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Item 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.Item The Changing Landscape of Scholarly Publishing: Will Radiation Research Survive?(Radiation Research Society, 2013-10) Odell, Jere D.; Whipple, Elizabeth C.As a society published journal, Radiation Research has been a successful and enduring project of the Radiation Research Society (RRS). In 59 years of publication, the journal has produced 732 issues and 10,712 articles. As a nonprofit organization, RRS, like most societies, has used revenues from subscriptions to support, in part, the life of the organization (meetings, conferences and grants to new scholars). The model for scientific publishing, however, continues to evolve. Radiation Research has weathered the rise of electronic publishing, consolidation in the commercial publishing industry, the aggregation of library subscriptions and library subscription cuts. Recent years have seen dramatic changes in how scholarly publishing is financed and new funder and institution policies will accelerate these changes. The growth of open access to journal articles reflects the information habits of readers and facilitates the dissemination of new knowledge. The Radiation Research Society, however, will need to account for and adapt to changes in the publishing market if it intends to support the communication of peer reviewed scholarship in the future.Item Context and characteristics of the research metrics librarian(2019-10-25) Craven, Hannah J.; Grooten, Todd M.; Whipple, Elizabeth C.; Ralston, Rick K.; Odell, Jere D.Item Determining the Cost of Open Access: Estimating Annual Article Processing Charges for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Medicine Articles at a Large Midwestern University(2022-10-24) Pieczko, Brandon T.; Odell, Jere D.; Pike, Caitlin; Dirzis, AshleyObjectives: Article Processing Charges (APCs) for articles published in for-fee, gold open access journals are paid in a number of ways at this institution. These include a library-managed Open Access (OA) Fund, grant accounts, faculty professional development funds, departmental discretionary funds, and private faculty funds. The institution is currently considering several new approaches to providing authors with OA funding assistance, and the main objective for this research project was to determine an estimate for the total annual cost of APCs to the campus. Secondary goals included determining the financial impact of APCs on the institution’s research grants and corresponding authors. Methods: We conducted an affiliation search in Web of Science for the institution to identify articles published by authors at the university. We chose to limit results to articles published in 2019, as we wanted a sample year that would reflect the typical publishing output for the authors since the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted research and publishing patterns during 2020 and into 2021. We then selected only the articles that were designated as gold open access, as those articles were published openly in their final versions and were either supported by APCs or published by no fee OA journals. The results list (n=421) was then exported to a spreadsheet and our team analyzed each article using the following criteria to determine which articles would be included: Was the corresponding author for the article affiliated with the institution? If the article provides a funding acknowledgement, does it acknowledge a grant to the institution? What is the current APC for the journal as stated on the publisher’s website (in U.S. Dollars)? Results: Of the 421 articles our team analyzed, 168 had a corresponding author affiliated with the institution [combined APC total: $430,959 US]; of these, 143 were published in journals indexed by the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) [combined APC total: $349,699.89]; 100 of the DOAJ-index articles acknowledged grant funding to the institution [combined APC total: $274,688 USD]. Conclusions: Based on the findings of our research, if our university wanted to cover all APCs by corresponding authors published in DOAJ-indexed, “Gold OA” journals, the anticipated cost would be approximately $350,000 USD annually (with projected increases of 6% per year). These results highlight major concerns about the sustainability of current funding models for open access research and publishing in science, technology, engineering, and medicine.Item Finding the Golden Mean: An Efficient Model for Improving Discovery and Access for Legacy Theses and Dissertations in a Medical Library’s Institutional Repository(2023-11-16) Pieczko, Brandon T.Developing an efficient and cost-effective method for providing access to legacy print theses and dissertations is a challenge faced by many libraries that serve medical schools and other academic health science programs. The significant staff time and financial cost associated with systematically digitizing and providing complete online access to print theses and dissertations can be problematic given the potentially limited return on that investment as reflected in patron use statistics and other metrics. This presentation will describe how a medical school library improved the discoverability and accessibility of its legacy print theses and dissertations by implementing a cost-effective, selective digitization workflow that leveraged existing metadata and limited staff time. This workflow involved extracting and transforming existing metadata from the library catalog, selectively digitizing excerpts (title page, abstract, table of contents, and committee information) of all the theses and dissertations, and utilizing batch upload capabilities to add new descriptive records to the library’s institutional repository. In addition to improving the discoverability of these important scholarly resources, the medical library intends to implement a “scan-on-demand” service model in which patrons who are interested in obtaining the full text of a thesis or dissertation can do so by contacting the library directly. To date, the library has added descriptive records for more than 500 theses/dissertations to its institutional repository and has seen a tremendous return on its modest investment in the form of thousands of new page views and downloads within a few months.Item Going Beyond the IR: Using Content-Specific Platforms and Targeted Outreach to Provide Integrated Access to a Medical School’s Education Scholarship(2021-11-17) Pieczko, Brandon T.; Craven, Hannah J.To increase local contributions to medical education scholarship, a medical school began hosting an annual school-wide conference in 2020. Two librarians worked proactively with conference organizers to preserve and provide access to presentation materials and session recordings. This targeted outreach became more effective in the second year as students and faculty were invited on the conference submission form to express interest in contributing materials to the university’s institutional repository. The librarians were able to use this list of interested participants to obtain permissions, additional information, and address potential questions rather than relying on a post-hoc solicitation of conference materials. Workflow tutorials and tracking spreadsheets were developed and used by library staff to upload items and metadata to the campus institutional repository (posters, presentation slides) and a university-wide repository for digital audio and video collections (video recordings). The 2021 conference being virtual meant all presentations were recorded and increased ease of retrieval for upload. Librarians were able to integrate and streamline access to the materials across different systems using unique persistent identifiers. This new approach to documenting local scholarship provides sustainable, online access to conference materials that would otherwise not be available long-term, promotes the research of students and faculty, and increases the visibility of the institution’s digital repositories as a research service. Additionally, leveraging content-specific platforms to provide access to both traditional research products and recordings of the presentations themselves gives asynchronous viewers a more complete, integrated learning experience. Pressure points, limitations, and areas of improvement will be discussed. Presentation recording available online: https://hsrc.himmelfarb.gwu.edu/mirl/2021/program/9Item Online Scholarly Presence after Completing IMPRS(2024-06-11) Craven, Hannah J.; Pieczko, Brandon T.This handout is intended for IMPRS students to promote and claim their scholarly items online, increase visibility and findability of their work, and making it easier when they apply to residency using the Electronic Residency Application Service (ERAS).Item 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.Item Open scholarly communications and international cooperation: equity in Bioethics publishing(American Society for Bioethics and Humanities, 2013-10-27) Odell, Jere D.; Garba, IbrahimIn recent decades, scholarly communications (the exchange of peer reviewed knowledge and research information) has been transformed by the availability of Web-based publishing. Ostensibly, this change should make the delivery of bioethics literature faster and cheaper. Publishers, libraries, and readers are no longer facing the burden of shipping expensive materials to remote locations. Government initiatives, such as the U.S. National Institutes of Health Public Access Policy and the World Health Organization HINARI Programme, represent significant efforts to take advantage of these changes by reducing or removing price barriers to electronic biomedical literature for readers in developing countries. These policies are supplemented by the growth of open-access publishing—a growth that is increasingly distributed around the world. For example, 61% of the 445 new open-access journals released in the Western hemisphere during 2012 were published in Central and South America. At the same time, the availability of Internet access and the use of mobile information devices continue to spread. Yet international barriers to the bioethics literature remain stubbornly in place. Preliminary analysis of bioethics literature indexed in PubMed Medline shows that the journal literature is, in large part, closed to readers without the resources to pay for rising subscription costs (open access quotient: bioethics = 7%). This inequity may be exacerbated in the future as the “author-pays” or “Gold Open Access” model of publishing accelerates. Thus, even as advocates work to make bioethics literature more accessible, the culture of academic publishing may continue to disadvantage contributions from developing economies. In international research ethics, this means that bioethicists in these economies will increasingly be able to read about the ethical challenges of biomedical research in their communities, but, at the same time, become more and more marginalized in the scholarly debate. In this paper, we propose that Article 15(4) of the International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) (codifying Article 27 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights), provides a principled basis for changing the culture of scholarly publishing in bioethics. Article 15(4) recognizes the importance of “international contacts and cooperation in the scientific and cultural fields.” Current publishing trends militate against the development of forums in which issues of common (if not global) concern can be debated by an internationally diverse community of bioethicists. By enabling robust discussions of ethical issues within the “pages” of individual open-access journals, bioethicists could align their publishing market with their principles.Item The Role of Subsidy in Scholarly Communication(http://www.educause.edu/ero/article/role-subsidy-scholarly-communication, 2013-05) Lewis, David W.The article argues that because scholarly communication, like the larger research enterprise, is a public good, it is supported by subsidy. This subsidy can be rechanneled to create new models for scholarly communications such as open access. It will be important to find the cheapest, easiest, and fastest mechanisms so that the value of the subsidy is maximized.