How can universities increase Green Open Access? Article deposit rates soar after direct solicitation from library.

Universities have struggled to increase article deposit rates for their institutional repositories. Regardless of citation benefits and top-down mandates, getting faculty to adjust publishing workflows does not happen overnight. At their institution, Michael Boock and Hui Zhang found that direct solicitation of author manuscripts has been the most effective method of reaching a higher deposit rate

Предпочитания на българските автори за отворен достъп

Survey questionnaire distributed to faculty at six Bulgarian universities. Results are the basis of "Bulgarian Author Open Access Awareness and Preferences" research article: Boock, M., et al... (2019). Bulgarian Author Open Access Awareness and Preferences. Library Management

Getting Digitization Projects Done in a Medium-Sized Academic Library: a Collaborative Effort Between Technical Services, Systems, Special Collections, and Collection Development

Cleveland State University Library, a medium-sized academic library serving approximately 15,000 students, is engaged in large-scale efforts to digitize and make accessible online collections of unique Cleveland-related materials. The Cleveland State University Library Special Collections digitization and cataloging efforts use staff from several different library organizational units. The collaboration of staff with specific expertise in long-standing library functions -- special collections, cataloging, systems, archives, selection -- to create two Web databases is described. The collaborative effort has proven effective in getting resources processed, archived, digitized, described, promoted, and made accessible in a highly efficient and effective manner. The responsibilities of the different library units involved in the digitization project are described

The Future of the Catalog: WorldCat Local

Presentation about OCLC's recently unveiled WorldCat Local product. Discusses some of the functionality of the software, how it is different from our local OPACs, what it does well and not so well and finally some concerns with the one big catalog, single silo approach.Presented to Oregon State University Libraries staff as part of the Future of the Catalog Information Session at Valley Library on May 24, 2007.Keywords: OPACs, Online public access catalogs, OCLC, WorldCat Local, WorldCat.or

OSU Libraries & Press Open Access Fund Report

OSU Libraries & Press initiated a pilot Open Access Fund in April 2015 that paid for open access article processing charges for OSU authors who met award criteria. The purpose of the fund was to heighten the visibility and accessibility of OSU scholarship and to support faculty and their student and post-doc co-authors, in all disciplines, who choose to publish in open access journals that require article processing charges. The fund was intended for authors who did not otherwise have access to funds for open access publishing fees. This report describes the purpose of the fund, who received funding, and potential next steps

Threats to and Opportunities for Technical Services Departments: Report of the ALCTS Technical Services Administrators of Medium-Sized Research Libraries Discussion Group, ALA Annual 2006

The ALCTS Technical Services Administrators of Medium-Sized Research Libraries Discussion Group discussed several topics within an overarching theme at the 2006 annual conference in New Orleans: “Threats to and Opportunities for Technical Services Departments”. Topics discussed within that general theme included: Future of the Catalog, Future of Cataloging as a Profession, Library of Congress Series Authority Record Decision, Managing Change, and Electronic Resource Management.Keywords: cataloging, series authorities, electronic resource management, catalogs, change managementKeywords: cataloging, series authorities, electronic resource management, catalogs, change managemen

Organizing for Digitization at Oregon State University: a Case Study and Comparison with ARL Libraries

This article presents a case study of how Oregon State University Libraries (OSUL) organized to accomplish digitization activities. Digitization activities are broken down into 6 major categories: management, copyright, digital imaging, metadata, hardware/software/web design, and selection. The OSUL departments responsible for tasks within each of these sets of responsibilities are identified. The OSUL experience of incorporating digitization responsibilities within the existing organizational structure is compared with the results of a previously conducted survey of ARL libraries

Linked Data Report and Recommendations for Oregon State University Libraries and Press

Executive Summary: Oregon State University Libraries and Press (OSULP) demonstrates the value of openness in a variety of ways. We worked with faculty to pass an open access policy to provide the broadest possible access to university scholarship. We teach faculty and students to use data tools that promote the sharing and distribution of research data. We help students make their theses, dissertations, final research projects, and data openly available. We work with scholars to publish digital humanities projects, conference proceedings, textbooks, journals and other research outputs on the open web. We have a commitment to the use of open source software and make our code openly available; and, with the development of Oregon Digital as a linked data platform, we openly share our metadata for the widest possible machine distribution and reuse on the open web. As a production-ready metadata solution with the potential for improving user access to related resources, the use of linked data within Oregon Digital and the ScholarsArchive@OSU institutional repository remains a promising and worthwhile endeavor. Its use ensures normalization and consistency of metadata and enables quality faceted browsing of digital objects within discovery interfaces. Longer term, our use of linked data has the potential to link our digital content with other data on the open web, providing users with added context for items within our collections and connecting them with related resources that reside outside our own collections. Also, the fact that linked data is more easily understood by computers gives that data an opportunity to interact with other systems and data sources more intelligently. As one librarian I spoke with said, “Once you have semantic concepts embedded into your data, things like authority control, data sharing, alternative language support – these things become easier.” Given the significant investment OSULP has already made in linked data by building Oregon Digital on a linked data platform, its future promise of reducing silos of library information, and the research value of this work, I propose that OSULP should continue to create, maintain and publish linked data for, at least, our digital collections and, in the future, the institutional repository. The ability for OSULP to fully benefit from the work we’ve already done depends on our ability to make it interoperable with other linked datasets on the web. OSULP should also begin tracking the emerging use of linked data in library catalogs and discovery services. To do so, OSULP would benefit by hiring a “next generation” cataloger/metadata librarian and increasing the pool of staff with an understanding of linked data and its uses. The next cataloger/metadata person hired by OSULP should be someone with linked data expertise, familiar with BIBFRAME and the RDF data model, who also has knowledge of MARC, dcterms, and other current cataloging standards and metadata schemes. We also need more staff with at least a basic level of linked data expertise who can take incoming metadata and prepare it for bulk ingest into our digital asset management systems. Training on basic linked data concepts and the tools we’ve put in place should be provided to library faculty and staff who are in positions to take on more of this work. SCARC could take a leadership position for the library in terms of metadata in general, and linked data specifically.Report to Faye Chadwell, Donald and Delpha Campbell University Librarian and OSU Press Director

A Fulbright and a Librarian in Bulgaria: Design of a University of Library Studies and Information Technologies Digital Libraries Course

This paper describes the development of a course on Digital Libraries taught in Fall 2018 in the Library Management Department at the University of Library Studies and Information Technologies (ULSIT). The instructor, an Associate Professor and Digital Projects Librarian at Oregon State University in the United States, received a U.S. Fulbright Award to teach and conduct research on digital libraries and open access in Bulgaria. The course focuses on practical methodologies and techniques for creating and managing digital libraries. Topics include digital library evaluation; digital library software systems, technologies and tools; metadata and organization; project management for digitization; digital library workflows; digitization techniques and best practices; access to and use of digital libraries; digital preservation; and copyright considerations, all with a focus on the creation and management of open access repository-based digital libraries. In-class activities, discussions, and assignments that provide hands-on experience in digital library development are described as well as the ways that the course might benefit students in their future work in libraries. The author describes the assignment of readings that focus on real-world practical digital library documentation. The author’s background in digital libraries and how that is brought to bear on the course content is also described