Browsing by Author "Ghaphery, Jimmy"

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    Open Education Week 2022 Open Course Tours Event
    Thompson, Liz; Finlayson, Caitie; LeClair, Renee J.; Binks, Andrew P.; Goodwin-Jones, Robert; Leek, Danielle; Westcott, Stephanie; Ghaphery, Jimmy; Thomas, Judith (Virginia Tech, 2022-03-09)
    This event sponsored by SCHEV-Open Virginia Advisory Committee (OVAC) provides four virtual tours of courses utilizing Open Education Resources (OER) and/or Open Pedagogy. These course tours are designed to move beyond the basics of OER to show how OER are being implemented in actual courses by colleagues in Virginia, in a variety of educational contexts. A summary of the Virginia Course Materials Survey and information on VIVA Open Grants available for OER is also presented.
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    Public Domain and Paywalled: Copyright Statements on Journal Articles by U.S. Government Employees
    Young, Philip; Ghaphery, Jimmy (Kraemer Copyright Conference, 2021-06-07)
    Works by United States government employees are generally in the public domain within the U.S. This presentation will discuss an ongoing study of the copyright designations on journal articles authored or co-authored by U.S. government employees. The study specifically looks at journal articles published in 2019 from authors affiliated with the National Cancer Institute or the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Using a random sample from articles meeting this criteria from the Web of Science journal index, the authors are discovering myriad and often inconsistent ways in which publishers express the copyright of these articles. The presentation will surface trends in the copyright labeling of these articles with regard to accuracy, variety of copyright designation, and disciplinary differences. The presentation will also discuss implications for librarians, readers, and authors with specific regard toward open sharing and repurposing of these works that should be in the U.S. public domain.
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    Public Domain and Paywalled: Journal Articles Authored or Co-authored by U.S. Government Employees
    Young, Philip; Ghaphery, Jimmy (University of Kansas Libraries, 2024-08-21)
    Academic journal articles authored by U.S. government employees are assumed to be in the public domain, though journals vary in communicating this status, and access is often not provided. To document this situation, between September 2020 and March 2021 we collected and analyzed copyright statements from a random sample of articles in PDF published in 2019 by authors affiliated with two U.S. government agencies. 13% of the sampled articles had a copyright statement indicating the U.S. public domain or U.S. government authorship. 42% of the published versions of the sampled articles were behind a paywall. Even when all authors of an article were U.S. government employees, 29% were labeled in the U.S. public domain, and 66% were behind a paywall. While copyright notices are not required, notice provides legal certainty on the usage of journal articles, which are shared among scholars, added to bibliographic managers, and posted to websites and repositories. Journal articles authored by U.S. government employees may be a source of open access that has not been fully realized, and uniquely, a retrospective source of access for scholarship. We suggest best practices for journal publishers, as well as possible actions by U.S. government agencies, library organizations, and institutional repositories. The U.S. public domain provides an opportunity to increase the number of peer-reviewed journal articles that are open access.
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    SCHEV Open Virginia Advisory Committee (OVAC) Webinar Series Part IV: Open Education: Student Success and Faculty Autonomy: Listening to OER Stakeholders in Virginia
    Rondeau, Sophie; Thomas, Judith; Rebar, Beverly; Ghaphery, Jimmy (Virginia Tech, 2021-04-09)
    This presentation will discuss Virginia OER stakeholder interviews conducted by SPARC Open Education Leadership Program participants, Judy Thomas (UVA; 2019-2020 SPARC Open Education Leadership Cohort) and Sophie Rondeau (VIVA; 2020-2021 SPARC Open Education Leadership Cohort). Come prepared to contribute to the conversation as Judy and Sophie invite attendees to share their perspectives on open education. This event is part of the Open Education: Student Success and Faculty Autonomy 2020-21 Webinar series sponsored by SCHEV's Open Virginia Advisory Committee.