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    Promoting Open Access: Strategies for Engaging Faculty Across Departments as a Liaison Librarian
    (MLA | DLA Library Conference 2024, 2024-05-08) Sarah Weiss
    As the push for Open Access (OA) gains momentum, libraries play a pivotal role in facilitating equitable access to scholarly research. The University of Maryland, College Park (UMD) Libraries, supports OA through a number of tools and initiatives including transformative agreements, publishing grants, an institutional repository, and advocacy. As a liaison librarian, it is my job to promote OA resources, to the departments I serve. This poster explores the multifaceted approach I’ve developed to do this. Adapting outreach methods to resonate with each specific department is crucial. Educating faculty on the basics of OA, addressing individual misconceptions, and collaborating with the Open Scholarship department are foundational steps. Engaging faculty through tailored seminars and personalized consultations amplifies the impact of OA initiatives. Moreover, customizing tools for specific departments and offering ongoing support through reference services enhance accessibility. Despite time constraints, faculty exhibit genuine interest in OA, emphasizing the significance of tailored engagement strategies. By meeting faculty where they are and fostering discussions within their cohorts, liaison librarians can effectively champion the principles of OA and advance scholarly communication practices.
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    When There’s Only One: Resource sharing and the predicament of the dissertation request
    (2020-03) Thompson, Hilary; Eighmy Brown, Melissa; Smith, Austin
    The past two decades have witnessed a shift from print to electronic theses and dissertations and an accompanying growth in university mandates requiring deposit of ETDs in institutional repositories. While these changes should have paved the way for unfettered online access, barriers such as embargoes requested by the author and vendor licensing restrictions have also emerged, hampering access to these unpublished works. Likewise, policies governing cataloging, deposit, and repository access may differ widely across institutions, adding further complexity to the landscape. Interlibrary Loan practitioners are looking for ways to share this unique content and help users navigate the terrain despite the obstacles. This presentation will explore recent trends in the requesting and fulfillment of graduate works using multiple years of borrowing and lending requests from two public research universities, along with the perspectives of colleagues at peer institutions. The authors hope their research on the accessibility of theses and dissertations will inform the resource sharing community on ways to improve the sharing of these important institutional assets, including raising awareness of the need for a policy and workflow that permits controlled ILL lending of embargoed ETDs that mirrors lending of print dissertations.
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    Asian Studies Scholars and Their Research at the University of Maryland
    (2018-02-12) Sorrell, Cynthia; Tatsumi, Yukako
    This local report summarizes the findings of scholarly research practices and needs of faculty members specializing in Asian Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park (hereafter UMD). UMD Libraries were invited to participate in ITHAKA S+R’s Research Support Services Project, which is part of a series of investigative studies regarding the research support needs of scholars by their discipline, specifically those underrepresented in the existing literature, such as Asian Studies. Two UMD librarians conducted the project’s protocol through in-depth qualitative analyses of the research practices of academics in Asian Studies at UMD. This project allowed participants the opportunity to voice their opinions on support and services along with the juxtaposition of their field to other disciplines on campus and in academe, in general. Objectives of the study included 1) understanding resources and services that the interviewed faculty members required to be successful in their research; 2) recognizing challenges faced within their research approaches and practices; 3) comparing and contrasting choice of publication venues, including open access; 4) documenting interviewees’ opinions on what would simplify and/or promote their research; and 5) expressing their opinions on the current and future state of this field of study. The interviews provided insight into ways to improve the academic experiences of scholars and their research.
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    The complexity of chemical information: Interview with Gary Wiggins
    (Chandos Publishing (Imprint of Elsevier), 2015-07-24) Baykoucheva, Svetla
    Gary Wiggins was the head of the Indiana University (IU) Chemistry Library from 1976 to 2003. During the final four years of his professional career, he served as Director of the Bioinformatics and Cheminformatics Programs in the IU School of Informatics, helping to create one of the first graduate programs in the United States that offer specialized training in cheminformatics. For many years, he taught courses in chemical information and science reference at IU. His textbook, Chemical Information Sources, was eventually converted to a Wikibook. Dr. Wiggins received several prestigious awards throughout his career, including the American Chemical Society Division of Chemical Information’s Herman Skolnik Award and the Patterson-Crane Award of the ACS Columbus and Dayton Sections. He was also elected to the Special Libraries Association Hall of Fame. Much of his research involved the improvement of teaching information literacy to chemistry and science students and the improvement of communication among scientists. In May 1991, Gary Wiggins started a chemical information discussion list, CHMINF-L, in Indiana University. Through the years, this forum became an institution of its own, providing a medium for exchanging information and ideas and attracting people interested in chemical information, but who approached it from different perspectives. In this era of social media, it is surprising that an e-mail Listserv based on technology developed over 20 years ago is still thriving. In many ways, CHMINF-L is still the information source for everyone from chemists to science librarians and publishers.
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    What's the Opposite of a Pyrrhic Victory? Lessons Learned from an Open Access Defeat
    (Association of College and Research Libraries, 2009-10) Hackman, Tim
    A recent failed attempt to pass a resolution in support of open access at the University of Maryland (UM), while disappointing to the librarians involved and to many observers, nevertheless provides some important lessons for working with teaching faculty to address the scholarly communication crisis. This article provides a brief history of the efforts in support of open access at UM, analyzes what went wrong with the failed resolution, and offers some suggestions for working with faculty to educate them on the importance of open access to their research.