it has become increasingly evident that academic institutions must implement strategies for raising the awareness of Open Access and promoting the involvement of their academic scholars and students. It is no longer a question of whether or not to promote the open accessibility of these works among our academic community, but how best to do so. This roundtable discussion will offer ideas, strategies, and thoughtful conversations on how to equip a campus with the resources it needs to promote and assist researchers in adopting Open Access. This panel will feature faculty; a graduate student; scholarly communications, institutional repository, and strategic projects librarians to provide a balanced perspective of Open Access implementation at one Texas institution.Item Mapping the Southwest Project: Putting the Region’s Maps Online(2013-03-26) Alemneh, Daniel; Jones, Jerrell; Hartman, Cathy; Phillips, Mark; Hodges, Ann; Husman, Ben; University of North Texas; University of Texas at ArlingtonThe University of North Texas Libraries and its partner, the University of Texas at Arlington’s Special Collections, are working on a 3-year (2010 to 2013) collaborative “Mapping the Southwest” project, sponsored by a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) We the People grant. For this project we are digitizing 5,000 historically-significant maps and more than 80% are already processed and available online for free public access through The Portal to Texas History: http://texashistory.unt.edu/explore/collections/UTAM/browse/ All of the maps digitized for this grant meet the UNT metadata requirements, which means that all are Open Archive Initiative-Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) harvestable, and are interoperable or compliant with widely adopted standards (such as Dublin Core, MARC, MODS, and PREMIS). On the Portal, users can find materials using a basic search, an advanced search, or through multiple browse interfaces. Digital object display on the Portal has been optimized for indexing by Google and other search engines. Overall, 44% of all traffic to the Portal is referred from search engines such as Google, MSN, Yahoo, etc. To attract lay people to the good quality resources in our collections, we have also added extensive external links into our digital materials from Wikipedia, which has resulted in significant increases in usage of the collections. Among other digital libraries functionalities, when users find maps in the Portal, the maps manifest within a zoom feature that does not require any special downloads or software. The zooming software works with Flash Player, which is ubiquitous, reaching 99% of Internet users. The zooming feature allows users to see every detail of the map; grab and move the map with a click and pull mouse motion; or move the area of selection by dropping and dragging the selection area on the object icon. As we approach the project completion phase, this poster describes the lessons learned, and project impact not only in terms of showcasing the cartography of the region, but also in promoting best practices and advancing the capacity of academic libraries to reliably curate, preserve, and provide seamless access to such wide-format items to the diverse global user community.Item Modeling Tools to Ensure that Open Access Scholarly Publications are Publicly Useful: The Design and Impact of an OA Discovery Layer, Based at Texas A&M University Libraries(2016-05-25) Herbert, Bruce; McGeachin, Robert; Potvin, Sarah; Ponsford, Bennett Claire; Highsmith, Anne L.; Texas A&M UniversityThe Texas A&M University Libraries has developed and implemented a search portal (OAK Search) that bypasses the need for authentication and allows a user to search through a collection of open access materials. Working with Ex Libris, the vendor from which we licensed our Primo discovery layer, we installed a separate instance of Primo aimed at aggregating open access materials and making them accessible to the public. This dedicated portal drew from materials identified as open access from the Primo Central Index, a meta-aggregation of hundreds of millions of scholarly e-resources of global and regional importance, including journal articles, e-books, reviews, legal documents and more. We were also able to have OAK Trust open access items harvested into Primo Central and made available alongside harvests from other institutional repositories. In establishing this Portal to Open Access Resources, we identified materials that are legitimately open access (gratis) and that meet basic quality standards. OAK Search was used by a small school district, Roscoe ISD, to support their efforts to transform science and math education through project-based learning. Our 24x7 presentation will highlight the design of the open access search portal, our evaluation of the quality of the collection delivered to the students and teachers of Roscoe ISD, as well as their use of the portal. Finally, our discussion will highlight how this project lead us to conclude that making scholarly work available through open access is a necessary but incomplete step for this work to benefit most of society outside of academia.Item NIH Public Access Policy: What It Means for Authors and for Universities(2008-06-09) Furrh, Jamie L.; University of North TexasPart of the 2008 Consolidated Appropriations Act that Congress passed and President Bush signed includes a provision requiring the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to make its voluntary Public Access Policy mandatory. This is a landmark achievement, as it is the first Open Access initiative to be mandated by U.S. government. As with anything that is implemented for the first time, there are some questions and concerns regarding how this new law will work, and the pieces that need to be in place for it to be successful. This presentation will provide a description of what the current NIH Public Access Policy is(1); a brief history of the policy from 2004 to present day(2); discuss how the policy effects research authors and the institutions they work at; consider the six options on institutional compliance as presented by the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, Science Commons, and Association of Research Libraries White Paper(3); examine actions taken by other Universities regarding Open Access; explain the work currently underway by the University of North Texas Health Science Center to ensure compliance; and discuss the future of scholarly communication(4) as it relates to the ultimate goal of UNTHSC regarding Open Access and compliance with NIH policy. References: (1) Public Access Homepage, http://publicaccess.nih.gov/, Accessed 4/7/2008. (2) English, Ray and Joseph, Heather. The NIH mandate: An open access landmark; 69; http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlpubs/erlnews/backissues2008/february08/nihupdate.cfm. Accessed 4/7/2008. (3) Carroll, M. W. Complying with the national institutes of health public access policy: Copyright considerations and options. SPARC, Science Commons, ARL; February 2008; Accessed 4/7/2008. (4) Hahn, K. L., Talk about talking about new models of scholarly communication. JEP, Winter, 2008; 11, pp. 1-14, http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.3336451.0011.108.Item Open Access Engagement: A Look Inside University Repositories(Texas Digital Library, 2021-05-28) Vernon, EmilyItem Open Access Myth Busters(Texas Digital Library, 2014) Park, KristiItem Pushing the Boundaries of Open Access(2014-03-14) Alemneh, Daniel; Phillips, Mark; Kleister, Jill; University of North TexasThe Open Access (OA) movement has become increasingly important in shaping the ways that academic libraries provide services to support the creation, organization, management and use of digital contents. The University of North Texas (UNT) has embraced the open access movement and seeks to bring scholarship to the widest possible audience. Our usage statistics show that users from more than 200 countries around the world visit the UNT Digital Libraries’ diverse collections. Theses and dissertations represent a wealth of scholarly and artistic content created by masters and doctoral students in the degree-seeking process. The University of North Texas (UNT) was one of the first three American universities to require electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) for graduation, and by 1999 all theses and dissertations submitted by students in pursuit of advanced degrees were digital. We are intensely proud of the work of our students. Currently, more than 90% of UNT’s ETDs are freely accessible to the public via the UNT Digital Library, while less than10% have been restricted by their authors for use by the UNT community only. In light of supporting academic institutions initiative to advance digital scholarship for worldwide research, we started a new project contacting UNT alumni who restricted their ETDs in perpetuity. We contacted about 700 ETD authors, asking their permission to remove the restrictions from their theses or dissertations and make them openly available in the UNT Digital Library. This poster provides a preliminary analysis of the UNT‘s efforts to make students’ work accessible to a wider global audience.Item Reflecting on a year and a half of progress: ScholarWorks at UTRGV(Texas Digital Library, 2021-05-24) Flores, WilliamItem Session 2G | Putting our Money Where our Mouth Is: Creating and Managing an Open Access Publishing Fund(Texas Digital Library, 2021-05-25) Lyon, Colleen; Macicak, Susan; Nacca, EliseThe UT Austin Libraries (UTL) has prioritized engagement with and investment in open access (OA). We created a collection development fund dedicated to OA initiatives, and tasked a group of librarians from across UTL to help decide how those funds should be spent. In this presentation we’ll describe the formation of that group and our overall goals for the fund. We’ll share details about the rubric we use to evaluate OA initiatives, and how we publicize the OA options available to researchers. Finally, we’ll share some of the challenges we’ve faced as we continue to navigate this constantly changing environment.Item Session 3G | Institutional Commitments to Open Access in US Land Grants: A Policy Analysis(Texas Digital Library, 2021-05-26) Potvin, Sarah; Arant-Kaspar, WendiThe land grant mission to provide accessible public education parallels the values around open access. But relatively few land grants have passed open access policies. This study considers the intersection of open access policies and land grant institutions in the United States. It identifies formally adopted policies at the institutional level and analyzes both adopted policies and institutional types.