Scholarly Communication

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Maps for Our Maps: Improving Access to Historic Maps with Interactive Indexes
(Indiana University Digital Collections Services, 2015-09-16) Quill, Theresa
The Herman B Wells Library at Indiana University has been digitizing its collection of Soviet Military Topographic maps from 1880 to the 1940s. These maps were created by the Soviet Military for internal intelligence purposes and classified as top secret. During World War II, some sheets were captured by German forces and were later captured by the U.S. Military. These maps bear stamps from Nazi Germany and are marked “captured map.” After the fall of the Soviet Union, many more maps made their way to libraries across the United States, including the library at Indiana University. Previously, in order for a user to find these topographic maps, he or she must be able to read an old and unclear index map to determine the appropriate sheet. This is especially vexing in the case of Eastern Europe, where borders and place names changed frequently in the early 20th Century. Based on a framework created by Christopher Thiry at the Colorado School of Mines, I used GIS to create an online, interactive index for this map set. The index allows for searching, panning, and zooming in a familiar online map environment. Eventually, all of the digitized maps will be linked to the interactive index and included in a collaborative index project hosted on ArcGIS Online with the goal of facilitating user interaction and of preserving the maps in this digitized environment.
CartoShop: Inviting Interdisciplinary Research through GIS Mapping Workshops
(Association of College & Research Libraries, 2018) Jenns, Erika; Quill, Theresa
The Indiana University Libraries' Scholars’ Commons, a space dedicated to facilitating interdisciplinary research at any stage, offers a variety of workshop series designed to support graduate student research. Workshops are presented by librarians and library partners to foster creativity, teach new tools, and support students throughout their tenure at Indiana University. Workshop series include “Supercharge Your Dissertation”, “What to Expect When You’re Expecting Your MLS”, “Maker Mondays”, and “CartoShop”. This chapter offers a case study for supporting interdisciplinary graduate student research with geospatial tools and methods. Through the CartoShop series, participants learn to use mapping tools such as: ESRI StoryMaps, CARTO, ArcGIS, QGIS, and OpenStreetMap. IU Libraries’ partners also lead workshops on 3D mapping and local geospatial data storage and discovery. These workshops are meant to introduce researchers to mapping tools more broadly and to demonstrate how these tools can be used for specific projects and initiatives. Locating these workshops in the Scholars’ Commons encourages graduate students from all disciplines to participate and enables students without departmental geospatial resources to engage in geospatial research and projects. CartoShop workshops are a low barrier entry point to learning about Geographic Information Science (GIS), and frequently result in continued one-on-one consultations with the GIS Librarian. These workshops and consultations present opportunities for the librarian to make further connections for students with additional library services and research tools. While the CartoShop workshops teach graduate students specific tools and skills, they are also a valuable outreach tool for engaging with graduate students from a wide variety of disciplines.
Furthering Open: Tips for Crafting an IR Deposit Service
(Academic Libraries of Indiana, 2018-10-26) Hare, Sarah; Hoops, Jenny
Throughout the 2017-2018 academic year, Indiana University Bloomington piloted a CV Service to all faculty members interested in depositing their scholarly body of work into the institutional repository. The goal of the pilot was to streamline deposit for faculty, promote repository ease of use and helpfulness of staff, and provide a clear mechanism for faculty interested in depositing and promoting a large amount of their work at once. The CV Service Pilot was an important strategic addition to the department’s suite of services, which also includes data publishing assistance, an open access journal publishing program, and, most recently, assisting with the operationalization of a campus-wide open access policy. We will utilize statistics collected from the pilot and synthesize lessons learned for communicating with publishers and faculty, estimating resources needed, and promoting the service. We will also present modules of the CV Service workflow for participants interested in streamlining deposit but without the resources needed to launch a dedicated service. For example, the service utilized an assistance authorization form, which gave library staff permission to complete all of the rights checking, publisher contact, and deposit needed to make faculty work available openly. This form could be immediately adopted by librarians interested in increasing deposits. Most importantly, our presentation will summarize how the CV service shaped departmental open access outreach to make it more proactive and realistic, centering faculty strategies for retaining author rights and retention of article versions (i.e. pre-prints and post-prints) in order to make open possible.
Raise Your Research Profile
(2019) Hare, Sarah; Tavernier, Willa
An introduction into specific ways Indiana University faculty and researchers can broaden the impact of their research and increase awareness of their work. The program discusses how to best take advantage of Open Access publishing, and IU Libraries' CV Service, as well as explore access to resources that successful faculty use to describe the impact of their work. IU Libraries, the Office of the Vice Provost for Faculty and Academic Affairs, the Office of the Vice Provost for Diversity and Inclusion, and the Center for Excellence for Women in Technology co-hosted this event.
Library publisher resources: Making publishing approachable, sustainable, and values-driven
(College & Research Libraries News, 2019-02) Hoops, Jenny; Hare, Sarah
The Library Publishing Coalition (LPC) defines library publishing as the “creation, dissemination, and curation of scholarly, creative, and/or educational works” by college and university libraries. While providing a publishing platform, hosting, and services for editorial teams is key to any library publishing initiative, library publishing is also centered on furthering core library values. Thus library publishing activities are mission-driven, centered on education, and focused on finding and promoting sustainable approaches to open access publishing and building cooperative open infrastructure. This article highlights exemplary library publishing resources that are educational and prompt editorial team reflection about author rights, open access, or experimental publishing. We hope that this will serve as an immediately useful resource for those embedded in library publishing work, as many of these resources can be easily adapted and remixed. We also hope that this audit of current tools and resources will inspire the development and sharing of new resources that all library publishers can use.
Using IUScholarworks for Scholarly Visibility
(2019-02-08) Tavernier, Willa
An overview of how Indiana University faculty and researchers can use the IUScholarWorks repository and suite of services to broaden the impact of their research and increase the visibility of their work. The program discusses how to best take advantage of Open Access publishing, IU Libraries' CV Service, how to set up an ORCID ID, using Google Scholar, and leveraging all of these using social networking.
An Introduction to Open Educational Resources and Tips for Finding, Adopting, and Creating OER at IU
(Indiana University Digital Collections Services, 2019-03-06) Hare, Sarah; Tavernier, Willa
This interactive workshop will consider how Open Educational Resources (OER) can alleviate the high cost Indiana University Bloomington undergraduate students pay for course materials (an estimated $1,034 each academic year). Data suggests that students will forgo purchasing expensive course materials, even when they know it will impact their success in the classroom. This session will introduce OER and discuss its benefits, critically think about challenges to OER adoption, and formulate strategies to support IU instructors in finding high-quality OER, adapting them to fit students’ needs, and creating (even in collaboration with students) customized course materials. Please bring a laptop or similar device.
Take Charge of Your Scholarly Narrative: Using Metrics and Altmetrics to Demonstrate Impact
(2019-11-19) Tavernier, Willa
Demonstrating impact is a key component of academic promotion and tenure. Academic Research Offices, Employers, and Granting Agencies are increasingly turning to online profiles and research metrics as indicators of faculty contribution, productivity, and impact. This workshop puts research metrics and altmetrics in context, including: Strategies to manage your digital profiles and increase visibility of your work; How common research metrics are calculated and used, their benefits and limitations; and Hands-on practice using metrics, altmetrics, and qualitative indicators to demonstrate the value of your work. The workshop exercises (see https://guides.libraries.indiana.edu/Metrics) provide opportunities to evaluate the types of work you feel are the most important and valuable, and how to highlight such work while going through the promotion and tenure process.
The Open Access Policy in Action: Automating Author’s Rights
(Indiana University Digital Collections Services, 2020-04-22) Hoops, Jenny; McLaughlin, Margaret
This February was the third year anniversary of the Open Access Policy, authored to ensure the accessibility and availability of university scholarship to the public for future generations. When the policy was passed, the Scholarly Communication Department was tasked with encouraging several thousand faculty to annually deposit their work into a new institutional repository, IUScholarWorks Open. To facilitate the deposit process, developers in Library Technologies developed the Bloomington Research Information Tracking Engine, also known as BRITE. The BRITE application is able to check the open access and copyright status of articles, compile emails to faculty, and prepare metadata for batch deposit into IUScholarWorks Open. While some manual intervention is still necessary, BRITE has helped our team automate a normally extensive and time-consuming process. This session will walk through the process of development for the BRITE application, as well as the documentation that allows users and employees with little to no subject knowledge on copyright, metadata, or automation to successfully navigate the application. We will also discuss some of our plans for the BRITE application in the future, and look for insight into what development our users may need moving forward.
Building a Foundation for Sustainable Library Publishing: Quantitative Tools & Practical Methods
(Library Publishing Forum 2020, 2020-05-07) Hoops, Jenny; Tavernier, Willa
As library publishing programs continue to expand, developing a sustainable framework for onboarding journals and publishing new content has become imperative. In 2019 the Indiana University Libraries open access publishing program reached over 50 journals. To cope with this workload, we recognized the need to develop a methodology for sustainable publishing. Up to that point, we onboarded new journals as soon as the editors were ready, and went to great lengths to accommodate new feature requests and technical changes. Meanwhile, library employees were spending a disproportionate amount of time on publishing maintenance and routine, repetitive editorial queries. To alleviate these issues, we developed a quantitative assessment for our journals that assigned points correlating to the number of work hours a given task took to complete. We then assessed all existing journals and decided on the amount of FTE workforce we could dedicate to journal publishing. This allowed us to calculate the number of points that could be added each quarter, and establish a queue system - any journals projected to exceed this amount would be onboarded in a future quarter. We also created new FAQs addressing common user issues. The strain on our department immediately lessened, and we have already seen a more consistent and sustainable workflow. This system also allowed us to set stable timelines to process requests, and focus on doing more collaborative work with editors rather than automatically completing tasks for them. This session will present a case study of the Indiana University Libraries Scholarly Communication department’s quantitative methods for onboarding and maintaining journals. Participants will have the opportunity to apply our methodology to their own programs, and brainstorm how to develop methodologies that would fit with their own needs and resources. We will also provide time to discuss long-term projections for library publishing programs.
Web Accessibility in the Institutional Repository: Crafting User-Centered Submission Policies
(NASIG 2020, 2020-06) McLaughlin, Margaret; Hoops, Jenny
As web accessibility initiatives increase across institutions, it is important not only to reframe and rethink policies, but also to develop sustainable and tenable methods for enforcing accessibility efforts. For institutional repositories, it is imperative to determine the extent to which both the repository manager and the user are responsible for depositing accessible content. This presentation allows us to share our accessibility framework and help repository and content managers craft sustainable, long-term goals for accessible content in institutional repositories, while also providing openly available resources for short-term benefit.
Scholarly Communication at the Library: Encouraging Open Access, Open Publishing, and Open Education
(2020-08-27) Hoops, Jenny
This presentation presents several strategies, services, and workflows to facilitate scholarly communication concepts at all levels of the library. This includes how to manage and encourage deposit to institutional repositories; how to provide support and consultations for faculty interested in making their work open access; and finally, how to help faculty find online open educational resources, especially with the recent shift to virtual teaching.
IU Libraries Course Material Services
(2020-10-28) Vaughn, Matthew; Hare, Sarah
This video describes the options and services that instructors have for selecting course materials. These include Open Educational Resources, fair use analysis, scanning of print materials, and finding/ acquiring library databases and eBooks.
Scholarly Communication Updates
(2021-04) Liburd Tavernier, Willa; Quill, Theresa
An update on open scholarship and open data services at IU Bloomington Libraries
Using Research Impact Tools to Create Scholarly Communication Reports for Humanities Librarians
([Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2021-05) Tavernier, Willa; Vaughn, Matthew
As subject-specialist librarians are increasingly expected to integrate scholarly communication competencies into their skillset, humanities specialists face the added challenge of addressing the insufficient coverage of humanities scholarship in the available citation databases. The purpose of this project was to develop and document an approach for creating discipline-specific scholarly communication reports for humanities liaison librarians. This methodology offers a practical way for liaisons to integrate bibliometric methods into their work while also creating a useful picture of scholarship at the departmental level.
Diversity Residency Toolkit
(ACRL Residency Interest Group, 2021-09) Adolpho, Kalani; Bergamasco, Maya; Corral, Ana; Peralta, Michelle; Rawls, Mallary; Tadena, Laura; Tavernier, Willa
Although many factors contribute to a resident’s experience with their host institution, the lack of established standards and best practices for diversity residencies has led to a wide disparity of resident experiences. In order to reduce this disparity, the Diversity Residency Toolkit was developed to improve diversity residency programs through the tenets of responsible commitments, intentional planning, and responsive assessment that begin far in advance of a resident’s arrival. The Diversity Residency Toolkit has broad applications and is suitable for institutions that already have a residency program and as well as those who are considering developing a residency program. It may be used by current and prospective residents, residency coordinators, supervisors, library administrators, and other stakeholders of diversity residency programs. Although the toolkit is intended for diversity residencies hosted at academic institutions, it may be adapted for non-diversity residencies as well as non-academic organizations such as museums, public libraries, business libraries and archives, etc. Interested parties may complete the form at https://bit.ly/DivToolkit to participate.
Your Journals Are Spying On You: Research Surveillance in Library Products
(2021-10-22) Lamdan, Sarah
Our traditional journal vendors are transitioning from being publishers to being data analytics companies. A few of them, including RELX (Reed Elsevier + LexisNexis) have even become data brokers that sell dossiers of personal information to ICE. In this discussion, we’ll look at how companies’ research platforms are now part of larger data analytics systems, and what that means for our privacy and intellectual freedom. We’ll also think about open access projects and other efforts that could help ensure that people who use our libraries can do their research without being subjected to surveillance.
Peer Review as Relationship
(2021-10-26) Abebe, Megdi; Santiago, Kristina; Leung, Sofia
This approach to peer review offers our contributors and reviewers agency in the process. We intentionally center the research, meditations and creative works by, for, and of BIPOC, as well as a publishing environment that prioritizes well-being.
Willa Liburd Tavernier On Land, Wealth, Liberation Digital Resource
(Winn Media SKN, 2022-04-20) Tavernier, Willa
Winn Media SKN News Item on “Land, Wealth, Liberation” Digital Resource
(Winn Media SKN, 2022-04-20) Tavernier, Willa

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