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Libraries Scholarly Works: Recent submissions
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Developing New Publishing Service Models at an Undergraduate College
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Assessing Reference Service Quality: A Chat Transcript Analysis
(Association of College and Research Libraries, 2017-03-28)In 2016, members of the University of Kansas Libraries’ Reference Services unit participated in a peer review of 60 chat transcripts from the Fall 2015 and 2016 semesters. This project grew out of the need to begin assessing ... -
Student Leadership in a Library-Initiated Experiential Learning Project
(Association of College & Research Libraries, 2017)This chapter discusses aspects of Undergraduates Speak: Our Rights and Access, a library-initiated and student-led pilot project aimed at advancing educational initiatives in the realm of scholarly communication. The project ... -
Resist and Respect Exhibition Opening with Dr. David Ambler
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Community-Led Teaching and Learning: Designing an Open Educational Resource for Scholarly Communication and Legal Issues
(2017-09-24)The open educational resources (OER) movement is growing at a rapid pace - not as rapidly as prices for textbooks have risen over the course of the last decades, and not rapidly enough to yet meet the exigent needs of ... -
User Search Terms and Controlled Subject Vocabularies in an Institutional Repository
(Emerald Publishing Limited, 2017-09)The purpose of this paper is to investigate the search behavior of institutional repository (IR) users in regard to subjects as a means of estimating the potential impact of applying a controlled subject vocabulary to an ... -
University 101 Instructor Manual -- 2017
(University of Kansas Libraries, 2017-09)The University 101 Information Literacy Unit Instructor Manual describes a four-day information literacy unit that is integrated into first-year experience courses at the University of Kansas. -
Developing Copyright Policy: A Guide for Liberal Arts Colleges
(The Oberlin Group, 2010-05)Copyright law is complex and subject to varying interpretations, so developing a campus-wide copyright policy can seem like a daunting task. This guide is designed to help make the process more manageable for deans, ... -
Figuring on fair use
(Wiley, 2015-07-01)How does US copyright law, and especially the doctrine of fair use, impact reusing figures drawn from a previous publication? Does it help if we redraw those figures in an attempt to evade copyright restrictions? -
Drawing the Blueprint as We Build: Setting up a Library-based Copyright & Permissions service for MOOCs
(Corporation for National Research Initiatives, 2013-07)The rapid growth of Massively Open Online Courses (MOOCs) in higher education has raised the question of what services libraries on campus can, and should, provide for these courses. One area in which librarians are ... -
Open Access and Authors' Rights Management: A Possibility for Theology?
(American Theological Library Association, 2009)Several academic disciplines have begun to understand the benefits of open access to scholarship, both for scholars and for the general public. Scientific disciplines have led the way, partially due to the nature of ... -
Curating the Controversial: The Wilcox Collection of Contemporary Political Movements, University of Kansas
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Copyright Risk Management: Principles and Strategies for Large-Scale Digitization Projects in Special Collections
(Research Library Issues: A Quarterly Report from ARL, 2012-06) -
White Paper: US Law and International Interlibrary Loan
(Research Library Issues: A Quarterly Report from ARL, 2011-06) -
Owning and Using Scholarship: An IP Handbook for Teachers and Researchers
(Association of College and Research Libraries, 2014-12-10)Copyright and other types of laws regulating intellectual property create an increasing concern for contemporary scholarship. The digital environment has created exciting new opportunities and possibilities for scholars ... -
Reason, Risk, and Reward: Models for Libraries and Other Stakeholders in an Evolving Scholarly Publishing Ecosystem
(American Anthropological Association, 2014-05)Scholarly publishing, and scholarly communication more generally, are based on patterns established over many decades and even centuries. Some of these patterns are clearly valuable and intimately related to core values ... -
Preface: The Value of Telling the Future
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Why open access? The policy environment and process on one university campus
(United Kingdom Serials Group (UKSG), 2012-11-05)When the Academic Council at Duke University adopted an open access policy in March 2010, they both enacted a legal mechanism for archiving scholarship in Duke’s institutional repository and expressed a set of values in ... -
Serving Social Justice and Pedagogical Innovation Through Open Educational Practices
(2017-03-30)Higher education promises to be a vehicle for economic and social mobility; however, this promise increasingly goes begging as our institutions are often structured to reinforce existing social inequalities. Open Educational ... -
Authority Control for Finding Aids: Changing Roles for Cataloging Staff
(2017-06-24)The University of Kansas Libraries has moved from an archival finding aid creation system that lacked authority control to ArchivesSpace, an open-source archives information management system, which has some limited authority ...