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 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.

scholarly journals Preparing Locally Encoded Electronic Finding Aid Inventories for Union Environments: A Publishing Model for Encoded Archival Description

2008 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Plato Smith II
Keyword(s):  
Archival Description ◽  
Florida State University ◽  
State University ◽  
University Libraries ◽  
Metadata Standard ◽  
New Developments ◽  
Finding Aids

This paper will briefly discuss encoded archival description (EAD) finding aids, the workflow and process involved in encoding finding aids using EAD metadata standard, our institution’s current publishing model for EAD finding aids, current EAD metadata enhancement, and new developments in our publishing model for EAD finding aids at Florida State University Libraries. For brevity and within the scope of this paper, FSU Libraries will be referred to as FSU, electronic EAD finding and/or archival finding aid will be referred as EAD or EADs, and locally encoded electronic EAD finding aids inventories will be referred to as EADs @ FSU.

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.

scholarly journals DttP Meeting Summaries

2017 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 31
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Psyck
Keyword(s):  
Florida State University ◽  
State University ◽  
University Libraries ◽  
Research Award ◽  
The People ◽  
Government Documents ◽  
Research Grant

The GODORT Awards Committee congratulates the winners of its 2017 awards (http://wikis.ala.org/godort/index.php/Announcing_the_2017_GODORT_Awards_Winners):James Bennett Childs Award: Judith RussellProQuest/GODORT/ALA “Documents to the People” Award: Florida State University Libraries Government Documents Depository and Mohamed BerrayBernadine Abbott Hoduski Founders Award: Philip (Phil) YannarellaMargaret T. Lane/Virginia F. Saunders Memorial Research Award: Sarah Potvin and Laura SareNewsBank/Readex/GODORT/ALA Catharine J. Reynolds Research Grant: Hayley Johnson and Sarah SimmsW. David Rozkuszka Scholarship: Stephani RodgersLarry Romans Mentorship Award: Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe

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 An annotated bibliography of Digital Scholarship in libraries

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carolyn Moritz
Keyword(s):  
Annotated Bibliography ◽  
Florida State University ◽  
State University ◽  
University Libraries ◽  
Digital Scholarship ◽  
Scholarly Communications ◽  
Digital Research

This annotated bibliography is to be taken both as a standalone resource and as a supplement to De-Centering and Recentering Digital Scholarship: A Manifesto by authors from Florida State University Libraries Office of Digital Research and Scholarship. The manifesto serves as the culmination of an ongoing conversation surrounding the work behind digital scholarship, scholarly communications, invisible labor, and the role of the library and the librarian within it. This bibliography, divided into Definitions of Digital Scholarship, Digital Scholarship in Practice, and Critical and Progressive Librarianship, provides a collaborative snapshot of many of the voices which have informed our theories and practices.

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