Archive for category Faculty
Evaluating Information: The Light Side of Open Access
Early last week I opened the New York Times and was surprised to see a front-page article about sham academic publishers and conferences. The article discussed something we in the library world have been aware of for some time: open access publishers with low (or no) standards for peer review and acceptance, sometimes even with [...]
Posted: 14 April, 2013 in Faculty, Open Access, Scholarly Communications.
Tags: authors' fees, conferences, evaluation, predatory publishers, scholarly journals
Comments: 1
ACS Solutions: The Sturm und Drang
ACRLog welcomes a guest post from Sue Wiegand, Periodicals Librarian at St. Mary’s College in Notre Dame, IN. A chemical storm recently blew up across the blogosphere, involving the American Chemical Society journals, the serials crisis of unsustainably high prices, and one brave librarian, Jenica Rogers at SUNY Potsdam, who said “Enough!” The atmospheric conditions [...]
Posted: 6 April, 2013 in Faculty, Open Access, Research Issues, Scholarly Communications.
Tags: ACS, big deal, journals, scholarly journals
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The Library is Open
For the past couple of years I’ve been wearing two main hats at my job: one as an information literacy librarian and the other as a lead on a collegewide pedagogical grant. I’ve had several opportunities to connect the two, which I think strengthens both my library and my grant work. This year the connection [...]
Posted: 30 January, 2013 in Faculty, Student Issues, Technology Issues.
Tags: Blackboard, courseware, learning management system, library website, LMS, outreach, Wordpress
Comments: 2
A Librarian at the MLA
I recently attended the Modern Language Association’s annual convention. The theme of the conference, “Avenues of Access,” encouraged reflection on how scholars, students, and publics access the humanities within institutions and on their margins. What does access mean for students when many American universities are eliminating humanities departments and programs? What does access mean for [...]
Posted: 10 January, 2013 in Conference Blogging, Faculty, Professional Development, Scholarly Communications.
Comments: 1
The Polymer Librarian?
Happy 2013 everyone, it will be incrementally different than 2012. In my new position one of my primary responsibilities (depending on whom you ask, THE primary responsibility) is providing support to our departments of Polymer Science and Polymer Engineering. Akron is the historic home of the rubber industry and the regional research focus on rubber [...]
Posted: 31 December, 2012 in Faculty, First Year Academic Librarian Experience, Higher Education.
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