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- Achieving Financial Sustainability: Are We Asking the Wrong Questions?
- While technology has made producing copies of digital content almost entirely free, there is no escaping that publishing, according to most definitions of the term, still requires time and money. Any publishing service offered by a library must find a way to achieve financial sustainability—that is, operate without losing money. However, even "losing money" is a tricky concept, especially when taking into account varying definitions of operating expenses (overhead costs) under different models for auxiliary services. Libraries are by their very nature cost centers, providing services without the expectation of recovering revenue, and are usually part of larger organizations that similarly provide services under partial or full subsidies. While libraries are often comfortable with charging for convenience services and for services to those outside their designed community of users, careful thought should be given to which costs a publishing service-or any new service-should be expected to recover.
- Data: What do we need, and what do we do with it once we have it?
- This presentation discusses how to find and evaluate a quality data resource, and the process of building data expertise and service models for students, faculty, and librarians.
- Promoting Excellent Service: Establishing Core Competencies in Training Student Employees
- This presentation provides an overview of the University of North Texas Libraries Access Services training plan for student employees.
- Charting New Territory: Mapping the UNT Libraries Collections
- Presentation given at the Cross Timbers Library Collaborative (CTLC) Conference on July 22, 2016. This presentation describes the components and creation of the Collection Map, a collection assessment tool developed by the University of North Texas.
- Evaluation of a Bestsellers Leasing Program in an Academic Library
- This presentation provides an overview of the University of North Texas Libraries assessment of a book leasing program for popular fiction and non-fiction items.
- Making MINES for Libraries Work for Your Library
- This presentation provides an overview of the use of MINES for Libraries® at the University of North Texas Libraries.
- OA Monographs: The Cost of Creating Them Today To Make Them Open For Tomorrow
- This presentation contains findings from a 2015 Mellon-funded study to understand the costs of publishing monographs, and their next steps in building a tool to estimate publishing costs.
- Sustaining OA with Publishing Cooperatives
- This presentation reports on the MacArthur-funded Open Access Publishing Cooperative Study, which is investigating the viability of publishing cooperatives through an examination of pilot projects in Africa, Canada, and the United States.
- SHARE in Open Science and Open Access
- This presentation contains an overview of SHARE, an open dataset repository to track research projects across the research lifecycle.
- Live-Streaming OA at University of California Press: Lessons Learned, and How the Landscape Has Already Changed
- This presentation discusses where scholarly publishing is headed, what is happening in open-access and library publishing, and how they can support alternatives to commercial publishing.
- Fair Open Access: A Roadmap
- This presentation provides a model for flipping subscription journals to Open Access using Linguistics in Open Access (LingOA) as an example.
- Open Minds But Closed Access. Why Are There So Few Gold Open Access LIS Journals? And Why Are So Many Librarians Unwilling To Unlock Their Scholarship?
- This presentation contains an evaluation of the open access availability of library and information science literature.
- Improving Openness of Scholarly Communication
- This presentation contains an overview of the Open Science Framework as a free, open scholarly commons.
- Why Science is Better with Communism? The Case of Sci-Hub
- This presentation will discuss why intellectual property rights, in the form of copyright law, are contradictory to science as an enterprise, and will draw on the example of Sci-Hub.
- Evaluation of Online-Only Journal Quality from Analysis of Email Solicitations
- This presentation contains an analysis of ~600 solicitation emails related to 317 scholarly journals received within a one-year period to assess the quality of publishing venues available.
- Broadening Access to Books on Texas and Oklahoma
- This overview of the grant-funded project was given as a lightning-round presentation during the panel "Giving New Life to Old Books: The NEH/Mellon Humanities Open Book Program" at the 2016 annual meeting of the Association of American University Presses.
- Copyright and Publication Agreements: Who Owns Your Work?
- Presentation for the 2010 Open Access Symposium discussing ownership as interpreted by copyright and publication agreements.
- Advancing Open Access Through Digital Services
- Presentation for the 2010 Open Access Symposium discussing digital services using Georgia Tech University as a case study.
- Open Access Publishing: Benefits, Challenges and Experiences
- Presentation for the 2010 Open Access Symposium provides an overview of open access publishing as a whole and BioMed Central as an open access publisher.
- Disruptive Transformations and Open Access
- Presentation for the 2010 Open Access Symposium discussing disruptions in how information is valued due to changing mediums and distribution models.
- GIS Trends and Open Access
- Presentation for the 2016 Open Access Symposium discussing Geographic Information Systems (GIS) software and data in relation to open access initiatives.
- Voyages: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database -- A Case Study in Transitioning to Open Access
- Presentation for the 2010 Open Access Symposium using the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database as a case study for transitioning research to an open access model.
- Unique Library Services for Graduate Students: Support Over the Graduate Lifecycle
- This presentation provides an overview of the University of North Texas Libraries' Library Research Support Services department and its work to support the graduate student life cycle.
- Is Open Access the New Normal?
- Presentation for the 2010 Open Access Symposium discussing the prevalence of open access resources and policies.
- Open Access: An STM Journal Publisher's Perspective
- Presentation for the 2010 Open Access Symposium discussing a commercial publisher's operations and perspective on open access
- The Research University Imperative to Distribute Scholarly Materials
- Presentation for the 2010 Open Access Symposium discussing the benefits of an active faculty role in distributing research through the institutional repository.
- Succession Planning Through Mentoring in the Library
- This presentation discusses succession planning through mentoring, including an overview of survey results with a special focus on succession planning and mentoring within academic libraries.
- Designing the Optimal Open Access Mandate
- Presentation for the 2010 Open Access Symposium addressing multiple issues involved in developing a university open access policy.
- Rescuing Texas History at The Portal to Texas History
- This presentation provides an overview of the Rescuing Texas History Program, in which University of North Texas Libraries partners with external organizations to preserve at-risk materials.
- Envisioning a Geospatial Data Portal and Curation Network
- This presentation is part of the panel "Envisioning a Geospatial Data Portal and Curation Network" from the 2016 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries and contains a brief overview on the GIS data and services provided by the University of North Texas.
- Working Together to Get It For Them: ILL and Document Delivery at the UNT Libraries
- This presentation provides an overview of the document delivery process for UNT Libraries. Slides include reorganization of process to include use of ILLiad. Presented at the 2016 OCLC ILLiad International Conference.
- So We Have a Brand, Now What?: Modernizing and Marketing an Ask Us Service at an Academic Library
- This presentation provides an overview of the redesign of reference services at UNT Libraries using brand research and marketing strategies.
- Extending the TAM2 Model: Card Swiping and Academic Librarians
- Presentation discusses use of Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) and its extended modified TAM2 Model to examine pre- and post-implementation factors in adopting card swiping for libraries.
- Assessing an Academic Library Professional Development Program
- This presentation discusses assessment methods for UNT Libraries' professional development program.
- The Case for a Publishing Analytics Data Alliance
- Digital technology is making it possible for publishers and libraries to gather data on the dissemination and use of scholarly publications in unprecedented detail and on an unprecedented scale. While data arising from the digital distribution of content provides new opportunities for understanding the scholarly communication ecosystem, it also creates socio-technical challenges for understanding how scholarly content is shared and used across networked knowledge landscapes. Libraries and institutions will require the context that aggregate data can provide to effectively use the data they collect, but they will be unable to create this context alone. This risks leaving the collection of data in the hands of a small number of well-resourced organizations—likely commercial—that do not answer to the community. The proposed Publishing Analytics Data Alliance will serve as a cooperative in which representatives from all of the relevant academic publishing stakeholder groups (academic publishers, research libraries, research centers, and aggregators) collaborate to address the socio-technical challenges around publishing analytics: developing a data model, workflows, and prototype for aggregation and display of usage data relating to digital monographs, and creating an accompanying code of ethics and terms of use for data gathering, analysis, and dissemination by members.
- The Whole Picture - One Library's Assessment Activities
- This presentation provides an overview of UNT's assessment activities in preparation for a new library strategic plan and campus SACS reaccreditation.
- DIY API: A Sierra-Based, Homegrown Catalog API
- This presentation provides an overview of the development process for building a local API using Sierra catalog data. This overview includes a discussion of terms, history of the project, and example applications.
- Libraries: Rethinking Roles, Rethinking Spaces
- Presentation for 2015 Higher Education Technology Forum put on by the North Texas Community College Consortium. This presentation discusses the UNT Libraries' evolution in relation to technology.
- Transforming an Academic Library to a Community Partner
- Presentation about ways that have been utilized to promote access to resources found at UNT Libraries. The presentation also includes a brief history of UNT Libraries' collections and ways to engage with the community. This presentation was shown at the 2015 Depository Library Council Meeting and Federal Depository Library Conference.
- Managing Change Through Teamwork: UNT Libraries' Transition to Access-Based Collection Development
- Presentation contains information on University of North Texas Libraries' move to increase access-based collection development. The presentation includes a plan that will increase collaboration between internal and external library employees in order to prevent the furthering of silos between Public Services and Technical Services. The presentation also mentions tips on structure, implementation tools, organization, and information sharing. This presentation was given at the Cross Timbers Library Collaborative Conference on Friday, August 7th, 2015.
- More Than Just a Job: Student Employee Success in Academic Libraries
- Presentation describes how being a student assistant at UNT Libraries impacted Holly Dolan. The presentation also includes perspectives from other student workers, as well as advice on how to improve library programs to ensure the success of student workers. This presentation was shown at the 2015 Texas Library Association Annual Conference.
- Just-in-Time: Redefining Your Collection Development Philosophy
- Presentation given at the Texas Library Association (TLA) Annual Conference in April 2015. The presentation centers on the University of North Texas Libraries, highlighting their issues in collection development, and steps that were taken to combat those issues. This presentation also displays information on UNT Libraries' "ABCD" Philosophy or Access-Based Collection Development Philosophy. Additionally, the implementation of a new plan, the evaluation of the plan, the challenges, and benefits are all outlined.
- Providing Innovative Access in Delivery Services at UNT Libraries
- Presentation given at the Cross Timbers Library Collaborative (CTLC) Conference on August 7, 2015. This presentation explains the delivery services available at UNT Libraries and innovations that has been made to benefit patrons.
- Multiplying by Division: Mapping the Collection at University of North Texas Libraries
- Presentation given at the Charleston Conference on November 7, 2015 This presentation focuses on the University of North Texas Libraries' Collection Map, a collection assessment tool used to provide additional data and increased flexibility. The presentation centers on "an assessment-based future" for UNT Libraries and details an improved system in which collections are proactively assessed.
- The Unknown Path - Evaluating Electronic Resources for Access-Based Collection Development
- Presentation evaluates different electronic resources for access-based collection development. The presentation covers trials and feedback from librarians, as well as the pros and cons of different access-based models. This presentation was shown at the 2015 Charleston Conference: Issues in Book and Serial Acquisition.
- Digitizing Multilingual Newspapers for NDNP Grants
- Presentation gives information on how to digitize multilingual newspapers for National Digital Newspaper Program Grants. It includes steps that should be take prior to and after digitization. This presentation was given at the 2015 National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) Awardee Conference at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. on September 17, 2015.
- Digital Repository: Promoting Scholarship via the convergence of (local/global and digital/analogue) contents
- Presentation at Jimma University discussing digital repositories and promoting scholarship through the convergence of local/global and digital/analogue contents.
- Exploratory Analysis of Metadata Edit Events in the UNT Libraries' Digital Collections [Presentation]
- Presentation for the 2015 Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) Annual Conference. This presentation discusses an exploratory analysis of metadata edit events in the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries' digital collections.
- An Exploratory Analysis of Subject Metadata in the Digital Public Library of America [Presentation]
- Presentation for the 2015 Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) Annual Conference. This presentation discusses an exploratory analysis of subject metadata in the Digital Public Library of America.
- UNT Libraries Digital Infrastructure: Behind the Scenes
- Presentation for the 2015 ARMA Annual Conference. This presentation discusses the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries' digital infrastructure.