As Virginia Tech University Libraries transition public spaces to more user-focused, service oriented, collaborative spaces, we found it imperative to determine how students use available space, and to develop methods of ...

Do publishers and editors of scholarly journals view theses and dissertations that are readily available on the Internet and through convenient Web browsers as prior publications? This has been a topic of discussion for ...

In this FDI (Faculty Development Institute) class at Virginia Tech, the goal is for attendees to gain a better understanding of Open Access--unrestricted access to scholarship, increase their mastery of their copyrights, ...

Scholarly communication discussion topics for Track K (From Kindles to Open Access: The New Ecosystem of Digital Publishing) at Virginia Tech's Faculty Development Institute, June 27, 2013, 10:30 am.

Course Materials Online: Connecting the classroom with the library

These slides were presented to two groups of faculty at the University of Richmond following an invitation from Lucretia McCulley to lead a presentation and discussion on the current state of scholarly publishing "to educate ...

This presentation was given as a preconference session at the Virginia Library Association Annual Conference 2015. Librarians of all types can benefit from learning about the Open Educational Resources movement: what ...

This OER Update, provided at the request of the Virginia Scholarly Communication Interest Group, provides an overview of the values underpinning open education, the complexity of higher education and commercial actor ...

This presentation is intended to for an introductory level audience interested in learning about Creative Commons licenses, which form the basis for open educational resources. It covers potential benefits of licensing ...

This presentation is part of a panel presentation at Open Repository 2015, Fedora Technical Working Group - Assessment of Fedora 4.