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UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND LIBRARIES FALL 2014

UMD Libraries launch digital scholarship and publishing program The desire to help faculty make their scholarly work

management, marketing, metadata, digital preservation, and general advice on platforms, tools, and technologies.

UMD is unique among its peers in the Committee on Institutional Cooperation in that it has never run its own university press and does not have a history of providing such expanded publishing services to faculty.

“The lack of a central publishing body on campus means that the UMD Libraries are uniquely positioned to step in to fulfill a need that is otherwise not being met on campus,” says Knies.

Elsewhere, university presses, faced with shrinking budgets and declining revenues, have forged alliances with libraries, who have long been advocates for reshaping scholarly publishing.

We’re not starting at ground zero. The UMD Libraries already have several systems and mechanisms in place to support the dissemination of scholarly works. The most notable and widely used of these is the Digital Repository at the University of Maryland (DRUM), created in 2003.

(See drum.lib.umd.edu.)

DRUM, an institutional repository, provides a number of benefits to campus scholars, such as discovery through Google Scholar and other search engines, metadata, preservation, and a persistent URL. More information at http://lib.umd.edu/publish or libdigital@umd.edu.

(Content drawn from A Business Plan for Digital Scholar­ship and

widely and freely available—and advance the open access movement—sparked creation of a digital publishing program at the University Libraries.

Recently launched and now in its pilot stage, the program builds on current offerings and introduces new services.

“We’re offering a suite of services that are flexible, extensible, and vital to the needs of our faculty,” says Jennie Knies, manager of Digital Programs and Initiatives for the University Libraries. This includes providing platforms to publish electronic journals and other types of digital publications and a limited menu of consulting services related to publishing, such as training on author identity

Open Access Week October 20 – 24 Join the international event to increase support for open access, the move­­ment to make scholarly information widely and freely available on the Web. Register for workshops at lib.umd.edu/oa/openaccessweek

Journal editor taps library expertise and software Dr. Jeff MacSwan, a faculty member in the

College of Education, arrived here from Arizona State University in January 2012. As co-editor of the International Multilingual Research Journal (IMRJ), he sought help from the University Libraries to provide the technological infrastructure to support his editorial work.

MacSwan now uses software provided by the University Libraries to manage submissions, revisions, and the peer-review process for the

Publishing Program at the University of Maryland Libraries, prepared

by Jennie Levine Knies and Terry Owen.)

Faster delivery: UBorrow shows its value Of the many benefits associated with the

UBorrow Turnaround Time at UMD 2014 Arrival Time for Books (2014) UBorrow Requested through 80 60 40 20 1

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More than half of the books borrowed from CIC libraries since we intro­duced UBorrow have arrived in less than a week and 85 percent have arrived within 10 days. The average delivery time for traditional inter­libary loan books is 17 days.

Ready, Set, Innovate In September the University Libraries and the Academy for

Innovation and Entrepreneurship formally opened the John and Stella Graves MakerSpace in McKeldin Library. Conceived as a space for students of any major or interest to unleash creativity, the MakerSpace models a new environment in the library where students can use technology and tools to create prototypes, experiment, and innovate.

“What better place than a library?” asked Dean Patricia Steele at the ribbon-cutting ceremony. “We’re open to all. This is the democracy forum.”

For more information, see lib.umd.edu/tlc/makerspace.

The John & Stella Graves MakerSpace offers three 3D scanners, including one that can scan large objects such as people (far right).

Dr. Jeff MacSwan, Teaching and Learning, Policy, and Leadership Department, College of Education

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university’s membership in the Big Ten, one that’s already showing significant payoff is the opportunity for faculty, students and staff to borrow items from our Big Ten partner libraries.

UBorrow is a service offered by the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC), the academic consortium of Big Ten institutions plus the University of Chicago. By requesting books through UBorrow, you’ll receive them faster than you would from traditional interlibrary loan, and you’re far less likely to recall a book from another user.

More than 90 million books (printed books, that is) and other materials such as films are available from the 15 CIC libraries and the Center for Research Libraries, a consortium which has especially strong collections in area studies.

Equipment includes: n 3-D Printers MakerBot Replicator 2 - Single Color MakerBot Replicator 2X - Dual Color

journal. And it’s the same open-source software— Open Journal Systems—used by his co-editor in Arizona. “It has worked really well,” says MacSwan, of the system that can be used not only to manage manuscripts, as it does for MacSwan, but also to publish them as it does for many open-access journals nationwide.

MacSwan also understands the value of a library as a common denominator to disparate departments and editors. “The economies of scale of having it at the library makes sense,” he says.

OPEN ACCESS PUBLISHING FUND

Do you qualify for support?

To improve access to research produced at UMD,

n Oculus Rift virtual-reality headset

the University Libraries established a fund to help authors cover the article-processing charges levied by peer-reviewed open access journals. The fund:

n Google Glass

n enables authors to retain their copyrights

n 24” Vinyl Cutter

n accelerates the online availability of peerreviewed scholarly journal articles generated by UMD researchers

n 3-D Scanner

n SparkFun Inventor’s Kit n Soldering Kit

n raises campus awareness about the benefits of open access It was established in September 2013 as a recommendation of the Report of the Joint Provost/ Senate Open Access Task Force.

By the numbers n 13 applications funded for a total of $17,500 n $1,346 average charge (high of $2,025 and low of $390) n 3 applications were rejected, as the journals did not meet the criteria for open access More information: lib.umd.edu/oa/openaccessfund or email Terry Owen, Digital Scholarship Librarian: towen@umd.edu

NEWS YOU CAN USE Free, quality instructional resources online

Find hundreds of open-source textbooks, educational materials and other resources offered freely and openly to use and, under some licenses, to re-mix, improve and redistribute.

We’ve curated and compiled (as only librarians can) many goto sources for course materials, content modules and more.

Open educational resources: lib.guides.umd.edu/oer

Add toolbar button to eliminate Research Port log-ins

Doing research off-campus? Here’s a tip to avoid backtracking through Research Port.

Add our “reload” button to your browser’s bookmark toolbar, and whenever you come across a journal you think you should be able to access, click the button to reload the page through the UMD Libraries proxy.

It reloads the page you’re looking at and adds the proxy to the front, letting you sign in to access articles on the Web without having to backtrack through Research Port.

Note: this doesn’t provide access if it’s a resource we don’t subscribe to. http://lib.guides.umd.edu/reload-button

Beyond the Battle: Bladensburg Rediscovered An exhibit in Hornbake Library highlights the history

and culture of Bladensburg, once the busiest seaport in the state of Maryland.

Bladensburg was the site of an embarrassing defeat on August 24, 1814, that led to the capture by the British of Washington, D.C., and the burning of the White House and other federal buildings. A defeat of the British three weeks later in Baltimore inspired Francis Scott Key to write the Star Spangled Banner.

The exhibition features rare books and documents from the Libraries’ collec­tions, including an historic map of the Chesapeake region

created in part by Thomas Jefferson’s father. A pair of pistols on loan from the U.S. Naval Academy Museum in Annapolis under­scores Bladensburg’s reputation as a “dueling ground” where politicians settled disagree­ments with bullets.

Hornbake Library is home to special collections and the Univer­sity Archives at the University of Maryland.

For more information see www.lib.umd.edu/special/ exhibits/home

DRUM records are now assigned unique identifiers

New records deposited in DRUM (Digital Repository at the University of Maryland) will be assigned a digital object identifier or DOI. A DOI is a unique alphanumeric string used to identify content and provide a persistent link to its location on the Internet.

While information about or location of an item can change, the DOI will never change. All DOIs begin with a “10” and contain a prefix, which identifies the UMD Libraries, and a suffix separated by a slash, e.g., doi:10.13016/M2WC75.

DOIs are now being included in some citation referencing styles, including APA. We recommend that you include DOIs for your documents deposited in DRUM in your CV, webpages, and citations you send to colleagues. If you encounter DOIs in your research, you can convert it to a Web address by adding the prefix URL http://dx.doi.org; for example, http://dx.doi.org/10.13016/M2WC75.

More info: contact Terry Owen at towen@umd.edu.

MARK YOUR CALENDAR THE BEST ADVERTISEMENT WILL NEVER BE WRITTEN: The Advertising Film Before Commercial Broadcasting Martin Johnson, Assistant Professor of Media Studies, Catholic University

October 21, 4:30 p.m.

Hornbake Library North, 3rd floor

FUTURE OF THE RESEARCH LIBRARY SPEAKER SERIES

KENTUCKY FRIED LIBRARIES: Battered and Chewed Up in the Digital Marketplace

Mark Sandler, Director of the Center for Library Initiatives, Committee on Institutional Cooperation

December 4 , 10 - 11:30 a.m.

6137 McKeldin Library

OUR MISSION The University of Maryland Libraries enable the intellectual inquiry and learning required to meet the education, research and community outreach mission of the University.

Architecture Library Art Library Engineering & Physical Sciences Library Hornbake Library McKeldin Library Michelle Smith Performing Arts Library Priddy Library at Shady Grove White Memorial Chemistry Library

IN BRIEF UMD joins BitCurator Consortium As charter members of the BitCurator Consortium, we’ve joined a handful of elite universities in a new coalition dedicated to enhancing, promoting, and supporting the curation of born-digital materials by using open-source tools.

Born-digital materials, or materials that originate in digital form, include 3 1/2” and 5 1/4” floppy disks, Zip disks, CDROMs, and DVDs. Other charter members of the consortium include Duke University, Stanford University, New York University, and the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill.

NEH awards $290,000 to digitize more historic Maryland newspapers The University of Maryland Libraries will extend its project to digitize historic Maryland newspapers, thanks to a $290,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

The award provides funds to digitize and provide free online access to an additional 100,000 pages of Maryland newspapers printed between 1836 and 1922. An advisory board will help select newspapers from areas including Baltimore, Cumberland, Rockville, Frederick, the Eastern Shore and more.

Patricia A. Steele Dean of Libraries 6131 McKeldin Library College Park, Maryland 20742-7011 pasteele@umd.edu www.lib.umd.edu LIBRARY LINK is produced by the University Libraries.

Writer/Editor: Eric Bartheld Designer: Rebecca Wilson

WORKSHOPS Tools to Keep Track of Publications

Ready for Lyterati? New workshops teach you how to keep track of your publications to help update your CV. Please register for your preferred date and time.

The same content will be taught at each session.

Tuesday, October 21, 12:30 - 2 p.m.

Wednesday, October 22, 11 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

Monday, October 27, 1 -2:30 p.m.

Tuesday, October 28, 2 - 3:30 p.m.

Register now: http://www.lib.umd.edu/rc/events

OPEN ACCESS WORKSHOPS

More info: www.lib.umd.edu/oa/openaccessweek

Author Rights

Learn about publisher policies for posting on the web; author options and tools for retaining rights; options such as publishing in open access journals.

Monday, October 20, 10:00 – 11:00 a.m.

Tuesday, October 21, 2:00 – 3:00 p.m.

Copyright for Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Learn how to treat third-party materials, including copy­ right permissions and exemptions to copyright law.

Wednesday, October 22, 10 – 11 a.m.

Thursday, October 23, 2 – 3 p.m.