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Philip Young has been a metadata librarian at Virginia Tech since 2006. He blogs about open access at Open@VT.
This work by Philip Young is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
Recent Submissions
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(Cataloging & Classification Quarterly, 2012-09-24)When the National Academies Press announced that more than 4,000 electronic books would be made freely available for download, many academic libraries expressed interest in obtaining MARC records for them. Using cataloging ...
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(Virginia Libraries Association Annual Conference, 2012-10-26)How are open access e-book collections identified and described? This presentation addresses the types of freely accessible electronic books, sources for them, and metadata workflows for adding them to the catalog. ...
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(2012-10-16)This is a general introduction to open access that describes the two roads to OA, self-archiving and publishing in an OA journal. Also covered are predatory publishers and the importance of open licensing. Library services ...
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(2012-09-18)This is a 2-page summary of Kathleen Fitzpatrick's book Planned Obsolescence which was prepared for a Library Reading Group meeting on September 12, 2012. The summary also contains links to the projects and tools mentioned ...
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(2010-10-12)This brief presentation covers the basics of scholarly communication and suggests potential actions by faculty authors, the university, and Faculty Senate. It was followed by an extensive Q&A though there was no subsequent ...
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