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Sam Dodd deposited Stories Not Statistics: An Autoethnographical & Narrative Exploration of the Value of Public Libraries in the group
CityLIS on Humanities Commons 4 years, 2 months agoPublic libraries in the United Kingdom have faced significant closures since the introduction of austerity in 2010, with this trend predicted to continue. The current tools used to measure the value of UK libraries are crude, insufficient and grounded in competitive market values that focus on numbers. Better methods are needed to capture and…[Read more]
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Peter Suber replied to the topic OA through the lenses of equity and inclusion in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 4 years, 2 months agoHi Kevin. Thanks for linking to the OATP tag library for “oa.dei”.
FYI, here’s the OATP tag library for the conjunction “oa.dei AND oa.publishers”:
http://tagteam.harvard.edu/hubs/oatp/item_search?q=%23oa.dei+%23oa.publishers
OATP supports deep links like this to any boolean combination of tags. If you write me directly (peter.suber@gmail.com)…[Read more]
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Ronald Snijder replied to the topic OA through the lenses of equity and inclusion in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 4 years, 2 months agoThis is a rather old article, but might be useful:
Do developing countries profit from free books? : Discovery and online usage in developed and developing countries compared
Journal of Electronic Publishing 2013-11 | journal-article DOI: 10.3998/3336451.0016.103 -
Kevin Hawkins replied to the topic OA through the lenses of equity and inclusion in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 4 years, 2 months agoJohn, you might mine http://tagteam.harvard.edu/hubs/oatp/tag/oa.dei for useful sources. I wish you could browse OATP by more than one tag at a time (all “oa.dei” and “oa.publishers”, for example), but I can’t figure out a way to do that. Happy digging!
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John Sherer started the topic OA through the lenses of equity and inclusion in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 4 years, 2 months agoColleagues,
The Association of University Presses is compiling resources (articles, research data, tool kits) to help look at our industry through the lenses of equity, justice, and inclusion. To that end, I’m looking for any research articles on OA that take that approach. I have found a helpful article from Roz Pyne and others called…[Read more]
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Leah Perry deposited Substance and Style: Understanding Personal Style’s Influence on Information Behaviour and the Provision of Subject-Specific Information Services in the group
CityLIS on Humanities Commons 4 years, 2 months agoThis essay will explore the impact personal style has on information behaviour, with
particular reference to information seeking and subsequent information searching, and to
what extent personal style is related to academic subject choice. Through this exploration,
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Leah Perry deposited The Future is Wiki: National Libraries’ Wikidata Projects and the Culture of Connection in the group
CityLIS on Humanities Commons 4 years, 2 months agoLibraries and information services have long since been champions of equitable access to
information. As the popularity of open access grows, the GLAM (Galleries, Libraries,
Archives and Museums) sector investigates how to further develop their service and enrich
their collections through knowledge collaboration. With the increased…[Read more] -
Leah Perry deposited Bookish Identities: How the Online Reading Community Empowers the Self in the group
CityLIS on Humanities Commons 4 years, 2 months agoThe pervasiveness and increasing usage of digital technologies and information
communication technologies (ICTs) influences not only how we view the world around us,
but how we view ourselves. We are plugged in to an incessant stream of information and
networked to other informational entities – or inforgs (Floridi, 2010) – and in order to…[Read more] -
Agata Morka deposited OA Books Workouts, episode 1. Interview with Janneke Adema. in the group
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 4 years, 3 months agoThis interview is one of the outputs of the online series OA Books Workouts: Scholars at Work, a project of the Open Access Books Network. The aim of the series is to share good practices regarding the writing, production, and technicalities of publishing an open access book.
The Open Access Books Network is an open network for anyone…[Read more]
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Mehreen Khalid deposited The Ethics of Open Science in the group
CityLIS on Humanities Commons 4 years, 3 months agoIntroduction: Open Science (OS) is a movement within the field of science to enable the free accessibility of honestly generated and truthful scientific research possessing the capabilities of reproducibility and re-use with the input of and benefit for all stakeholders of science. Purpose: The purpose of this masters dissertation it to…[Read more]
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Tim Coppen deposited How have lockdown measures affected library services and usage, and what changes to library services should be carried forward to the “new normal”? A case study of the libraries at City, University of London. in the group
CityLIS on Humanities Commons 4 years, 3 months agoBackground: COVID-19 has changed many aspects of life and work and meant altering or developing new processes to meet those changes and continue to deliver services. This has also been the case within academic libraries, who although were already largely shifting towards digital collections, found they had to continue to deliver services to…[Read more]
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Leah Perry deposited The City and the Country: How Do Public Libraries and Specialist Information Services Differ in their LGBTQ+ Information and Service Provision in Rural versus Urban Areas of England? in the group
CityLIS on Humanities Commons 4 years, 3 months agoPublic libraries, while providing a standardised general service, are often tailored to the communities they serve. This relies on the visibility and understanding of social groups within the local population. Across the country, the social, cultural, political, and historical local contexts influence the size and/or prominence of the LGBTQ+…[Read more]
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Lucy Barnes replied to the topic Job ads section for OA books in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 4 years, 3 months agoExciting opportunity — the University of Dundee are recruiting for an exceptional individual to join us as a Publishing Officer (Scottish Universities Open Access Press) within our Research and Resources Division, LLC&CI to implement a new Open Access University Press for Scotland:…[Read more]
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Pablo Markin started the topic Open Access, Publishing Market Transformations in the discussion
Open Access Books Network via email on Humanities Commons 4 years, 3 months agoDear All,
The emergence of Open Access might be approached not only as a consequence of differentiation dynamics in the publishing market, but also as a likely response to the multidimensional contradictions and cross-cutting global pressures this market demonstrates:…[Read more]
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Lucy Barnes replied to the topic Job ads section for OA books in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 4 years, 3 months agoThis job application window has been extended — OBP are still looking for a software engineer, so please share far and wide!
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Fernando Heredia-Sánchez deposited Innovación y alfabetización mediática e informacional (AMI) en bibliotecas. Recursos, propuestas y tendencias in the group
CityLIS on Humanities Commons 4 years, 3 months agoStarting from a review of the recent bibliography, we reflect on the role of libraries in promoting innovation. Training in media, informational and digital competencies is considered as a playing field in which librarians, educators and Administration have to come together, contributing their experience from complementary perspectives. Based on…[Read more]
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