scholarly journals On passing an open access policy at Florida State University: From outreach to implementation

2017 ◽  
Vol 78 (8) ◽  
pp. 432
Author(s):  
Devin Soper
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
The United States ◽  
Florida State University ◽  
State University ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Access Policy ◽  
Open Questions ◽  
Research Organizations ◽  
Implementation Models ◽  
Long Term Impact

In February 2016, the Florida State University (FSU) Faculty Senate passed an institutional Open Access (OA) Policy by unanimous vote,1 following the lead of many public and private universities across the United States. This was the culmination of many years of outreach and advocacy by OA champions at FSU, with a diverse, talented team of faculty and librarians making significant contributions along the way. This was also just one instance of a growing trend across North America and globally, with impressive growth in the number of OA policies and mandates adopted by research organizations and funders over the past decade. The adoption of an OA policy still presents many challenges with respect to policy compliance,2 and there are open questions about the long-term impact of different OA policy requirements and implementation models.3 At the same time, OA policy adoption remains an important goal for many institutions, a symbolic affirmation of faculty support for the principles of OA. An OA policy can help an institution raise the profile of its institutional repository (IR), invigorate outreach efforts and content recruitment, and, in the case of Harvard Model policies, safeguard the author rights of its faculty.4

scholarly journals What Is an Institutional Repository to Do? Implementing Open Access Harvesting Workflows

Publications ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel Smart
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Faculty Participation ◽  
Institutional Repository ◽  
Florida State University ◽  
State University ◽  
Participation Rates ◽  
Access Policy ◽  
Article Deposit ◽  
Real Change

In 2016, Florida State University adopted an institutional Open Access policy, and the library staff were tasked with implementing an outreach plan to contact authors and collect publication post-prints. In 2018, I presented at Open Repositories in Bozeman to share our workflow, methods, and results with the repository community. This workflow utilizes both restricted and open source methods of obtaining and creating research metadata and reaching out to authors to make their work more easily accessible and citable. Currently, post-print deposits added using this workflow are still in the double digits for each year since 2016. Like many institutions before us, participation rates of article deposit in the institutional repository are low and it may be too early in the implementation of this workflow to expect a real change in faculty participation.

Campus Press, Inc.: A critical analysis of the corporatization of collegiate media

Journalism ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 12 (8) ◽  
pp. 1018-1034
Author(s):  
Thomas F Corrigan ◽  
Jennifer M Proffitt
Keyword(s):  
The United States ◽  
Florida State University ◽  
State University ◽  
Corporate Ownership ◽  
University Of Central Florida ◽  
Central Florida ◽  
Corporate Ownership Structure ◽  
Student Newspapers ◽  
The University

This article examines the corporatization of collegiate media in the United States. Gannett Company, Inc.’s purchase of two university publications, the FSView & Florida Flambeau ( FSView) at Florida State University and the Central Florida Future at the University of Central Florida, have raised concerns regarding the autonomy of the campus press. This article first defines the functions and structures of the campus press and how each contribute to the normative goals and democratic potential of collegiate student newspapers. The article goes on to argue that a corporate ownership structure, despite the alluring rhetoric espoused by corporate media, meets the needs of advertisers and shareholders, not the communities the campus press should serve. Gannett’s purchase of the FSView is examined in depth because it provides a revealing case study of the underlying interests that corporations such as Gannett have in collegiate media.

scholarly journals Institutional Repository Access Policy: A Case Study in State University of Malang Library

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 25
Author(s):  
Dwi Novita Ernaningsih
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Document Analysis ◽  
Institutional Repository ◽  
State University ◽  
Case Study Method ◽  
Barriers To Adoption ◽  
Access Policy ◽  
Library Users ◽  
The University

This article discusses about access policy to institutional repository in State University of Malang Library. This study aims to analize access policy and accessibility to institutional repository, barriers to adoption of open access, as well as the views of stakeholders to open access institutional repository. The method used is the case study method with qualitative approach. Data was collected by observation, interviews, and document analysis. The result shows that the resistance and disagreement among the stakeholders toward open access institutional repository affect the access policy and accessibility to institutional repository. In protecting academic work, access restrictions which is explicitly does not have legality is applied. The access restriction affects users and visibility of institution. It generates complaints from library users most of whom are digital generation. The restriction also declines the university rank in Webometrics.

scholarly journals What’s behind OA2020? Accelerating the transition to open access with introspection and repurposing funds

2018 ◽  
Vol 79 (2) ◽  
pp. 85
Author(s):  
Rachael Samberg ◽  
Richard A. Schneider ◽  
Anneliese Taylor ◽  
Michael Wolfe
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Open Access ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
The United States ◽  
California State University ◽  
University Of California ◽  
State University ◽  
Scholarly Journals ◽  
International Effort

In 2017, four University of California (UC) campuses took a public stance on accelerating the transition to open access (OA) by endorsing the Open Access 2020 (OA2020) initiative’s Expression of Interest (EOI). OA2020 is an international effort to convert the existing corpus of scholarly journals from subscription-based access to OA. In March 2017, when the first three UC campuses—UC-Berkeley, UC-Davis, and UC-San Francisco—endorsed,1,2 there had been only one U.S. signatory institution (California State University-Northridge, having endorsed in July 2016). Six months later in September 2017, another UC campus, Merced, added its affirmation. As of this writing, these five California universities remain the only OA2020 EOI signatories from the United States.3

scholarly journals Open access policy guidelines by the MedOANet project: Facilitating open access policy development in Mediterranean Europe

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandros Nafpliotis ◽  
Victoria Tsoukala ◽  
Vasso Kalatizi
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Policy Development ◽  
National Level ◽  
Access Network ◽  
Early Spring ◽  
Access Policy ◽  
Task Forces ◽  
Research Organizations ◽  
Funded Project ◽  
Access Policies

See video of the presentation.Toward the end of the two-year EC-funded project Mediterranean Open Access Network (MedOANet; www.medoanet.eu) this presentation offers a summary of its activities and specifically focuses on the culminating outcome of the project,  the guidelines for policy development, directed to research performing organizations and research funders in six countries: Greece, Italy, Turkey, France, Spain and Portugal. The guidelines are to be released in English in all six languages of the project partners in September 2013.Purpose of the project is to support and strengthen coordinated policy development among funders and research organizations of the six countries (www.medoanet.eu). For two years the project has enabled open access policy developments through activities at the national level, such as the development of task forces and national conferences that brought together major stakeholders and policymakers, as well as regional developments through a European workshop in Braga, Portugal in early spring 2013. The project has, further, mapped the open access policy situation in the six countries, the results of which are to be published in the early fall 2013. Three surveys carried in six countries among research funders, research performing organizations and publishers demonstrate that the momentum towards open access requires specific policy actions to actually render publicly funded research openly accessible to all.The guidelines under preparation by the project discuss the key principles and processes to be followed by funding and research performing organizations in establishing open access policies, highlighting the most important steps necessary in defining and implementing effective policies. Significantly, they also offer model policies for research funders and research performing organizations. The model policies have been elaborated on the basis of current models and recent relevant developments, and emphasize mandatory green open access. The proposed presentation will discuss their components in detail. The effect of the guidelines and model policies are eagerly awaited and already expected to be significant as a number of institutions in Greece and other countries are discussing adopting them together.

scholarly journals Study Paths, Riemann Surfaces And Strebel Differentials

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Buser ◽  
Klaus-Dieter Semmler
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
School System ◽  
Riemann Surfaces ◽  
Conformal Geometry ◽  
The United States ◽  
Florida State University ◽  
State University ◽  
Surface Theory ◽  
The University ◽  
Study Behaviour

These pages aim to explain and interpret why the late Mika Seppälä, a conformal geometer, proposed to model student study behaviour using concepts from conformal geometry, such as Riemann surfaces and Strebel differentials. Over many years Mika Seppälä taught online calculus courses to students at Florida State University in the United States, as well as students at the University of Helsinki in Finland. Based on the click log data of his students in both populations, he monitored this course using edge-decorated graphs, which he gradually improved over the years. To enhance this representation even further, he suggested using tools and geometric intuition from Riemann surface theory. He also was inspired by the much-envied Finnish school system. Bringing these two sources of inspiration together resulted in a promising new representation model for course monitoring. Even though the authors have not been directly involved in Mika Seppälä’s courses, being conformal geometers themselves, they attempt to shed some light on his proposed approach.

scholarly journals Negotiating big deals: ACRL/SPARC Forum at the 2020 ALA Midwinter Meeting

2020 ◽  
Vol 81 (7) ◽  
pp. 341
Author(s):  
Gale S. Etschmaier ◽  
Robin N. Sinn ◽  
Jason Priem
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Florida State University ◽  
State University ◽  
University Libraries ◽  
Johns Hopkins University

At the ACRL/SPARC Forum at the 2020 ALA Midwinter Meeting in Philadelphia, three panelists discussed efforts to negotiate with vendors regarding “Big Deal” journal packages, including strategies and information that make such negotiations more effective for libraries. The three panelists provide their remarks below. Gale Etschmaier recounts negotiations between the Florida State University Libraries and Elsevier that led to the successful cancellation of their Elsevier “Big Deal.” Robin Sinn summarizes open access efforts at the Johns Hopkins University Libraries. And, finally, Jason Priem discusses his company’s product Unsub, a “data dashboard that helps libraries forecast, explore, and optimize their alternatives to the Big Deal, so they can unsubscribe with confidence.”

scholarly journals Interview with Professor Donald C. Kiraly

2019 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 212-218
Author(s):  
Marileide Dias Esqueda
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
The United States ◽  
International Studies ◽  
Florida State University ◽  
State University ◽  
University Of Illinois ◽  
The University ◽  
Translator Education ◽  
E Mail ◽  
Social Constructivist Approach

This interview was carried out in September 2019, via e-mail, with Donald C. Kiraly, Professor at the Johannes Gutenberg-Universität School of Translation, Linguistics and Cultural Studies, located in Mainz, Germany. Donald C. Kiraly studied Political Science at Cleveland State University in Ohio, obtained his M.A. in International Relations at Florida State University, and a Ph.D. at the University of Illinois, in the United States. He was a visiting professor at the Monterey Institute of International Studies in Monterey, California, and from September 2008 to August 2012, he held a visiting professor's position at the Ecole Supérieure d'Interprètes et Traducteurs of the University of Paris III, in France, where he taught French-English, Spanish-English and German-English translation. Among his main works dedicated to translator education are Pathways to translation (1995), Social Constructivist Approach to Translator Education (2000) and Towards Authentic Experiential Learning in Translator Education (2016). Professor Don Kiraly provides several important contributions in the following interview on the topic "evaluation of translations".

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