Open-Access Monograph Publishing and the Origins of the Office of Digital Scholarly Publishing at Penn State University

2015 ◽  
Vol 46 (3) ◽  
pp. 203-223
Author(s):  
Sanford G. Thatcher
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Scholarly Publishing ◽  
State University ◽  
Penn State

Mindscape Commons

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 28-34
Author(s):  
Kevin McDonough
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Open Access ◽  
Counseling Psychology ◽  
Health Sciences ◽  
State University ◽  
Work Content ◽  
Head Mounted Displays ◽  
Penn State ◽  
Valuable Content

Developed by Coherent Digital, Mindscape Commons provides a platform for VR content relating to the health sciences, counseling, psychology, and social work. Content is either commercial, Open Access, research based, or exclusively developed by Coherent Digital. The VR experiences are available as 180/360 videos or animations, visible within a browser screen, through dedicated head mounted displays (HMD) from Oculus, and smartphones in conjunction with Google Cardboard. Experiences can be searched, browsed, and accessed from Mindscape Commons’ website and there are abundant filters to refine your results. The most valuable content is related to counseling simulations and was developed by Coherent Digital in conjunction with Mercer University and Penn State University. Being able to view content within HMDs is somewhat tricky, but the feeling of immersion and realism is greater. Pricing is reasonable considering the marketplace for educational VR content, and the number of experiences is expected to grow.

scholarly journals Strategic Reinvestments of Journal Packages at the Pennsylvania State University

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mihoko Hosoi
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Organizational Strategy ◽  
Institutional Repository ◽  
State University ◽  
University Libraries ◽  
Pennsylvania State University ◽  
Penn State ◽  
The Face ◽  
Strategy Changes ◽  
Near Future

In the face of budget challenges, organizational strategy changes, and the new open access (OA) policy, the Pennsylvania State University Libraries (PSUL) are reevaluating negotiations and collections of ‘big deal’ journal packages. While a growing number of libraries are considering cancelling subscriptions to ‘big deals’, PSUL has been taking a careful approach in containing cost and making sure that faculty and students have access to resources that they need. Current efforts include: renegotiating ‘big deals’; cancelling low value titles in title-by-title agreements; obtaining single agreements for the entire Penn State; promoting green OA for future subscription negotiation purposes; and renegotiating OA related licensing terms. To achieve greater efficiency of acquisitions workflows and increase university-wide purchasing power, reallocation of the collection budget will be discussed in the near future. Auto deposit of accepted manuscripts from any Penn State author into ScholarSphere, Penn State’s institutional repository, as well as exploration of other OA models are also under consideration.

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