Scholarly Communications Report on Activities 2015-16

2015-16 annual report for Scholarly Communications work at Musselman Library, including Gettysburg College\u27s institutional repository, The Cupola: Scholarship at Gettysburg College. Covers June 2015-May 2016

Is an institutional repository right for your small college library?

Learn how a small college library launched an institutional repository (IR) without dedicated staff or IT support. Thanks to hosted solutions and our global learning community, open access repositories are now within reach of smaller institutions, and they bring many benefits to the libraries that manage them. Weigh the benefits of library publishing with the new, lower cost of participating, and decide if an IR is right for your library

Small School, Big Reach: Open Access Outreach on a Liberal Arts College Campus

The liberal arts college environment provides opportunities for campus-wide engagement of open access issues that may differ from those at larger institutions. Because we support fewer campus authors, we are able to provide a high level of service. Librarians’ close connections with faculty and students allow us to move beyond articles and theses and solicit a wide range of scholarly and creative works to share in our repository. In addition, we’ve fostered conversations about open access, open textbooks, altmetrics, and copyright among faculty, staff, and students. This poster will present a snapshot of a variety of outreach and education strategies used at Gettysburg College, a small, private liberal arts institution

Engaging Student Journal Editors

Editing and publishing a student research journal is a high-impact educational practice that libraries are uniquely suited to support. Gettysburg College’s Musselman Library hosts three student-edited journals in our open access institutional repository. We train student editors to use the online journal publishing platform to receive, assign, and review submissions. We also expose them to the scope of undergraduate publishing beyond our institution, describe the benefits of open access publishing to authors (including sharing their own use metrics), invite professors who edit professional journals to share their expertise with the students, and facilitate a discussion about how their editing process parallels the professional publishing process in their fields. Engaging student journal editors in the overarching issues related to peer review and publishing is a rewarding way for the library to contribute to student success in this important endeavor

Open Textbooks: Access, Affordability, and Academic Success

This session will give Gettysburg College faculty a chance to learn more about open textbooks and how to discover options that might work for the courses you teach. Open textbooks can help alleviate the burden of textbook costs for students and provide faculty with content that can be customized for their course. Open textbooks are full, real textbooks, used by many faculty across the country, and licensed to be freely used, edited, and distributed. After the workshop, participants will be invited to write a short review of an open textbook they might assign in a course (please note: open textbooks are not available for all subjects). Your review will be shared in the Open Textbook Library so it may benefit other faculty considering open textbooks. Workshop participants who write a review will receive a $200.00 stipend, payable upon receipt of the review. Sponsored by the Johnson Center for Creative Teaching and Learnin

Opening Access, Increasing Impact: IRs are Ideal for Smaller Institutions!

What do smaller academic institutions need to know about institutional repositories and open access? Student and faculty authors enjoy many benefits from making their work open, and the hosting institution receives international visibility. A repository can be a DIY publishing platform. Learn how Gettysburg College got started and hear about the wide range of materials that are being shared. Gettysburg’s repository, The Cupola, currently includes over 5,000 works that have been downloaded 420,000 times... and counting

How to Cut a Third of Your Journal Subscriptions (and Keep Faculty Happy)

When faced with a 0% budget increase for fiscal year 2010, librarians at Gettysburg College designed a comprehensive review of journal subscriptions. Library staff began by gathering data about format(s), price, publisher, and more. Then subject librarians consulted with academic departments and asked faculty to review titles for relevance to current research and curriculum. 100% of departments cooperated with the review with a mixture of enthusiasm and concern; in the end, most offered to cancel about a third of their journal titles. By trimming multiple format subscriptions, relying on aggregator databases for full text content, cancelling titles that no longer support the curriculum, and cancelling a small number of high-cost subscriptions in favor of document delivery, the library met – and exceeded – its savings target. More importantly, by involving the faculty in every stage of the review process and sharing all available information, the library received absolutely no complaints about cancellations. This poster presentation will include a flow chart of the entire review process, sample review spreadsheets used by faculty in academic departments, and graphs showing cancellations by department. This journal review model is transferable to other academic libraries

The Cupola: Scholarship at Gettysburg College - Institutional Repository Report 2012-13

First annual report for Gettysburg College\u27s institutional repository, The Cupola: Scholarship at Gettysburg College. Covers January 2012-May 2013

The Cupola: Scholarship at Gettysburg College - promotional flyer

Promotional/informational piece aimed at faculty, based on 2012-13 annual report of Gettysburg College\u27s institutional repository