Longitudinal characteristics of bepress Digital Commons R1 and R2 institutional repositories
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Introduction: This study presents longitudinal findings on the size, usage, and other characteristics of institutional repositories of Carnegie R1 and R2 institutions using the Digital Commons bepress (bepress) platform. Methods: In 2017, 2019, 2021, and 2023, a subset of bepress repositories...
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Repository (R)evolution: Metadata, Interoperability, and Sustainability
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Introduction: Successfully managing an open-access repository requires constant attention to user community priorities in order to inform the development or selection of a platform that fulfills constantly evolving functional demands in an increasingly complex operational environment. This paper...
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Data Ethics in Library Learning Analytics
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Introduction: This study examines data handling and data ethics in library learning analytics research projects involving the use of data about students as library patrons, alongside a baseline evaluation of the benefits of library learning analytics to libraries practicing it. Methods:...
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A brief review of Cromwell, J. C. (Ed.) (2023). Rethinking institutional repositories: Innovations in management, collections, and inclusion. Association of College and Research Libraries. 256 pages. ISBN: 9798892555432. $70.00. https://bit.ly/IRs
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Introduction: Universities implement faculty profile systems for a variety of reasons, including to increase visibility of research produced at the institution. These profiles often connect with other campus systems, particularly institutional repositories. This article describes a collaboration...
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Introduction: This article explores faculty conceptions of academic publishers, their willingness to circumvent paywalls and share content, and their understanding of who holds the responsibility to pay for this body of scholarly work to which they all contribute. Methods: The authors conducted...
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This article presents a new tool developed to assess and increase the maturity level of a research community in terms of Open Research Data (ORD) practices and culture. This model, called the Maturity Continuum Model, is divided into four successive steps, starting from the awareness and...
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Introduction: Institutional open access policies (IOAPs) express an institutional commitment to making scholarly knowledge openly accessible, typically by asking academics to deposit their scholarship into an open access (OA) repository. Faculty, however, must prioritize other scholarly...
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JLSC Call for Applications: Reviews Editors and Editors-in-Chief
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The Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication currently has openings in two editorial tracks: Reviews Editor - deadline May 12, 2024 Editors-in-Chief (2 openings) - deadline May 12, 2024 Please note that the positions …
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To Open or Not to Open: An Exploration of Faculty Decisions to Publish Open-Access Articles
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Introduction: Faculty face numerous pressures as they decide whether to publish articles open access (OA). This pilot study investigated the extent to which School of Education faculty members’ engagement with OA was influenced by promotion and tenure (P&T) and how this influence...
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Call for Proposals for JLSC Special Issue: Open Access: Diverse Experiences and Expectations
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In 2014, the Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication brought together a group of researchers active in scholarly publishing to write about fundamental challenges and pitfalls associated with open-access (OA) models. That Special Issue, Bottlenecks in the Open-Access System: Voices...
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Introduction: This mixed-method study analyzes the self-archiving behaviors and underlying motivations of researchers at an institution very recently recategorized by the Carnegie Classification system from “Doctoral– High Research Activity (R2)” to “Doctoral–Very High Research Activity (R1).”...
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Introduction: This article highlights the importance of providing accessible scholarly publishing education and support to graduate students by presenting a case study of how the University of Louisville’s Publishing Academy was modified to be fully online and intentionally focused on diversity,...
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Introduction: Academic libraries are facing two trends: the rising cost of journal subscriptions—the ongoing ‘serials crisis’—and the increasing availability of scholarly journal articles through free, open access channels. Methods: This study analyzed the bibliographies from 116 research...
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Digital Scholarly Journals Are Poorly Preserved: A Study of 7 Million Articles
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Introduction: Digital preservation underpins the persistence of scholarly links and citations through the digital object identifier (DOI) system. We do not currently know, at scale, the extent to which articles assigned a DOI are adequately preserved. Methods: We construct a database of...
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INTRODUCTION This study analyzes the gender dynamics of the American Library Association’s SCHOLCOMM listserv in order to determine the accuracy of concerns expressed by participants in early 2016 regarding the dominance of male voices on the listserv. METHODS Utilizing the SCHOLCOMM listserv...
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A Critical Survey of Open-Access Policies in US Land Grants
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<b>Introduction:</b> Land-grant universities in the United States and the international open-access (OA) movement both purport to advance public access to knowledge and assert a public benefit to doing so. The objective of this study was to test the hypothesis that land-grant universities would...
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