Open Access Week 2012 at the University of Utah  

October 23-25, 2012

How do readers find and get access to published research results? And what makes them likely to download and cite papers? Does it depend on researchers’ publishing choices and how do those choices differ among disciplines? These questions and more will be explored during the 4th annual Open Access Week at the University of Utah. This year’s keynote address will provide insight into the world of scholarly communications and will include a panel of University of Utah authors who will share their experiences publishing in open access journals and how it affected their readership. And don’t miss the workshop on how to make your research article visible as well as a presentation on the University of Utah’s online collection of research material created by faculty, staff, and students.

Free and Open to the Public.

Schedule of Events

Tuesday, October 23

Workshop

Publishing SMART: How to Make Your Article Visible

Authors want their scholarly articles to be seen, cited and utilized. This class provides opportunities for researchers to increase their visibility by exploring various publishing and archiving choices. Tools for evaluating journal impact factors, online usage, local online availability, retaining copyrights, and submission to online archives are covered.

Wednesday, October 24

Keynote Address and Panel Discussion

Dr. Bollen is associate professor at the Indiana University School of Informatics and Computing. He was formerly a staff scientist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory from 2005-2009, and an Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science of Old Dominion University from 2002 to 2005. He obtained his PhD in Experimental Psychology from the University of Brussels in 2001 on the subject of cognitive models of human hypertext navigation. He has taught courses on Data Mining, Information Retrieval and Digital Libraries. His research has been funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, National Science Foundation, Library of Congress, National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the Los Alamos National Laboratory. His present research interests are usage data mining, computational sociometrics, informetrics, and digital libraries. He has extensively published on these subjects as well as matters relating to adaptive information systems architecture. He is presently the Principal Investigator of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-funded MESUR project which aims to expand the quantitative tools available for the assessment of scholarly impact.

Mr. Schonfeld leads the research efforts at Ithaka S+R, including examinations of the impact of new technologies on academia through studies of faculty attitudes and practices, teaching and learning with technology, and the changing role of the library. Key projects at Ithaka S+R that Roger has led include the Ithaka S+R Faculty Survey; projects on the changing research methods and practices of faculty members in fields such as history and chemistry; studies of the impact and sustainability of courseware initiatives; the Ithaka S+R Library Survey of deans and directors; a number of projects on library strategy, economics, and collections analysis, with a particular emphasis on digitization, management, and preservation of library collections, culminating in What to Withdraw for scholarly journals and two national consulting projects regarding government documents on behalf of ARL/COSLA and GPO. Roger has served on theNSF Blue Ribbon Task Force for Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access and the Western Regional Storage Trust’s advisory committee. Previously, Roger was a research associate at The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. There, he collaborated on The Game of Life: College Sports and Academic Values with James Shulman and William G. Bowen (Princeton University Press, 2000). He also wrote JSTOR: A History(Princeton University Press, 2003), focusing on the development of a sustainable not-for-profit business model for the digitization and preservation of scholarly texts.

Thursday, October 25

Presentation

USpace at Seven: Shaping and Sustaining the U’s Institutional Repository

During Open Access Week 2010, we celebrated USpace’s fifth birthday. Two years have flown by. Come and hear how the University of Utah’s open access digital repository has continued to develop and grow. Presenters will discuss recent projects, new content development streams, and areas of future growth.

tags: open access

by allysonmower Open Access Week 2011 at the University of Utah                                                   

October 24-27, 2011

The 3rd annual Open Access Week at the University of Utah brings an exciting line-up of events to campus from a keynote address to a hands-on workshop about mashup skills from the renowned Donald Duck Meets Glenn Beck creator to a panel of experts about digital textbooks. As digital technology and content proliferate, questions of access, copyright, and fair use come to the surface. The week’s events offer an opportunity to explore these new areas of creativity, scholarship, and technology.

Free and Open to the Public.

Schedule of Events

Monday, October 24

Keynote address

LIVE STREAM

Hacking Pop Culture with Remix Video 

Jonathan McIntosh, Rebellious Pixels
11:00 am-12:00 pm, Marriott Library, Gould Auditorium

sponsored by the Department of Communication & the J. Willard Marriott Library

Jonathan McIntosh, a self-proclaimed pop culture hacker, is a video remix artist, new media teacher, fair use activist, and blogger. Best known for his video “Donald Duck Meets Glenn Beck,” Jonathan uses mass media to tell new and different stories grounded in popular culture. As he says it, “Basically I’m a pop culture hacker, but instead of computer code I hack television.” Check out Jonathan’s work at Rebellious Pixels

Tuesday, October 25

Film: rip! Remix Manifesto 

11:30 am to 1 pm, Marriott Library, Gould Auditorium

Workshop: How to Remix and Reuse

presenter: Jonathon McIntosh
1:00-3:00 pm, Marriott Library, Room 1008 (Mac Computer Lab)

register here

sponsored by the Department of Communication & the J. Willard Marriott Library

Interested in learning simple video remixing tools, tricks and techniques? This workshop will present an overview of online and offline remixing apps as well as provide hands-on experience in how to download videos from the web and convert them into easily editable formats. Jonathan will also cover the best practices of fair use when it comes to using copyrighted material in your own work.

Wednesday, October 26

Thursday, October 27

Workshop: Publishing SMART

Authors want their scholarly articles to be seen, cited and utilized. This class provides opportunities for researchers to increase their visibility by exploring various publishing and archiving choices. Tools for evaluating journal impact factors, online usage, local online availability, retaining copyrights, and submission to online archives are covered.

The Marriott Library has teamed up with faculty from the University of Utah’s Entertainment Arts and Engineering Master Games Studio to present three public lectures during spring semester 2012. The theme for the lecture series is Video Games: Where Technology Meets Art.

Combining faculty from The School of Computing and Film and Media Arts, EAE offers undergraduate and graduate emphases in game development and study. Students of the EAE Master Games Studio study and build games that push the state of the art and question how games are made and played.

Tuesday, January 24, 2012, 12:15-1:15 p.m.

Leonardo was right: Reuniting arts and technology / Mark van Langeveld, engineering track director

Tuesday, February 21, 2012, 12:15-1:15 p.m.

Animation: the secrets / Craig Caldwell, USTAR senior research professor, arts track director

Tuesday, March 27, 2012, 12:15-1:15 p.m.

Serious, games? How games are changing the future of science, medicine, and the academy / Roger Altizer, design and production track director

All lectures are free and open to the public and will be held in the Gould Auditorium, level one of the Marriott Library.

The University of Utah Libraries have embraced QR (‘quick response’) codes as a means of delivering additional information to patrons via their mobile device. QR codes are two dimensional codes that can be scanned with a mobile device’s camera and a reader application to link to various resources such as a URL, application, or video. This presentation will introduce QR codes and explore how they can allow libraries to connect faculty, students and visitors to the information they want at the point of need. The libraries on campus are currently using them to link to Web sites, access digital learning objects, promote classes, and guide users to specific library locations. Participants will learn how to use and create their own QR Codes in class. Come learn about the next generation bar codes and see how they can be useful to you!

Instuctors:

* Anne Morrow, Digital Initiatives Librarian at Marriott Library
* Nancy Lombardo, Information Technology Librarian at Eccles Health Sciences Library

Date: Thursday, March 17, 2011

Time: 2 p.m. – 3 p.m.

Place: Marriott Library 1120

The workshop is free, but please register so the instructors know how many to expect. See you there!

Thursday, February 3, noon – 1:00 p.m.

Fire and Ice – Measuring Antarctica’s Frozen Sea

Cynthia Furse, PhD, U of U Associate VP for Research, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering; Joyce Lin, PhD, NSF Postdoctoral Fellow in Mathematics; and David Lubbers, Senior in Electrical and Computer Engineering

Thursday, February 24, noon – 1:00 p.m.

Looking South: Poems from Antarctica

Katharine Coles, PhD, Utah Poet Laureate, novelist, U of U Professor of English. Dr. Coles was selected to participate in the NSF Antarctica Artists and Writers Program.

Thursday, April 14, noon – 1:00 p.m.

Climate Change and the Melting Polar Ice Caps

Ken Golden, Professor of Mathematics and Adjunct Professor of Bioengineering at the University of Utah. A sea ice and climate expert, Dr. Golden led the NSF sponsored United States research team on this international expedition to study Antarctica’s frozen sea and its role in Earth’s climate.

All lectures are free and open to the public and will be held in the Gould Auditorium, first floor of the Marriott Library.

Messenger of Thought: Treasures from the Rare Middle East Collections

“The pen is the ambassador of intelligence, the messenger of thought, and the interpreter for the mind”
– Islamic writer on calligraphy

If words are the essence of books, the materials used and the technologies developed to write those words are the building blocks of a captured culture. Verbal collaborates with visual, textual with textural, enhancing meaning and inviting intimacy between writer and reader. The arts of the book – papermaking and decorating, calligraphy, illumination, and binding are highly developed in Middle Eastern culture. From ancient times, the written word and the craft of Middle Eastern bookmakers has established law, recorded history and myth, inspired faith, stimulated intellectual exploration, and created bonds between east and west.

The Rare Books Division congratulates the Middle East Center and the Middle East Library on fifty years of supporting and continuing these bonds.

The QR codes generated were designed to explore their use in a wide variety of settings, they included library map, workshops schedule, events schedule, reference desk phone number, catalog search, course reserves, classroom schedule and library website.

I had assumed that the more frequently scanned codes would be the library map, course reserves, searching the catalog, however, this has not proven to be the case.

By far and away the largest number of scans so far have been for library events and the library’s main website.

I can see how it would be completely logical to quickly scan the code for the library website, bring it up on my mobile and navigate to any of the other areas on the go rather than scanning each of their codes.

As far as library events went, I was surprised to find it was a ‘heavy hitter’

– in fact, including library events was pretty much an afterthought made sensible by the need to fill up additional space on the QR code promotion poster.

But, perhaps this should not so easily surprise, maybe this is a signal of our visitors interest in an enhanced library experience? A moment of serendipity, if you will, of going off the beaten path and not knowing the end result.

Whereas most of our QR codes involve known actions (e.g. call the reference desk, search the catalog, find a room), the message we are receiving from the number of hits suggests that an element of the unknown is attractive.

We figure that library event posters should have QR codes themselves, but, is scanning a code that takes you to ‘more about the event advertised on this poster’ really the same thing? If the goal of a visitor is to experience a detour, then maybe that’s how we should be re-thinking use of QR codes.

Thursday, January 27, 2011
12 p.m. – 1 p.m.
Gould Auditorium, J. Willard Marriott Library (see map )

The three available Internships are:

• Scholarly Communications Research
• External Relations
• Research & Learning Services/Special Collections

See link for more information about these internships