Investing in Knowledge: The Benefits of an Open Access Fund

This presentation will discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the University of Nebraska at Omaha Open Access Fund through analysis of the disciplinary diversity of applicants, eligibility guidelines, funding limit and the benefits of publishing Open Access. Furthermore, it will seek to discover ways to increase participation in the Open Access Fund and by extension, the institutional repository, through comparison with other universities’ OA funds

Anatomy of Creative Commons Licenses

In this presentation we will explore the anatomy of Creative Commons licenses through coming to understand six key areas. These areas are: 1.What is Creative Commons (CC)? 2.Three layers of the CC licenses 3.Four license elements and their icons 4.Six Creative Commons licenses 5.CC licenses affect on copyright exceptions and limitations 6.CC licenses affect on works in the public domai

Using Creative Commons Licenses and Creative Commons Licensed Works

Understanding the difference between collections and derivative works is key to your reuse and adaptation of existing material. It is often useful to create collections and derivative works for educational purposes; for instance, you may wish to compile a collection of articles or adapt an existing educational source to serve as a course text. However, it is not always possible to do both or any, depending on copyright restrictions. This presentation will guide your use and re-use of material that hold a Creative Commons license. In this presentation we will answer the questions What are collections and what are derivative works? We will also provide examples of collections and derivative works, along with providing tools for how to navigate reuse with the adapter\u27s license chart and the license compatibility chart

What is Creative Commons?

What is Creative Commons? is a presentation discussing the background and purpose of Creative Commons

Easy as 1,2,3: Create your own journal/ event pages with DigitalCommons@UNO

Creating a journal or event page with DigitalCommons is as easy as 1,2,3! Journal/ event pages on DigitalCommons@UNO possess similar features. These features help you to: •Create more impact •Create opportunities for outreach •Save time on administrative task

Opening Access: Increasing Scholarly Impact with DigitalCommons@UNO

DigitalCommons@UNO (https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/) is an Institutional Repository (IR) and an initiative implemented by the University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO) Libraries to support our UNO scholars through providing a Green Open Access solution. DigitalCommons@UNO disseminates a wide variety of scholarship including faculty papers, electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs), conferences and journals. Since its launch in 2014, the UNO Libraries have been implementing and managing DigitalCommons@UNO through outreach to the UNO community in an effort to collect scholarly works into the IR

Creating Capacity for Research Data Services at Regional Universities: A Case Study

Understanding the processes of research design and of data collection, organization, storage, preservation, and sharing is critical to the success of any project, regardless of the scope of the research. From research design and conceptualization to the potential sharing of data with other researchers for replicability, as well as preserving data for the benefit of the wider research community, unique challenges, as well as opportunities for research data management (RDM) and research data services (RDS) teams, are presented; these include problems, issues, and concerns regarding how to prepare a data management plan (DMP) and how to manage data collection, analysis, storage, and preservation. In response to these concerns, academic institutions typically have structured RDS for students and faculty through the support of many stakeholders: academic librarians who are familiar with the disciplinary resources and have skills in archives, data curation, and institutional repositories; information technology services staff who provide solutions to infrastructure issues regarding storage and archiving; and other campus research administration entities that deal with the funding, integrity, and administration aspects of the research

Dismantling the Knowledgeopoly: An Open Research Future

A library plays an integral part in the community because its doors are usually open to everyone, at least in non-pandemic times. However, access to education, to research or, more broadly, to knowledge is often siloed and hidden behind subscriptions so that knowledge monopolies start to grow. In “Dismantling the Knowledgeopoly: An Open Research Future”, and in celebration of October’s Open Access Week that promotes free, immediate access to peer reviewed scholarship, we will look at ways you can broaden the scope of Open Access and move towards Open Research. The idea for this presentation arose through working in the scholarly communications field and seeing calls for it to become more sustainable and accessible. In addition to this and due to the current financial climate, where libraries are being asked to cut budgets we have been given, as presenter Kathleen Fitzpatrick put it in the OASPA webinar, “What is Scholarly Publishing in the 21st Century?, we have been given “an awful opportunity” to rebuild scholarly communications to serve humanity through moving towards open research and making education more accessible. Libraries can not afford to do otherwise

Teaching Research Data Management

Editor: Julia Bauder Chapter: Creating Capacity for Research Data Services at Regional Universities: A Case Study authored by Omer Farooq, Jason A. Heppler, and Kate M. Ehrig-Page of the University of Nebraska at Omaha Armed with this guide\u27s strategies and concrete examples, subject librarians, data services librarians, and scholarly communication librarians will be inspired to roll up their sleeves and get involved with teaching research data management competencies to students and faculty. The usefulness of research data management skills bridges numerous activities, from data-driven scholarship and open research by faculty to documentation for grant reporting. And undergrads need a solid foundation in data management for future academic success. This collection gathers practitioners from a broad range of academic libraries to describe their services and instruction around research data. You will learn about such topics as integrating research data management into information literacy instruction; threshold concepts for novice learners of data management; four key competencies that are entry points for library-faculty collaboration in data instruction; an 8-step plan for outreach to faculty and grad students in engineering and the sciences; using RStudio to teach data management, data visualization, and research reproducibility; expanding data management instruction with adaptable modules for remote learning; designing a data management workshop series; developing a research guide on data types, open data repositories, and data storage; creating a data management plan assignment for STEM undergraduates; and data management training to ensure compliance with grant requirements.https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/crisslibfacbooks/1001/thumbnail.jp

Model County Subdivision Regulations

This HERPICC model is intended as a basis for helping Indiana counties, cities, and towns to write or revise local regulatory ordinances