This is a report submitted as part of a collaborative project with 18 other institutions as part of a study convened by Ithaka S+R exploring agricultural science faculty's research behaviors.
In December of 2016 Oregon State University Libraries and Press (OSULP) conducted a workplace climate survey. All non-student faculty and staff were invited to take the survey; the response rate was 62 (68%).
This survey was adapted from a workplace climate survey created by the University of Nevada at Las...
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Oregon State University Libraries and Press (OSULP) demonstrates the value of openness in a variety of ways. We worked with faculty to pass an open access policy to provide the broadest possible access to university scholarship. We teach faculty and students to use data tools that promote the...
Presentation about the OSU Oregon Multicultural Archives' Latino/a community oral history project, "Latinos en Oregón: sus voces, sus historias, su herencia" and specifically stories of migration and settlement of members of the Latino/a community in Madras, Oregon, given at the Oregon Migrations Symposium on November 17, 2016.
INTRODUCTION: Academic libraries have experimented with a variety of services to encourage article deposit to institutional repositories, with varying degrees of success. Universities now face the challenge of meeting federal agency public access requirements. Following the White House Office of Science Technology and Policy public access directive in 2013, Oregon...
The emergence of altmetrics has drawn the attention of academic libraries as a new and effective approach for capturing the types of impact often ignored by traditional citation-based metrics. At Oregon State University Libraries, before investing in a full-scale implementation of altmetrics services, we conducted an assessment survey of faculty...
Users interested in customizing their Primo installation are required to configure specific settings, files, and code during the View setup process. A consequence of this is that unique customizations are not easily sharable between institutions. With the release of the new Primo User Interface, Ex Libris has enabled institutions to...
A survey of workplace climate surveys for libraries. The document includes a brief description, information about costs, positive reasons to use the survey or service, a url where available, and questions or sample questions where available.
Two faculty-librarians in the US led a small group of undergraduate students from Oregon State University on a short-term study abroad to Barcelona in the summer of 2016. While in Barcelona the librarians and one of their students delivered a presentation to librarians in Catalonia. The paper presentation detailed the...
When multicultural educators and archivists collaborate to design projects that engage students with multicultural history through archival research, students can learn in-depth research skills with primary source documents, creatively share their knowledge, and, on a broader level, engage with their local community history. The projects shared in this article serve...
An essay reflecting on the collection of molecular models held in the Ava Helen and Linus Pauling Papers, with particular mention made of specific models about which amusing or insightful anecdotes are known. Reference is made to Pauling's involvement in the development of CPK models; his use of models in...
For this paper, we will provide some background about Oregon State University’s repository and ETDs, discuss our project to migrate the repository from DSpace to Sufia/Hydra, our use of the Portland Common Data Model to represent objects and files in the repository, some of the challenges we are facing in...
Presentation as part of the session "Short Papers Panel: Diversity and Cultural Communities" at the 2016 annual Rare Books and Manuscripts Section (RBMS) conference in Coral Gables, Florida, June 24, 2016. RBMS is a part of the Association of College & Research Libraries, a division of the American Library Association.
Sustainability initiatives in the library learning commons have long included paper and container recycling. But for those libraries that allow food consumption in study and learning spaces, collection of compostable food scraps and compostable food receptacles is not yet the norm. Tapping into the libraries’ core value of Sustainability, librarians...
On March 31, 2016 the Oregon State University Postdoctoral Association and the Oregon State University Libraries hosted an open access panel moderated by Pedro Molina-Sanchez. Speakers included Michaela Willi Hooper, Scholarly Communication Librarian at OSU Libraries; Rachael Kuintzle, PhD student in the OSU College of Science; Marit Bovbjerg, Faculty in...
This article presents Oregon State University’s experience launching an innovative Open Textbook initiative in spring 2014. The partners, Open Oregon State and the Oregon State University Libraries and Press, aimed to reduce the cost of course materials for students while ensuring the content created was peer-reviewed and employed multimedia capabilities....
OSU Libraries & Press initiated a pilot Open Access Fund in April 2015 that paid for open access article processing charges for OSU authors who met award criteria. The purpose of the fund was to heighten the visibility and accessibility of OSU scholarship and to support faculty and their student...
An analysis of Data Management Plans (DMPs) can offer insight into local data management practices. The IMLS- funded “Data management plans as A Research Tool (DART) Project” has developed an analytic rubric to assist librarians in facilitating and standardizing the review of DMPs. This panel will consist of data specialists...
OSU Libraries Publishing began offering internships as one way to firmly link the program to the library and university teaching mission. Along the way, questions about implementation surfaced. We will consider what best practices are emerging and examine current internship models within library publishing, digital scholarship centers, and academic libraries...
Recent trends in librarianship point to themes of crafters, artisans, and makers in library spaces. The American Library Association's Center for the Future of Libraries includes the Maker Movement as one of its trends. Librarians can support these makers and entrepreneurs by thinking of libraries as a place to create...
Oregon State University Libraries and Press has reorganized its circulation, reference and building management services into a new department, focusing directly on the experience of library users. The Library Experience and Access Department (LEAD) was designed to meet evolving needs with access to user-focused, proactive, and flexible services and spaces...