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Flexible OA Support in Academic Publishing: IGI Global's Premiere Platinum Open Access Book in Collaboration with University of North Texas

Description: Presentation presents "Handbook of Research on the Global View of Open Access and Scholarly Communications", and details chapter information.
Date: April 2022
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw; Helge, Kris; Priyanto, Ida Fajar; Beyene, Melkamu; Ford, Angela & Haynes, Brittany
Partner: UNT Libraries

Beyond Scholarly Communications: The Role of Open Access in Facilitating Digital Preservation

Description: Presentation asserts that ensuring long-term access to digital information resources is one of the key challenges facing cultural heritage intuitions today. This presentation looks broadly into the contributions that open access (OA) has made towards facilitating the preservation of data.
Date: October 2022
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw & Laughton, Paul
Partner: UNT Libraries

Extractive Automatic Text Summarization Techniques for Afaan Oromoo - Afroasiatic Language in Ethiopia

Description: Presentation describes how there is an enormous amount of textual materials, which can be difficult for humans to distil effectively. Researchers have targeted producing summaries of doctors' prescriptions, lengthy information articles. These manner readers can take advantage of quite a few records on numerous subjects inside a brief span.
Date: June 2022
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw & Moissa, Ramata
Partner: UNT Libraries

The Role of Open Access in Promoting Equitable and Human-Centered Teaching and Learning Environment: Post-Pandemic Academia

Description: Presentation discusses how the synergies of numerous emerging trends are making resource integration much easier. All these developments provide users with access to more diverse and previously unavailable content and services that span myriad technologies across institutions and nations.
Date: August 2022
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw & Laughton, Paul
Partner: UNT Libraries

Indexing in a Digital World

Description: Presentation is about how; the synergies of numerous emerging trends are making resource integration much easier and provide users with access to more diverse and previously unavailable contents and services that span myriad technologies across institutions and nations. Despite this, the ever-expanding digital information resources in the Web, has evolved without much regard to resources management and organization issues.
Date: May 2022
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Scholars Experiencing Epistemic Injustice Due to Management of Scholarly Outputs

Description: Article describes how scholars from regions outside of high-income countries experience additional barriers as active consumers, producers, and sharers of scholarly outputs. This study will examine these barriers through a lens based on critical theories, specifically those focused on epistemic injustice.
Date: October 14, 2022
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw & Ford, Angela
Partner: UNT Libraries
open access

Holistic Collection Assessment

Description: This report asserts that the UNT Libraries has been making efforts to address the vestiges of systemic oppression of socially and politically minoritized populations. The project team members conducted a survey and a focus group, and they consulted with an advisory group consisting of representatives from the library, student affairs, and the professorate.
Date: September 30, 2022
Creator: Byrne, Sephra; Harker, Karen; Leuzinger, Julie & Rich, Jack
Partner: UNT Libraries
open access

Preface [of the Handbook of Research on the Global View of Open Access and Scholarly Communications]

Description: Preface of the Handbook of Research on the Global View of Open Access and Scholarly Communications. The Handbook of Research on the Global View of Open Access and Scholarly Communications articulates OA concepts and issues while demystifying the state-of-the-art knowledge domain in the areas of OA and scholarly communications from diverse perspectives as well as implications for the information and knowledge society.
Date: April 2022
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw
Partner: UNT Libraries

Access Services 2.0 through Employee-Directed Planning

Description: Presentation discusses utilizing participatory leadership techniques such as circle practice and World Cafe´ to enhance employee involvement in organizational planning. Access Services employees were empowered to participate in setting goals, future planning, and restructuring the department. The details of the process, lessons learned, and challenges will be shared. It was presented at the 2022 Access Services Conference held in Atlanta, Georgia.
Date: November 16, 2022
Creator: Keshmiripour, Setareh & Knox, Briana
Partner: UNT Libraries

Filling the Gap: A Focus on Accessibility and Curriculum in Equipment Lending

Description: Presentation discussing the steps taken to create a new circulating collection of equipment items, from needs assessment and item selection to circulation and promotion. Best practices for cataloging, circulation, and item storage will be discussed. Presenters share a LibGuide created to enhance the discoverability of the collection and discuss decisions made about content and format. The presenters also highlight project successes, as well as some of the challenges faced and lessons learned. I… more
Date: November 16, 2022
Creator: Knox, Briana & Akers, Emily
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Creating Open Access to a Historic Newspaper from an International Port City [Article]

Description: Article exploring a collaboration between the University of North Texas' The Portal to Texas History and the Rosenberg Library to archive and provide digital, open access to Galveston's newspapers. It was published as part of the conference proceedings from 87th IFLA World Library and Information Congress (WLIC) held in 2022.
Date: July 13, 2022
Creator: Edsall, Brooke; Martino Henry, Lauren & Krahmer, Ana
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Creating a Sustainable Professional Development Program

Description: Article describing a professional development program for academic librarians at a large research university that has been operating continuously for eight years. Multiple components of the program and their related practices and procedures contribute to its longevity and continuing relevance for librarians.
Date: December 8, 2022
Creator: O'Toole, Erin; Sassen, Catherine; Willis, Shannon; Guerrero, Steven & Berg, Jeremy
Partner: UNT Libraries
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