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Education/Outreach

Name: Open Access Week

Category: Education/Outreach

Unit/Department/Persons Involved: Open Temple Working Group*, LRS, HSL

Time Period: Every October

Description: A yearly global celebration to raise awareness about open access, open data, and open education.


Name: Fair Use Week

Category: Education/Outreach

Unit/Department/Persons Involved: Open Temple Working Group*, LRS

Time Period: Every February

Description: A yearly celebration to raise awareness about the importance of fair use.


Name: Open Education Week

Category: Education/Outreach

Unit/Department/Persons Involved: Open Temple Working Group*, LRS

Time Period: Every March

Description: A yearly celebration to raise awareness about open education.


Name: Open Access Library Guide

Category: Education/Outreach

Unit/Department/Persons Involved: Science and Engineering Librarian, Scholarly Communication Specialist

Time Period: Ongoing

Description: A standard LibGuide.


Name: Open Access in Health Information Library Guide (HSL)

Category: Education/Outreach

Unit/Department/Persons Involved: Biomedical and Research Services Librarian

Time Period: Ongoing

Description: A standard LibGuide.


Category: Scholarly Communication @ Temple blog

Category: Education/Outreach

Unit/Department/Persons Involved: Scholarly Communication Specialist

Time Period: Ongoing

Description: A blog that features posts about topics in scholarly communication. Often includes guest posts from TU Press staff, HSL staff, and others.


Name: Scholarly Communication Workshops and Events

Category: Education/Outreach

Unit/Department/Persons Involved: SCSST, HSL, LRS

Time Period: Ongoing

Description: See Appendix 1 for a listing of previous and upcoming workshops given by the Libraries. See Appendix 3 for a listing of previous and upcoming workshops given by other groups within the university.


Name: Scholarly Communication Instruction Sessions

Category: Education/Outreach

Unit/Department/Persons Involved: LRS, DSC, HSL

Time Period: Ongoing

Description: See Appendix 2 for a list of topics related to scholarly communication that librarians and library staff have covered during instruction sessions for undergraduate and graduate students.


*This group has been replaced by the Scholarly Communication Strategic Steering Team.


Services

Name: Open Access Publishing Fund

Category: Service

Unit/Department/Persons Involved: Executive Director of Press, Scholarly Communication Specialist, Collections, HSL

Time Period: Ongoing

Description: Provides funds to faculty and graduate students who want to publish their work in an OA journal but do not have the money to cover the article processing charge.


Name: Textbook Affordability Project

Category: Service

Unit/Department/Persons Involved: Associate University Librarian, Scholarly Communication Specialist

Time Period: Ongoing

Description: Provides funds to faculty who want to get rid of their commercial textbook and use open educational resources or library-licensed content instead.


Name: Library Publishing

Category: Service

Unit/Department/Persons Involved: Executive Director of Press, Scholarly Communication Specialist

Time Period: Ongoing

Description: Assist faculty and students who want to start an open access journal using OJS.


Technology

Name: Open Journal Systems

Category: Technology

Unit/Department/Persons Involved: LTD, Scholarly Communication Specialist, Executive Director of Press

Time Period: Ongoing

Description: Support and maintenance for OJS software.


Name: Scalar

Category: Technology

Unit/Department/Persons Involved: LTD, DSC

Time Period: Ongoing

Description: Support and maintenance for Scalar platform.


Name: Omeka

Category: Technology

Unit/Department/Persons Involved: LTD, DSC, Special Collections

Time Period: Ongoing

Description: Support and maintenance for Omeka platform.


Name: CONTENTdm

Category: Technology

Unit/Department/Persons Involved: DLI, Special Collections

Time Period: Ongoing

Description: Support and maintenance for CONTENTdm, which includes ETDs, undergraduate scholarship, and Press ebooks.


Name: Symplectic Elements

Category: Technology

Unit/Department/Persons Involved: RIM Library Group

Time Period: Ongoing

Description: The Team is currently charged with developing in-depth expertise in the Symplectic Elements platform, a Research Information Management System. It will explore possible workflows to support Schools and Colleges as they implement Elements.


Name: Institutional Repository

Category: Service/Technology

Unit/Department/Persons Involved: SCSST, DSSST, LTD

Time Period: Spring 2018

Description: A repository for scholarly publications, data, and other content. Connected to Symplectic Elements project.


Appendix 1: Library Workshops for Faculty, Students, and Staff


Faculty and Students


Managing Your Sources (2016/2017)

Measuring Your Research Impact (2016/2017)

Amplifying Research Impact (2016/2017)

Developing Your Scholarly Profile (2016/2017)

Introduction to Open Access (HSL) (2015)

Managing Your References with Endnote (2016) (HSL)

Managing Your References with Mendeley (2016) (HSL)

Refworks: Citations and Bibliographies Made Easy! (2016) (HSL)

Introduction to Humanities Commons (2017)

Predatory Publishing (2017)

Predatory Publishing and Biomedicine (HSL) (2017)

Publishing Your Dissertation (2017)

Understanding Fair Use (2017)

Removing Barriers, Increasing Access (HSL) (2017)

Open In Order to Change the World: How TU Libraries Are Helping to Democratize Access to Information (2017)

Open Access and the Future of Scholarly Publishing (2016)

Using Open Textbooks in the Classroom (2017)

Choosing a Journal (HSL) (2017)

Finding the right journal for your research (HSL) (2017)

Scholarly Communication for Anesthesiology Residents (HSL) (2017)

Research Impact Series (2018)

Pod Save the Academy: The Ins and Outs of Sharing Your Research via Podcasting (2018)

Copyright and the Dissertation (2018)

Using Open Textbooks in the Classroom (2018)

Measuring Research Impact (HSL) (2018)

Refworks (2018) (HSL)

Troubleshooting Citation Managers (2018) (HSL)

An Overview of Systematic Review Tools (2018) (HSL)


Libraries Staff


Introduction to OER (2016)

An Introduction to Open Access & OER (2016) (HSL) Staff/Annie & Stephanie

An Overview of Citation Managers (2016) (HSL) Stephanie & Natalie

ETDs (2017)

Predatory Publishing (2017)

Scholarly Book Publishing in a Digital Age (2017)


Appendix 2: Instruction Topics Currently Covered by Library Staff


Author rights

Citation managers

Copyright, fair use, public domain, and/or Creative Commons

Digital publishing (e.g. Omeka, Scalar, etc.)

Funder mandates and/or policies

Identifying publishing venues

Locating and researching faculty member's own publications for the promotion and tenure process (e.g. evaluating journals, journal impact factors, citation analysis and/or cited reference searching)

Open access

Open educational resources

Predatory publishers

Self-archiving (e.g. depositing work in a disciplinary repository)

Systematic reviews

Scholarly profiles (e.g. ResearchGate, Academia.edu, etc.)


Appendix 3: University-Sponsored Workshops for Faculty and Students


The Academic Job Market: An Ecological Introduction (2016) (CHAT)

Digital Scholarship and Humanities Professions (2016) (CHAT)

Promoting Your Career Through Online Social Media Presence (2016) (CHAT)

Exploring Diverse Forms of the Dissertation (2017) (CHAT)

From Graduate Student to Public Professor (2017) (CHAT)

Navigating Your First Academic/Research Position (2017) (CHAT)

Communicating Beyond the Ivory Tower (2018) (College of Liberal Arts Graduate Student Professional Development Series)

Grant Writing Basics (2018) (College of Liberal Arts Graduate Student Professional Development Series)

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