The Scholars Cooperative: A New Marketing Approach For Our Scholarly Communications Initiatives

Wayne State University librarians have been working towards identifying and rebranding our suite of scholarly communications and publishing services, now called The Scholars Cooperative. The Scholars Cooperative aids, educates and empowers the campus community to advance the creation, distribution and preservation of scholarship beyond traditional academic publishing models. We will share the cooperatives’ vision, planning process, organizational structure, and services offered

Open Access, Scholarly Communications, and Digital Commons

Presentation to faculty in Wayne State University\u27s (WSU) College of Education about Open Access Initiatives at WSU, and how to participate in Green OA as a matter of course in research and publication

Communicating Uncertainty During Public Health Emergency Events:A Systematic Review

To answer the question, "What are the best ways to communicate uncertainties to public audiences, at-risk communities, and stakeholders during public health emergency events?" we conducted a systematic review of published studies, grey literature, and media reports in English and other United Nations (UN) languages: Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian, and Spanish. Almost 11,500 titles and abstracts were scanned of which 46 data-based primary studies were selected, which were classified into four methodological streams: Quantitative-comparison groups; Quantitative-descriptive survey; Qualitative; and Mixed-method and case-study. Study characteristics (study method, country, emergency type, emergency phase, at-risk population) and study findings (in narrative form) were extracted from individual studies. The findings were synthesized within methodological streams and evaluated for certainty and confidence. These within-method findings were next synthesized across methodological streams to develop an overarching synthesis of findings. The findings showed that country coverage focused on high and middle-income countries in Asia, Europe, North America, and Oceania, and the event most covered was infectious disease followed by flood and earthquake. The findings also showed that uncertainty during public health emergency events is a multi-faceted concept with multiple components (e.g., event occurrence, personal and family safety, recovery efforts). There is universal agreement, with some exceptions, that communication to the public should include explicit information about event uncertainties, and this information must be consistent and presented in an easy to understand format. Additionally, uncertainty related to events requires a distinction between uncertainty information and uncertainty experience. At-risk populations experience event uncertainty in the context of many other uncertainties they are already experiencing in their lives due to poverty. Experts, policymakers, healthcare workers, and other stakeholders experience event uncertainty and misunderstand some uncertainty information (e.g., event probabilities) similar to the public. Media professionals provide event coverage under conditions of contradictory and inconsistent event information that can heighten uncertainty experience for all

Putting Multimedia Exhibits in the Palm of Your Hand

Presentation given by Rachael Clark and Damecia Donahue in November of 2012 at the Michigan Library Association Annual Conference in Detroit, MI. The discussion revolved around topics related to libraries creating exhibits using their own collections and resources; this included the idea of incorporating multimedia tools and web applications to creatively and interactively provide access to library materials

High Impact or Open Access: Strategies for recruiting faculty to your institutional Repository

Donahue and Neds-Fox will detail the strategy used by the Wayne State University Libraries to make the case for Green Open Access participation by faculty. Presenters will outline their approach to crafting the case for Open Access and deposit using studies supporting OA citation advantage, ISI\u27s JCR, SHERPA/RoMEO, and a library-centered service model for citation review and deposit. (Note: This program was presented at Michigan Library Associations Academic Libraries Conference in May, and may be previewed at http://digitalcommons.wayne.edu/libsp/65/.

WTF (What’s To Fear)?!? Owning The Mistakes We Make And Learning From Them

Have you *$%#’d up? We have. Presenters will discuss some of the ways we’ve made mistakes and recovered. We’ll offer examples of our mistakes and what we learned. We’ll look at balancing individual initiative with the need to work within a team environment. Presenters will facilitate a fun, interactive, and lively session helping you turn your mistakes into opportunities. You’ll leave equipped with tools to think about mistakes, grow from them, and create better outcomes

DIY DigitalCommons@WayneState Workshop

This workshop will show you how to successfully manage your own submissions to DigitalCommons@WayneState. This is intended to be a hands-on workshop, so please bring your submissions

E-volving Information Literacy Tutorials with E-maginative and E-ngaging Design

Presentation on May 22nd, 2014, at The Workshop for Instruction in Library Use (WILU), at Western University, Ontario, Canada