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Report of the Scholarly Communications Task Force
(Virginia Tech, 1994-05-10)
This report was distributed at the May 12th meeting of the Library Administrative Council (LAC) and put on the agenda for discussion at its next meeting. On May 19, 1994 this report was discussed, many of the questions it ...
do open access electronic theses and dissertations diminish publishing opportunities in the social sciences and humanities? findings from a 2011 survey of academic publishers
(ACRL Publications, 2013-07)
An increasing number of higher education institutions worldwide are requiring submission of electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) by graduate students and are subsequently providing open access to these works in online ...
The Insitutional Repository's Role in Preserving Research Data
(Virginia Tech, 2012-07-25)
In recent years, many funding agencies have started to require long-term preservation and open access to research data. While most research universities have already run their own institutional repositories (IR), it's not ...
VT OASF FY2015 Report
(Virginia Tech Libraries, 2015-07-30)
The VT OASF was allocated $50,000 in FY2015 from the Libraries' Collections budget. The OASF received 88 requests to fund publishers' article processing charges totaling $129,967. We approved 48 articles (55%), awarding ...
Summary of the Two-year (FY13-FY14) Open Access Subvention Fund Pilot Project
(Virgnia Tech Libraries, 2014-07-02)
Virginia Tech began subsidizing article processing fees for authors publishing scholarly peer reviewed articles in open access and hybrid OA journals in August 2012, following the approval of "The Proposal for a Virginia ...
Virginia Tech's Open Access Subvention Fund FY 2016 Report
(Virgnia Tech Libraries, 2016-08-12)
VT Libraries Dean Tyler Walters initially allocated the 2016 OASF $60,000. As funds were awarded to support article processing charges (APC) in open access journals and the OASF was depleted, Scholarly Communication added ...
Digital Images for the Virginia Tech Digital Library
(Virginia Tech, 1996-03-20)
All images photographed or copied by a unit of Information Systems will be scanned and contributed to the Virginia Tech Digital Library. The digital images will be browsable and findable through word searching textual ...
Virginia Tech's Open Access Subvention Fund FY 2017 Report
(Virgnia Tech Libraries, 2017-07-31)
VT Libraries Dean Tyler Walters allocated the 2017 OASF $100,000 to support article processing charges (APC) in open access journals. The Libraries received 110 requests for $134,867 in APCs, and awarded $104,699 to support ...
Do Open Access Electronic Theses and Dissertations Diminish Publishing Opportunities in the Social Sciences and Humanities?
(Association of College and Research Libraries, 2012-04)
An increasing number of higher education institutions worldwide are requiring submission of electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) by graduate students and are subsequently providing open access to these works in online ...
Do Open Access Electronic Theses and Dissertations Diminish Publishing Opportunities in the Sciences?
(Association of College and Research Libraries, 2013-10)
In academia, there is a growing acceptance of sharing the final electronic version of graduate
work, such as a thesis or dissertation, in an online university repository. Though previous studies have
shown that journal ...