Browsing by Author "Polley, David E."

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    Bob White: Open Access and the Center for Digital Scholarship
    (2015-09-17) White, Robert W.; Polley, David E.; Center for Digital Scholarship
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    Chronicling Hoosier
    (2016-06-15) Palmer, Kristi L.; Polley, David E.; Pollock, Caitlin M.J.
    To use this archived version of a live website, download the zipped folder, unzip the folder, and then open the file named "index.html" This digital project was designed to work optimally in Google Chrome.
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    Chronicling Hoosier: Tracing Home in Historic Newspapers
    (2016-11-12) Palmer, Kristi L.; Polley, David E.; Pollock, Caitlin M.J.
    As part of the Indianapolis Spirit and Place Festival 2016, Chronicling Hoosier will provide avid “Hoosier” hunters, burgeoning genealogists, and the just plain curious equal delight in discovering the power of digital historic newspapers. Big data from historic sources transforms into compelling visualizations that provide new insights into our State’s long-fascination with the origin of the word Hoosier. Focusing on newspapers dating back to 1836, tactics will be taught that every Hoosier can use to search free, digital newspapers from the comfort of their own homes, embarking on their own discoveries of self, family, and community.
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    Completing the Circle: Open Access to Translational Research and Scholarly Works
    (CUMU, 2023-09-18) Viehweg, Stephan; Odell, Jere D.; Polley, David E.; McLucas, Nouri
    IUPUI’s Center for Translating Research Into Practice (TRIP) and IUPUI University Library (Library) developed a partnership to enhance community access to faculty scholarship resulting from community-engaged and translational research. Library staff archive the scholarship of faculty affiliated with TRIP in IUPUI ScholarWorks, the campus’s open access institutional repository. The TRIP Scholarly Works Program was launched in 2013 and outcomes include benefits for faculty authors (increased readership) and for a world of readers (free access). After almost 10 years in existence, Library and TRIP staff sought to evaluate the success of this program. A survey was distributed to TRIP affiliated faculty to assess the impact of open access to their scholarship on their work as community-engaged and translational scholars. Faculty participants report a variety of benefits and yet, also indicate a need for increased program communication and fewer barriers to participation.
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    Developing incentives for data stewardship and sharing: Library engagement beyond liaison relationships
    (2014-06-05) Coates, Heather L.; Polley, David E.
    Many of the obstacles slowing the adoption of more democratic dissemination of scholarly products are cultural, not technological. While libraries have extended their technological capacity to new methods of dissemination, we have been less proactive in fostering the cultural change necessary for significant adoption. Two particular groups of constituents and communities of practice have been engaged with the library profession, but the personal contact between faculty and librarians at the institutional level is inconsistent and often hinges upon liaison relationships. This poster will describe opportunities for librarians to engage with institutional units and research communities extending beyond institutional boundaries to advance incentives rewarding new forms of dissemination, including data as a valued community resource. Examples of relating changes in dissemination to various community missions will be provided.
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    How Library Publishing Programs Can Support Journals Leaving a Major Publisher in Favor of OA
    (2016-05-18) Polley, David E.
    Recent events in scholarly publishing, such as the editorial board of Elsevier’s Lingua resigning en masse, have sparked the interest of other journal editors in searching for more open and sustainable models of publishing. This presentation provides an overview of IUPUI University Library's open access journal publishing program and its experience helping two journals transition from a subscription-based model to an open access one. In many ways, leaving a for-profit publisher looks similar to starting a new journal, but 'flipping' presents unique challenges, such as cessation of editor compensation, and unique opportunities, such as the potential for a journal buyback. This presentation also outlines the steps involved in leaving a for-profit publisher to create an open access journal, how editors can leverage existing infrastructure and social networks to successfully make the transition, guidance for library publishing programs working with journals making the change, and thoughts on which types of journals are ideal candidates.
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    Increasing Visibility of Research in IUPUI ScholarWorks through NCBI LinkOut
    (Medical Library Association, 2019-05-05) Foster, Erin D.; Polley, David E.; Anne, H. Varsha; Odell, Jere D.
    Background : To increase the visibility and access to an academic university’s institutional repository content by participating in the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) “Institutional Repository LinkOut” program. Description : The authors used R, an open source programming language, and an R package called ‘rentrez’ to a) identify those articles in the university's repository that were in PubMed and b) determine of those, which ones did not already have full-text available via PubMed Central. Identifying articles in PubMed that are not in PubMed Central is required by NCBI in order to participate in the “Institutional Repository LinkOut” program. Using the R package, a set of 4,400 open access items from the repository were processed, 557 eligible records were identified, and were sent to NCBI. In June 2018, the R scripts were revised to further streamline the process--at the beginning of July 2018 a total of 2,129 repository items were processed and 434 eligible records were identified for inclusion in the LinkOut program. Conclusion : The university’s institutional repository experienced a significant increase in visibility due to its participation in the NCBI’s “Institutional Repository LinkOut” program. In its first implementation (July 2017), this automated solution was estimated to save over 30 hours of manual work on the part of the library staff. The LinkOut program has resulted in a 9% annual increase in web traffic to the repository and PubMed is now the third most frequent referral site to the repository. The R script and implementation process are publicly available, via GitHub, to help other institutions reduce the barriers for participating in the LinkOut program.
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    Journal flipping: A case study from Metropolitan Universities
    (2016-04-08) Polley, David E.; Odell, Jere D.; Pollock, Caitlin M.J.; Proctor, Anna
    Recent events in scholarly publishing, such as the editorial board of Elsevier’s Lingua resigning en masse, shed light on the dilemma faced by many journal editors: balancing a desire to increase impact with promoting open and sustainable models for publishing. These two goals are not mutually exclusive. Recently, editors and publishers are seeing success in reconciling these goals by converting subscription-based journals to open-access, through a process commonly called journal flipping. The IUPUI University Library has a history of supporting the publication of open-access scholarly journals through its Open Access Journals at IUPUI program (http://journals.iupui.edu/). A number of titles, most notably Advances in Social Work and Metropolitan Universities, began as subscription-based journals that were only available in print. This poster presents the process for "flipping" Metropolitan Universities, digitizing the full run of issues and making them openly available via IUPUI’s instance of Open Journal Systems.
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    A Method for Verifying Indicators of Journal Quality
    (2018-10-26) Odell, Jere D.; Polley, David E.
    A recent search of the UlrichsWeb Global Serials Directory for active, digital, peer reviewed, scholarly journals shows that world’s academic articles are published in more than 58,500 journals. By one estimate the growth of new journal titles increases by 2.5% ever year (Ware & Mabe, 2015). At the same time, universities are adopting researcher information systems that provide administrators and other campus stakeholders with nearly complete bibliographic data for all articles published by their faculty authors. As campus leaders work to make sense of this data, they may turn to their library for help. Questions may include: Are all of these new or previously unencountered journal titles legitimate? Who are the main publishers of our articles? What are the emerging trends that promotion and tenure committees should consider? The most common way to address these questions involves significant shortcomings--proprietary subscription databases, like Scopus, Web of Science, and Academic Analytics, have limited coverage of the journal literature and, by design, are unlikely to include newer and lesser known journal titles. At the same time many universities publish thousands of articles per year, manually checking each article submitted to a faculty annual review database would prove to be a tedious and lengthy process. To reduce the labor involved in identifying indicators of journal quality, we have developed a method using open source software and open Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). In specific, our method reduces the labor in identifying the publishers for a long list of journals and in identifying the access model for these journals (subscription-only or open access). To do this we wrote an R script that uses the SHERPA RoMEO and the DOAJ APIs. Using this method permitted us to quickly identify the journals that needed closer inspection. This method will help others that are working to verify journal quality in large data sets without relying on problematic, journal blacklists.
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    Metropolitan Universities: Building an Online, Open Access Archive
    (2015-10-11) Odell, Jere D.; Polley, David E.; Pollock, Caitlin M.J.; Proctor, Anna; Sullivan, Michayla
    Metropolitan Universities (MUJ) provides peer-reviewed publishing on topics in higher education, including distributed learning, K-16 collaborations, assessment, service learning, campus-community partnerships and other subjects. In 2015 MUJ published its 25th volume. Beginning in the year 2000 (volume 11), MUJ has been published as a print journal with editorial offices at IUPUI. To celebrate more than of 25 years of successful publishing and to introduce new modes of dissemination, MUJ has developed an open access, online archive of its entire publication run. Here we describe the process of digitizing, indexing and building the MUJ archive.