Describes efforts at Oregon State University to combat serials inflation through involvement of faculty in a Scholarly Communication Task Force. Includes brief discussion of context of scholarly communication crisis and information about the formation and work of task force to educate and change faculty behavior depending on their role in...
Oregon State University’s recent response to the crisis in scholarly communications recognizes that teaching faculty must be involved in communicating an appropriate response to their faculty colleagues. As authors, editors, and peer reviewers, direct faculty action can encourage publishers to lower costs and can enhance the availability of research. The...
The third in a series of articles published in OSU This Week by members of the Faculty Senate Library Committee regarding threats to an open and sustainable system of scholarly communication and potential solutions. Article describes open access model of scholarly communication.
To a large extent, then, we become what we think we are:
Those who think they can do, do.
Those who think they cannot, do not.
This is true for all of us. But it is especially true for young children. The responses of parents and other adults have a...
This is the second and concluding volume in Stern's acclaimed study of the relationships between Plateau Indians and the white fur traders, missionaries, and settlers who entered their world.
The fifth and final article in a series of articles published in OSU This Week by members of the Faculty Senate Library Committee regarding threats to an open and sustainable system of scholarly communication and potential solutions. Article discusses how deposit of articles in institutional repositories increases the availability of...
The second in a series of articles published in OSU This Week by members of the Faculty Senate Library Committee regarding threats to an open and sustainable system of scholarly communication and potential solutions. Article discusses how journal prices have increased beyond the rate of inflation, monopolistic publishing practices, library...
Librarians work with students, in K-12, public, and academic library settings, but often have little background preparation in how students’ development impacts their learning. Learners undergo a tremendous amount of personal and academic growth throughout their lifetime. Understanding key theories about how students develop and grow can help librarians improve...
The first in a series of articles published in OSU This Week by members of the Faculty Senate Library Committee regarding threats to an open and sustainable system of scholarly communication and potential solutions.
The essays in this collection do not cluster about a specific theme, nor do they present a single unified interpretative approach to issues in the history of American foreign policy. Above all, William Appleman Williams is a teacher. And good teachers are disappointed with conformity. No one would ever come...