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$150,000 Available to Publish Open Access Articles: VT’s OPEN ACCESS SUBVENTION FUND
McMillan, Gail (Virginia Tech, 2017-12-05)
Course Description If you're writing an article for a scholarly journal, Virginia Tech Libraries will support the Article Publishing Charge (APC) of up to $1500 for publication in an open access (OA) journal. The fund also supports APCs for hybrid OA journals, if the publisher reduces institutional subscription prices. The OASF is available to everyone In the VT community—faculty, staff, and students. In this session we will review Virginia Tech’s Open Access Subvention Fund award criteria, locate OA journals, and identify databases that help determine if the publisher meets the funding criteria. Bring your laptop or tablet and practice or create an OASF request with the fund manager at hand. At the conclusion of the session you will be in a good position to have your next article funded, which you can link to your résumé, annual activity report, or dossier for promotion and tenure/continued appointment. Come prepared to also learn more about the Libraries’ publishing services and VT’s draft open access policy. Course Outcomes

Understand the OASF award criteria

Learn about hybrid OA journals and publishers’ “double dipping”

Walk away with a draft the request for funds

Know who to talk to about library publishing services

Have a better understanding of the impact of an OA policy
$215,000 Available to Publish Journal Articles: VT’s Open Access Subvention Fund
McMillan, Gail (Virginia Tech, 2021-10)
Course Description Learn from the Open Access Subvention Fund (OASF) manager how to get the library to pay the article processing charges (APCs) when your article is accepted by an OA journal that requires these fees. Since 2013 when Virginia Tech Libraries first made funds available, the OASF has grown to $215,000 to support articles published in scholarly OA journals. Everyone in the VT community—faculty, staff, and students, is eligible for support from the Libraries’ fund. In this session we will review the OASF award guidelines, identify journal and publisher databases to help you determine if a journal meets the funding criteria, locate OA journals in your field, and discuss VT’s new open access policy that was approved by the Board of Visitors in March 2021. If there’s time we will also talk about the Libraries’ publishing services, including open textbooks, and book subvention opportunities. Course Outcomes • Be familiar with the OASF award criteria • Gain knowledge of hybrid OA journals and publishers’ “double dipping” • Be familiar with sources of OA journals • Be aware of the VT OA policy
A 3D Data Preservation Model in Cross-Disciplinary Use
Kinnaman, Alex (2020-11-12)
This poster presents the results of a multi-case study on 3D datasets at Virginia Tech University Libraries and an invitation to participate in a survey on 3D and virtual reality preservation methods. These results will culminate in a proposed 3D/VR preservation workflow employed by VTUL on a current 3D digitization project.
$40,000 Still Available to Publish Your Open Access Article!
McMillan, Gail (Virginia Tech Libraries, 2017-03-03)
NLI Course (March1, 2017) Description If you're writing an article for a scholarly peer-reviewed journal, Virginia Tech Libraries will support the Article Publishing Charge of up to $1500 for an open access journal. In this session we will review Virginia Tech’s Open Access Subvention Fund award criteria, locate Open Access journals, and identify databases to help determine if the publisher meets the funding criteria. At the conclusion of the session you will be in a good position to have your next article funded, which you can link to your CV, FAR, or P&T dossier. Come prepared to also learn more about the Libraries’ publishing services.
The 5 P's of DH: Project Management, Preservation, Policies, Procedures, and Prosopographies
Kinnaman, Alex; Guimont, Corinne (2019-10-14)
Creating sustainable, preservable Digital Humanities (DH) projects is a challenge that is often left until after project completion if considered at all. This presentation explores a case study that is implementing a strategy of project management, preservation planning, and documentation early in development as a framework for preserving DH projects.
Academic Libraries: How do we put it all together, become agile, and adapt?
Walters, Tyler (Virginia Tech, 2018-11-07)
Across the Miles: Engagement Across Distance
Walz, Anita R.; Gilbert, Charla; Cash, Debbie (2015-05-08)
This professional practice session covers expansion and redefinition of student and faculty-focused library services between Virginia Tech’s main campus in Blacksburg and the National Capital Region, located five hours away and in an entirely different context. A team of collaborators in a recently realigned department discuss their model for planning and initiating for change. In the Summer of 2014, Virginia Tech libraries were strategically realigned to better meet strategic directions and aspirations as documented in VT Libraries 2012-2018 Strategic Plan. One of these shifts included development of a new unit “Planning and Branch Operations” which includes many library operational duties, oversight of three branches, a research commons, and “planning and assessing the Libraries’ presence in the National Capital Region.” In line with the President’s “Strategic Plan: A Plan for a New Horizon. Envisioning Virginia Tech 2012-2018” http://www.president.vt.edu/strategic-plan/2012-plan/2012-strategic-plan.pdf library faculty and staff began to meet to discuss extending, enhancing, envisioning, and expanding library services within the National Capital Region. This resulted in a process to simultaneously gather information, improve problematic services with immediate impact, and plan mid- and long- term directions for extension and expansion of library services in the National Capital Region. This presentation tells the story of how a team of several individuals from Virginia Tech’s Blacksburg and National Capital Region-Falls Church campuses, in partnership with colleagues at various sites in the National Capital Region expanded offerings of the NCR-Resource Center, leveraged a new strategic focus on institutional expansion in Northern Virginia, partnered to provide multiple service-types from afar, and customized these services to address the unique needs of Virginia Tech faculty, staff, and students in the National Capital Region. Services developed and expanded as a result of this collaboration include, but are not limited to: improved collection circulation systems and procedures, establishment, extension and expansion of onsite or remotely-provided services (event capture, statistical consulting, data management training/planning . . . ), and increased collaboration with initiatives unique to the needs of VT faculty, staff, and students affiliated with the seven locations in Northern Virginia.
Adaptable Course Materials: Creating an Open Textbook for Electromagnetics
Walz, Anita R.; Ellingson, Steven (2018-02-15)
We describe the purpose, process, and product of developing the open textbook. Electromagnetics, Volume 1 (Beta) by Ellingson (2018) is a faculty-authored, LaTeX based, customizable, and openly licensed textbook (licensed Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike CC BY SA 4.0) published through VT Publishing of the University Libraries and publicly released as a Beta version. This poster explores the potential and process of reusing, developing, and publicly sharing modular and customizable course materials (open textbooks) licensed with Creative Commons licenses in support of addressing faculty desire for more flexible, adaptable, and lower cost course materials. Electromagnetics Volume 1 (Beta) was published in January 2018 by VT Publishing and made possible in part by the Virginia Tech University Libraries’ Open Education Faculty Initiative Grant Program. The text is currently being field tested Spring 2018 ECE 3105 with ancillaries, LaTeX source code, and new print and electronic versions expected to be released in Summer 2018. It is freely and publicly available at: https://doi.org/10.7294/W4WQ01ZM A low-cost print on demand version of Volume 1 BETA is also available via Amazon.com for under $30. This textbook is part of the Open Electromagnetics Project at Virginia Tech. The goal of the project is to create no-cost openly-licensed content for courses in undergraduate engineering electromagnetics. The project is motivated by two things: lowering learning material costs for students and giving faculty the freedom to adopt, modify, and improve their educational resources.
Adult Literacy for Incarcerated Adults: Using a community approach and peer-mentors to create access to Open Educational Resources
Scales, Glenda R.; Walz, Anita R. (2022-09-08)
Invited presentation for the Correctional Services Literacy and Reading Symposium, Drakenstein Correctional Centre, Western Cape, South Africa.
Advancing OER & Open Education on Your Campus
Walz, Anita R. (2018-10-19)
Invited keynote presentation. This event was sponsored by Central Virginia Community College and Achieving the Dream Open Educational Resources Initiative.
Affordable (and free!) course materials: What, why and where to find them
Walz, Anita R. (Virginia Tech, 2023-05-16)
This presentation was delivered during Virginia Tech's Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning Course Design Clinic. It is used in a 30-minute, interactive session and is intended to provide timely and immediately useful information for faculty engaged designing or redesigning courses. It features library support and resources available to faculty and students through the University Libraries, and open educational resources (OER) available to anyone in the general public with internet access.
Albatross: Rolling on a sea of data
Bailey, Annette; Gilmore, Tracy; O'Brien, Leslie; Wright de Hernandez, Anthony (2016-11-03)
Big deals and journal package incentives are an increasing reality for academic libraries, yet the solutions for evaluating these package scenarios in a timely, cost-effective manner are few. The proliferation of these offers requires the examination of numerous and complex questions. There is a need to know the utilization and strength of a package, the inflation costs for various titles and packages, and the ability to identify cost trends. A team of librarians at Virginia Tech created a solution for addressing these concerns and for managing their journal data by designing and developing an in-house database. Albatross, named in reference to The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, is a database created to gather journal usage data and cost data in a central environment where the data can then be queried to use in return-on-investment analysis and journal package assessments.
Altmetrics
McMillan, Gail (2013-08-07)
This is a brief introduction to the topic of "alternative metrics" for University Libraries.
Answering the Hard Questions: Prepare to Succeed in Developing Data Services
Porter, Nathaniel D.; Comer, C. Cozette (2022-09-21)
If you are looking to develop or expand your data services, you’ll face some hard questions: How can you use your current service model to identify achievable and flexible goals? What are the unique considerations in building library data services in a university or hospital setting? How can you develop service and funding partnerships with limited time and budgets? In this webinar, you’ll learn how to answer these questions and set a path for success using a model based on SMART principles, which emphasizes general best practices for capacity-building through initiatives and partnerships and avoids one-size-fits-all solutions. You’ll learn how to do outcome-oriented planning with limited resources, build networks of partners and advocates, and use continual evaluation to dynamically adjust as your resources and needs shift. You’ll get access to a website with supplemental materials, including slides outlining the presentation and example templates for needs assessment interviews, and planning and evaluation exercises.
Assessing Student Needs Through Discovery
Hall, Monena; Lancaster, Charla; Mathews, Brian (2013-04-23)
Discovery Teams were created to boost the Library’s R&D effort. Annually, University Libraries at Virginia Tech will collectively explore a theme through hands-on experience. For Spring 2012 the topic was: The Learning Process. This poster combines and presents the findings and potential directions based on the feedback from this research.
Batch Editing, Loading, and Authority Control
Finn, Mary; Doyle, Jana; Reece, Terry (Innovative Users Group Conference 2011, 2007)
Big Data Text Summarization: Using Deep Learning to Summarize Theses and Dissertations
Ahuja, Naman; Bansal, Ritesh; Ingram, William A.; Jude, Palakh; Kahu, Sampanna; Wang, Xinyue (Virginia Tech, 2018-12-05)
Team 16 in the fall 2018 course "CS 4984/5984 Big Data Text Summarization," in partnership with the University Libraries and the Digital Library Research Laboratory, prepared a corpus of electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) for students to study natural language processing with the power of state-of-the-art deep learning technology. The ETD corpus is made up of 13,071 doctoral dissertations and 17,890 master theses downloaded from the University Libraries’ VTechWorks system. This particular study is designed to explore big data summarization for ETDs, which is a relatively under-explored area. The result of the project will help to address the difficulty of information extraction from ETD documents, the potential of transfer learning on automatic summarization of ETD chapters, and the quality of state-of-the-art deep learning summarization technologies when applied to the ETD corpus. The goal of this project is to generate chapter level abstractive summaries for an ETD collection through deep learning. Major challenges of the project include accurately extracting well-formatted chapter text from PDF files, and the lack of labeled data for supervised deep learning models. For PDF processing, we compare two state of the art scholarly PDF data extraction tools, Grobid and Science-Parse, which generate structured documents from which we can further extract metadata and chapter level text. For the second challenge, we perform transfer learning by training supervised learning models on a labeled dataset of Wikipedia articles related to the ETD collection. Our experimental models include Sequence-to-Sequence and Pointer Generator summarization models. Besides supervised models, we also experiment with an unsupervised reinforcement model, Fast Abstractive Summarization-RL. The general pipeline for our experiments consists of the following steps: PDF data processing and chapter extraction, collecting a training data set of Wikipedia articles, manually creating human generated gold standard summaries for testing and validation, building deep learning models for chapter summarization, evaluating and tuning the models based on results, and then iteratively refining the whole process.
Blazing a Trail for Literacy Exploration Through Design Thinking
Feerrar, Julia; Nino, Miguel (Miko) (2019-05-10)
As learners navigate increasingly complex information wilds and explore new forms of creation, libraries are discussing and supporting a variety of literacies, including data, invention, health, information, media, visual, and digital literacies. How can librarians chart a path through varying definitions and priorities for these literacies in relation to existing instruction programs? This interactive workshop gave participants opportunities to explore new or unfamiliar literacies. Using design thinking strategies, participants reflected on the current landscape of one literacy at their institution and created a prototype output to help them start conversations with collaborators and stakeholders.
Blockchain: What is it and why should we care? (Special Focus Session)
Bhatia, Sharmila; Wright de Hernandez, Anthony; Stewart, Meredith (Virginia Tech, 2018-08-18)
Blockchain, or distributed ledger, is being described as the next disruptive technology. This session gives attendees an overview of the technology: what it is, how it works, and why archivists and records managers should be interested. Government agencies and businesses are exploring uses for this technology and potential use cases include digital identity, land titling, and smart contracts.
Book Publishing Workshop 2021 with Peter Potter and Nadine Zimmerli
Potter, Peter J. (2021-04-07)
Peter Potter (Director, Virginia Tech Publishing) and Nadine Zimmerli (History & Social Sciences Editor, University of Virginia Press) held a virtual book publishing workshop on Wednesday, April 7, 2021, from 10:00 AM to 11:30 AM. The workshop provided an opportunity for faculty to learn more about the changing world of academic book publishing in the humanities and social sciences. Topics of discussion included:

How to locate the appropriate publisher for your work

How to prepare an attractive prospectus

How to turn your thesis into a book

The peer review process

Financial realities of scholarly publishing

Open Access and new digital horizons

What to expect of your publisher and what your publisher will expect of you

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