Survey: Faculty Views on Open Access and Digital Repositories

November 19, 2009 – 11:55 am

Primary Research Group has published The Survey of Higher Education Faculty: Use of Digital Repositories and Views on Open Access, ISBN 1-57440-137-8.

The Survey of Higher Education Faculty: Use of Digital Repositories and Views on Open Access (ISBN 1-57440-137-8) presents data on how higher education faculty in the United States and Canada view the growing digital repository/open access movement. The report helps to answer questions such as: Who cooperates with requests from librarians and who does not? Who gives their articles to repositories? Who among faculty sympathizes with the aims of open access? How many scholars have had a publication fee paid for them by their library or academic department?

The report presents the results of a survey of more than 550 higher education faculty in the United States and Canada. Data is presented in the aggregate and for 12 criteria including academic field, size of college, type of college, academic title and other factors.

Just a few of the report’s many findings are that:

* 13% of the faculty in the sample had ever used a college’s institutional digital repository for scholarly research purposes.

* Use was greatest by faculty at specialized colleges, of whom 40% had used a digital repository at some time for research purposes

* About 28% said that they sympathize and try to help out by providing open access to their research materials as much as they possibly can.

* Although the tenured are less likely than the untenured to have heard of digital repositories, they are roughly twice as likely to have actually contributed an article to one of them.

* 74.62% of the faculty of the sample understood the meaning of the term ‘open access’. Individuals on the left wing of the political spectrum were more likely than those on the right wing to understand this term.

* Older faculty were more likely than younger faculty to be mystified by open access and digital repositories. Almost 43% of faculty between the ages of 50 and 59 did not know what digital repositories or open access really were.

For further information view our website at www.PrimaryResearch.com

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OCLC Nextspace, no. 13, 2009

November 19, 2009 – 11:53 am

nbsp;http://www.oclc.org/nextspace/013/downlo…

contents include

The Ripple Effect – extending the library’s reach

Web scale for libraries: a sea change for the 21st century
The first cooperative management service for libraries is an unparalleled effort guided by members

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Article-Level Metrics and the Evolution of Scientific Impact

November 19, 2009 – 9:16 am

nbsp;http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info:…

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A Longitudinal Assessment of Graduate Student Research Behavior and the Impact of Attending a Library Literature Review Workshop

November 19, 2009 – 8:50 am

nbsp;http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/p…

This article discusses findings from a longitudinal research study that examined the way graduate students carry out the literature review and how they were impacted by attending a library literature review workshop. The literature review research process serves as an important gateway for graduate students’ into their scholarly communities’ practices, and can be a logical place for librarians to offer assistance. This study was carried out to gain insights into the ways librarians can better meet graduate students’ needs in order to shape the services offered to graduate students. Findings reveal a lack of a single path through the literature review research process, but do indicate that attending a literature review workshop can have long-term benefits.

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Shakespeare Quartos Archive

November 18, 2009 – 1:53 pm

nbsp;http://www.quartos.org/

For the first time, digitized copies of rare early editions of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet have been compiled into a single online collection. The Shakespeare Quartos Archive  www.quartos.org) makes digitized versions of the play drawn from libraries in the US and the UK freely available to researchers worldwide.

source: DigitalKoans

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AoB PLANTS

November 18, 2009 – 1:42 pm

nbsp;http://aobpla.oxfordjournals.org/

Publisher: Oxford Journals on behalf of the Annals of Botany Company

AoB PLANTS is an online, internationally peer reviewed open access journal publishing high quality papers on most aspects of plant biology.

AoB PLANTS welcomes submissions on all aspects of plant biology including palaeobotany. Coverage extends to micro-organisms and animals where their impact on plants is central. Papers can range from the sub-cellular to the community and embrace cells, tissues, organs, whole organisms, populations and ecosystems.

Papers taking theoretical, mathematical, technical or historical approaches are welcome as are those relevant to information management and to conservation, agriculture and horticulture where they include a strong element of more basic plant science. The Journal caters for both specialised and interdisciplinary interests.

Online ISSN 2041-2851

Manuscript submission via online system.

Editor-in-Chief:

Mike Jackson
School of Biological Sciences
University of Bristol
Woodland Road
Bristol BS8 1UG, UK

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New Open Textbook Catalog

November 18, 2009 – 1:39 pm

nbsp;http://oerconsortium.org/2009/11/15/new-…

The Student PIRGs recently launched their new Open Textbook Catalog to help faculty find high quality open textbooks.

Open textbooks listed by subject:

Accounting
Business
Computer Science
Earth Science
Economics
Mathematics
Physics

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New Web Site Makes Internet Time Traveling Easier

November 18, 2009 – 1:33 pm

nbsp;http://chronicle.com/blogPost/New-Web-Si…

Time traveling is coming to an Internet browser near you.

A new Web site called Memento Web will allow anyone curious about what the Internet used to look like to plug in a date and then browse the World Wide Web as it was on that day.

The site is already live with limited use. ….

source: Chronicle of Higher Education

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Proceedings of the 155th ARL Membership Meeting

November 18, 2009 – 1:26 pm

nbsp;http://www.arl.org/resources/pubs/mmproc…

contents:
New Models for the Federal Depository Library Program; Roger Schonfeld, Manager of Research, Ithaka S+R

Documents for a Digital Democracy: A Model for the Federal Depository Library Program in the 21st Century, Interim Summary by Ithaka S+R

A Scientist’s View of Open Access; Bernard Schutz, Director, Max PlanCK Institute for Gravitational Physics, Potsdam, Germany

A River Runs Through It; Sayeed Choudhury, Associate Dean, Library Digital Programs, Hodson Director, Digital Research and Curation Center, Johns Hopkins University

Leading from the Middle: Open Access at KU; Lorraine J. Haricombe, Dean, University of Kansas Libraries

Why Are Special Collections so Important? Exploring the Value Proposition of Special Collections

Building on Our Strengths: Opportunities for Special Collections in the Digital Age

Keynote Remarks: An Age of Discovery: Distinctive Collections in the Digital Age; G. Wayne Clough, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution

Library Options for Publishing Support

Notes on ARL E-Science Working Group Survey

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E-Science Survey Preliminary Results and Resources Released

November 18, 2009 – 1:21 pm

Washington, DC–The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) E-Science Working Group surveyed ARL member libraries in the fall of 2009 to gather data on the state of engagement with e-science issues. An overview of initial survey findings was presented by E-Science Working Group Chair Wendy Lougee, University Librarian, McKnight Presidential Professor, University of Minnesota Libraries, at the October ARL Membership Meeting. Lougee’s briefing explored contrasting approaches among research institutions, particularly in regard to data management. The briefing also summarized survey findings on topics such as library services, organizational structures, staffing patterns and staff development, and involvement in research grants, along with perspectives on pressure points for service development. To better explicate the findings, Lougee reviewed specific cases of activities at six research institutions.

Audio of the briefing along with slides and a handout are available as part of the Proceedings of the 155th ARL Membership Meeting (see http://www.arl.org/resources/pubs/mmproc…).

ARL has also compiled a set of resources provided by survey respondents. Examples of a range of campus and library documents, tools advancing e-science support, needs assessments, and position descriptions, among other items, are listed on ARL’s Web site at http://www.arl.org/rtl/eresearch/escien/….

A full report of the survey findings is being prepared and will be published in 2010 by ARL through its Occasional Papers series.

source: ARL

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