Browsing by Subject "Faculty Attitudes"

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    Author’s Rights to Share Scholarship: A Survey of Faculty Attitudes and Actions
    (Indiana Library Federation Annual Conference, 2014-11-19) Odell, Jere D.; Dill, Emily; Palmer, Kristi L.
    Online, full text archiving is a key component of being a self-advocate for building a scholarly reputation. Posting a version of a published article in an open access repository increases an author's citation rate. To explore attitudes and actions related to self-archiving a survey of IUPUI faculty was conducted and the results compared to similar surveys conducted at University of California and University of Toronto. The results are useful in guiding education and outreach efforts at university libraries interested in promoting change in scholarly communication, open access, and institutional repositories.
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    Faculty Attitudes toward Open Access and Scholarly Communications: Disciplinary Differences on an Urban and Health Science Campus
    (2017-11-07) Odell, Jere D.; Palmer, Kristi L.; Dill, Emily; University Library
    The Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication seeks to share useful innovations, both in thought and in practice, with the aim of encouraging scholarly exchange and the subsequent benefits that are borne of scrutiny, experimentation and debate. As modes of scholarly communication, the technologies and economics of publishing and the roles of libraries evolve, it is our hope that the work shared in the journal will inform practices that strengthen librarianship and that increase access to the "common Stock of Knowledge."JLSC is particularly interested in the intersection of librarianship and publishing and the resulting role of libraries in both content dissemination and content creation. Related areas of interest include new methods for the dissemination of information and information exchange; the theory and practice of the organization, use and curation of information; and issues related to the review, credentialing, reputation and impact of scholarly work.
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    Fifty Years of How and Why Faculty Teach
    (American Dental Education Association, 2022-03-20) Stone, Sean M.
    In 1963, the House of Delegates of the American Association of Dental Schools recommended that all dental schools constitute a committee on teaching. That same year, the Dean appointed a committee on teaching for the Indiana University School of Dentistry to develop educational programs for faculty. In spring of 1964, one of their first acts was to evaluate “the attitude of our faculty on many of our teaching problems” with a survey. In fall of 1965, the teaching committee put on it’s first annual Teaching Conference for faculty, an event that is still held today, and presented highlights of the survey. In fall of 2021, a slightly updated version of the 1964 Faculty Attitudes Toward Teaching survey was given to faculty. This poster presents highlights comparing 1964 and 2021 responses.
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    Open access policies: a survey of IUPUI faculty attitudes
    (IUPUI, 2014-03-28) Odell, Jere D.; Dill, Emily; Palmer, Kristi L.
    In the Fall semester of 2013 we conducted a campus-wide survey of IUPUI faculty attitudes toward changes in scholarly communications. Here we report preliminary results pertaining to open access repositories, policies and mandates. These results are compared to earlier versions of the same survey conducted in 2006 at the University of California and in 2010 at the University of Toronto. On the IUPUI campus most faculty respondents (55%) were unaware of the institutional repository, IUPUIScholarWorks. Likewise, the majority (72%) were unfamiliar with institutional open access policies such as those at Harvard, MIT, Duke and Kansas. When asked, however, if IUPUI should consider implementing a similar policy, 52% were unsure, 39% were supportive and only 9% disagreed. With increased outreach and information on the topic, we believe that IUPUI faculty would be willing to consider a campus-wide, opt-out open access policy.
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    Scholarly Communications: Are the Health and Life Sciences Pulling the Train or Slowing It Down?
    (Midwest Chapter, Medical Library Association, 2014-10-12) Odell, Jere D.; Dill, Emily; Palmer, Kristi L.
    One could make the case that recent changes in scholarly communications (including publishing, sharing and peer review) have been driven in large part by the health and life sciences. For example, the adoption of the NIH Public Access Policy (2008) and the launch of Public Library of Science (2003) have done much to move the exchange of scholarship beyond the subscription-only model. One might assume that scholars publishing in the health sciences would be more familiar and more accepting of these relatively new approaches to dissemination. To test this assumption and to explore other attitudes and actions related to open access publishing, self-archiving and peer review, we conducted a faculty survey on the IUPUI campus (including the Schools of Medicine, Dentistry, Nursing and Public Health). In this paper presentation we report on disciplinary differences in attitudes toward scholarly communications. In addition, our results are compared to similar surveys conducted at University of California (2006) and University of Toronto (2010). The results may be used in guiding education and outreach efforts at academic libraries with an interest in scholarly communication, open access and public access services.
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    Will IU Faculty Adopt an Open Access Policy?
    (IU Librarian's Day, 2014-06-06) Odell, Jere D.
    Faculty at a growing number of colleges and universities have adopted open access policies. Most of these policies follow the Harvard "opt out" model, including, Duke, Kansas, MIT, Georgia Tech, University of California and many others. Working with an opt out open access policy, faculty give universities permission to upload scholarly articles to institutional repositories such as IUPUI ScholarWorks. If an author wants to publish in a journal that refuses to support compliance with the policy, or if the author has other objections to sharing the manuscript, the author may send a notification to the university indicating that they wish to opt out. These policies show the faculty's commitment to sharing knowledge while also maximizing exposure to an author's scholarship. At IUPUI, the library faculty adopted a similar policy in 2009, the "IUPUI Library Faculty Deposit Mandate." IUPUI is also a member of the Coalition of Open Access Policy Institutions (COAPI). Recently IUPUI faculty have begun to consider a full, campus-wide open access policy. A Faculty Council committee has drafted a policy and the initial stages of outreach and deliberation have begun. This session will report on the progress of the draft IUPUI Open Access Policy, faculty attitudes regarding open access policies, and approaches to library-supported policy implementation.