Browsing by Author "Hall, Robyn"

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    A look into closed access capitalism and LIS publishing practices
    (2018) Hall, Robyn
    Drawing on data from an investigation of 127 academic, peer-reviewed journals in library and information science (LIS), this presentation will discuss ways that those working in LIS can take back control over how their work is disseminated and shared online. For this to happen, however, members of the profession need to recognize and consciously grapple with the ubiquitous capitalist system that informs so many of the services, functions, and expectations that are tied to the profession.
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    Adventures in the study of scholarly communications
    (2023-05-02) Hall, Robyn; Hurrell, Christie; Hayman, Richard
    Scholarly communications practitioners are increasingly conducting important research into the practices, services, and programs that define and sustain their work. During this session, hear about the opportunities and challenges that presented themselves during three such projects recently undertaken by librarians who have lived to tell the tale of their scholarly endeavours to better understand scholarly communications in the Canadian context. Participants will also have an opportunity to discuss their own experiences conducting research relevant to scholarly communications, and identify research gaps attendees may be interested in engaging with moving forward. We anticipate that this session will equip attendees with practical skills for engaging in research activities, whether as part of a formal research leave, or in the course of their daily work.
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    Choosing the best journal for your paper
    (2015) Stieglitz, Tara; Hall, Robyn
    With thousands of academic journals to choose from, deciding where to submit a paper can be a daunting task. What journal is the best fit for your area of research? Which journals have the greatest impact? Should you consider open access publishing options? Which publishers should you avoid? This session will provide insight into these questions, while giving attendees an overview of tools that can help with finding and assessing journals, including Ulrichs Web and InCites: Journal Citation Reports.
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    Choosing the best journal for your paper
    (2017) Hall, Robyn
    With thousands of academic journals to choose from, deciding where to submit a paper can be a daunting task. What journal is the best fit for your area of research? Which journals have the greatest impact? Should you consider open access publishing options? Which publishers should you avoid? This session will provide insight into these questions, while giving attendees an overview of tools that can help with finding and assessing journals, including Ulrichsweb.
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    Connecting scholarly activity to learners, thinkers, and doers
    (2017) Hall, Robyn
    What is the point of disseminating research and scholarship if no one is engaging with it? This session will discuss ways that the Internet can be used to facilitate knowledge translation, sharing, and discussions of research to build connections, launch innovations, enrich student learning, and benefit communities. Tools discussed will include ORCID, open access and open peer review infrastructure, and social media platforms. Participants will be encouraged to explore ways to take advantage of these tools to help ensure that their research and scholarship is having the broadest possible impact and reach.
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    Creating course-based journals
    (2017) Hall, Robyn
    Course-based journals are a great hands on opportunity for students to learn about the academic writing process and how scholarship is shared. Students submit and review each other’s papers, request revisions, and each term, a new issue is produced that showcases exceptional examples of students’ academic work. In this session, we will discuss approaches to designing assignments around course based journals, explore existing examples, and review some easy-to-use, free software options available to MacEwan faculty interested in designing journal assignments in their own classes.
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    Demonstrating the impact of your work
    (2014) Hall, Robyn; Stieglitz, Tara
    A growing number of websites provide ways to see how many times research and teaching materials have been cited, viewed, downloaded, and shared with others. Learn how to tell a story about the scholarly and social impact of your work using both traditional and alternative metrics when documenting accomplishments in CVs, dossiers, and funding applications. This hands-on session will include finding and interpreting metrics in Google Scholar, Scopus, ImpactStory.org, ResearchGate, and more.
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    Demystifying the academic publishing process
    (2014) Hall, Robyn
    Opportunities to publish research and scholarly works are many, yet so are the questions and concerns that can arise when choosing a suitable publishing venue. How do you identify high quality peer-reviewed journals in your field? What are the benefits and limitations to publishing in open access journals that are freely available on the internet? What are your options if a publisher asks you to sign away copyright to your work? And how can you find out whether your work has actually been cited and built upon by others once it has been published? This session will give you insight into these questions and more, while providing an overview of various ways in which MacEwan University Library staff can help you navigate the academic publishing world.
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    Digital scholarship from the bottom up: the library's role in open access student journals
    (2013) Hall, Robyn
    Open Journal Systems (OJS) is open source publishing software that has been adopted by scholarly communities around the world. Typically, it is hosted by academic libraries and used by faculty and graduate students to disseminate research articles independent of proprietary, for-profit journal publishers. Increasingly, however, educators are using this software for assignments and initiatives that give undergraduate students hands on experience with open access publishing of their own digital works and that of their peers. Drawing on a range of examples, this session will highlight ways that librarians can provide technical support, editorial guidance, and media/digital literacy instruction to help create and maintain open access student journals. Participants will also have an opportunity to see the inner workings of OJS while being asked to consider the possibilities and implications of managing an open journal hosting service at their own library, be it public, academic, or special.
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    Educating the next generation of open scholars: approaches, tools, and tactics
    (2019) Hall, Robyn
    Those who teach and work with students at the undergraduate and graduate level can play an important role in shaping the future of scholarly communications. Drawing students’ attention to the myriad of ways that research and scholarship can be shared openly online can provide valuable opportunities for students to disseminate their own work, engage with the work of others, and develop copyright literacy and improved academic writing and communication skills. Additionally, exposing students to the socioeconomic processes that shape access to knowledge can influence how these budding academics approach scholarly activity and where they choose to publish in their future careers.
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    Exploring the library’s role in managing an institutional repository
    (2016) Hall, Robyn
    What does it take to manage an institutional repository, and is this something your institution even needs? Participants of this session will be encouraged to consider the most appropriate means through which libraries of various shapes and sizes might engage in a repository project of their own, and the role that consortia like NEOS might play in helping to facilitate such projects.
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    Exposing undergraduate research in institutional repositories
    (2017) Hall, Robyn
    Institutional repositories can play an important role in providing students with opportunities to disseminate scholarship, while also acting to highlight and promote undergraduate research activities at academic institutions. Few repositories have fully embraced this role, however. As recent data from a content analysis of Canadian institutional repositories reveals, a majority tend to focus services around disseminating, preserving, and showcasing the work of faculty members, research centres, and graduate students, while largely ignoring undergraduate work. This session will outline effective strategies for attracting attention to undergraduate research in institutional repositories while asserting the benefits of doing so for students and institutions alike. Additionally, participants will learn ways of overcoming challenges related to promoting repository services to undergraduate student populations and obtaining contributions of work, securing rights, and managing deposits. (Poster number 304.)
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    Exposing undergraduate research in institutional repositories: recommendations & examples
    (2017) Hall, Robyn
    Institutional repositories can play an important role in providing students with opportunities to disseminate scholarship, while also acting to highlight and promote undergraduate research activities at academic institutions. Few repositories have fully embraced this role, however. As recent data from a content analysis of Canadian institutional repositories reveals, a majority tend to focus services around disseminating, preserving, and showcasing the work of faculty members, research centres, and graduate students, while largely ignoring undergraduate work. This session will outline effective strategies for attracting attention to undergraduate research in institutional repositories while asserting the benefits of doing so for students and institutions alike. Additionally, participants will learn ways of overcoming challenges related to promoting repository services to undergraduate student populations and obtaining contributions of work, securing rights, and managing deposits. (Detailed abstract & handout for poster number 304.)
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    Funding support for open access journals
    (2018) Gallilee, Patty; Gaynor, Kathy; Hall, Robyn
    Academic libraries have an important role to play in helping to ensure that scholarly publishing is sustainable, and that the public has access to research results and knowledge. In addition to running institutional repositories, and funding publisher’s open access (OA) article processing charges (APCs), libraries have increasingly begun funding OA journal operations directly from collection and operating budgets. The following report details attempts to “flip” subscription charges in this manner, and provides recommendations on ways that libraries can continue to support the publication and discovery of OA content into the future.
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    Getting OER Projects Off the Ground and Online
    (2019) Foster, Alison; Hall, Robyn
    Free online open education resources (OER) are becoming increasingly accessible and relevant within Canadian classrooms. Are you interested in exploring options in this area but are unsure where to start? This session will cover why adopting, adapting, or creating such resources can be a viable option for your teaching and will outline the key steps to initiating an OER project while also discussing sources of support for this process on campus and beyond. Please bring laptops or devices so that you can follow along online.
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    How do you solve a problem like scholarly peer review?
    (2017) Hall, Robyn
    Peer-review of research literature might be the best method we have for vetting academic work for quality and legitimacy prior to publication, but it is far from perfect. This session is for anyone planning to submit work to an academic journal, act as a peer-reviewer, or who gives students assignments that require them to only use peer- reviewed articles. It will provide an overview of the history of peer-review as we now know it, addressing its weaknesses and faults while also detailing strategies and initiatives currently underway to improve upon and strengthen current practices.
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    If you build an institutional repository they will come (or not)
    (2016) Hall, Robyn
    After more than a year of development in close consultation with stakeholders, MacEwan University launched an institutional repository (IR) in August of 2014. It was built using Islandora, an open source platform that offered significant flexibility in terms of look, feel, and overall functionality. Usability testing focused on ensuring the site was easy to use and attractive to users in hopes that it would easily pursued faculty members to deposit and share their research, scholarship, and creative works more broadly online. Reflecting upon the development and ongoing maintenance of MacEwan's IR two years later, this session will question the degree to which usability and design actually matter when it comes to populating an IR with content.
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    Innovative and affordable acts of pedagogy: open education show and tell
    (2020-02-18) Hall, Robyn; Foster, Alison; Dawson, Leslie
    The use of open education resources to facilitate teaching and learning has increased steadily at MacEwan University over the past several years. Featuring examples of initiatives led by MacEwan instructors, this presentation will highlight open resources that faculty members have successfully developed and implemented with the goals of sharing student work beyond the classroom, expanding access to learning, and enabling flexible course design. Participants will be asked to consider ways that they too might embrace open resources in their own course development, identify potential benefits and challenges of implementation, and learn about available on-campus support.
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    Knowledge without borders: the open access movement's impact on the flow of information
    (2015) Hall, Robyn; Mirau, Dan
    The Internet enables ideas, scholarship, and data to travel the world over. However, all too often commercial interests put restrictive borders around this information thereby limiting students, scientists, patients, policy makers, and others from accessing the information they need. Drawing on the concept of disruptive innovation, this session will explore online tools and strategies that supporters of the open access movement are using to tell the stories of these unmet information needs from around the world, while also highlighting recent, groundbreaking initiatives working to dismantle commercial barriers and allow scholarly information to flow more freely online.
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    Lightening students' load: an introduction to open textbooks
    (2015) Hall, Robyn
    Free online textbooks (“open textbooks”) are becoming a reality for a growing number of students in higher education. This session will explore initiatives that are making this possible including the British Columbia Open Textbook Project and the Campus Alberta Open Education Resources Initiative. Participants will be asked to reflect on how open textbooks could benefit their own students both economically and in terms of student learning, while also considering possible drawbacks and implications that these emerging resources pose.