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Item Accessibility in Open Access Institutional Repositories(2016-10) Carter, CaitlinPresentation from the Conference on Inclusion and Diversity in Library and Information Science (CIDLIS) at the University of Maryland on October 21, 2016. Despite the implied “access” in open access institutional repositories, digital repositories overall lack consistency in how they make information and content accessible to users. Inconsistency in metadata does not promote interoperability or discoverability between repositories and within the repository itself. Moreover, several institutional repositories do not make great effort to ensure content is accessible to users with disabilities by ignoring best practices in universal web development. Finally, repository users often lack a clear understanding of how to deposit their items into a repository with enriched metadata, what items the repository accepts in terms of file types, and what will be done to protect their data so it can be retrieved in the future. Therefore, within the greater umbrella of accessibility, the following areas should be prioritized: metadata standards to ensure universal discoverability; web development standards to ensure access to users with disabilities; policy development to provide transparency; and along with the aforementioned priorities, preservation standards to ensure that research is maintained for future generations.Item OER and Solving the Textbook Cost Crisis(2016-10-25) Allen, NicoleItem Find It Fail: What ILL can tell us about Challenges related to Known Item Discovery(2015-07-30) Thompson, HilaryWhen discovery of known items fail, library users often turn to interlibrary loan for assistance obtaining these materials. At the University of Maryland Libraries, Interlibrary Loan staff members then fill the requests by directing the user to subscription e-resources or items that are freely available on the web. The resulting transactions—approximately 2,500 per year—provide insight into the difficulties encountered by library users in finding and accessing known items online. Data gathered in ILLiad’s Document Delivery module during FY2014 and FY2015 sheds light on which user groups have trouble finding material readily available online and which types of resources most often go undiscovered. Analyzing this data has led the UMD ILL unit to identify several strategies to help users better locate these materials themselves. The poster will cover how we collect this data, specific issues that the data reveals, the actions we are taking in response, and how we hope to measure the success of our efforts to improve known item discovery within the UMD community.Item Find It Fail: What ILL can tell us about Challenges related to Known Item Discovery(2015-06-04) Thompson, HilaryWhen discovery of known items fail, library users often turn to interlibrary loan for assistance obtaining these materials. ILL staff members then “fill” the requests by directing the user to subscription e-resources or items that are freely available on the web. The resulting transactions (approximately 2,500 per year) provide insight into the difficulties encountered by library users in finding and accessing known items online. Using data gathered from ILLiad, I hope to shed light on which user groups have trouble finding material readily available online, which types of resources pose particular difficulty, and generate discussion about how the Libraries can help users learn to locate these materials themselves.Item The Evolution of Open Access: What Might Happen Next?(2014-04-10) Joseph, HeatherAs Open Access becomes established as a permanent fixture in the scholarly communication area, the challenges and opportunities presented by the Open environment increase in scale and complexity. This talk will examine some of the key trends pointing towards additional opportunities for large-scale change in not only how we access and use scholarly research outputs - but also how they are disseminated, curated and evaluated. Heather Joseph serves as the Executive Director of the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC), an international coalition of academic and research libraries working to expand the global, cost-effective digital communication of research results. As SPARC’s Director since 2005, Ms. Joseph leads the strategic and operational activities of the organization, and has focused SPARC’s efforts on supporting emerging publishing models, enabling digital archives, and establishing open access policies on the national and international levels.Item Open Access(2012-02-13) Owen, Terry M.Item Interview with Eugene Garfield(American Chemical Society, Division of Chemical Information, 2006) Baykoucheva, Svetla; Garfield, EugeneItem Digital Repositories and the Arts & Humanities(2009-12-02) Owen, Terry M.Item Digital Repositories(2007-12-06) Owen, Terry M.Item Open Access: Entitlement, Opportunity, or Peril?(2010-01-17) Owen, Terry M.