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GIS Trends and Open Access

Presentation for the 2016 Open Access Symposium discussing Geographic Information Systems (GIS) software and data in relation to open access initiatives.
Date: May 20, 2016
Creator: Burns, Douglas & Rodriguez, Allyson
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

OA Monographs: The Cost of Creating Them Today To Make Them Open For Tomorrow

This presentation contains findings from a 2015 Mellon-funded study to understand the costs of publishing monographs, and their next steps in building a tool to estimate publishing costs.
Date: May 20, 2016
Creator: Maron, Nancy
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Sustaining OA with Publishing Cooperatives

This presentation reports on the MacArthur-funded Open Access Publishing Cooperative Study, which is investigating the viability of publishing cooperatives through an examination of pilot projects in Africa, Canada, and the United States.
Date: May 20, 2016
Creator: Stranack, Kevin
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

SHARE in Open Science and Open Access

This presentation contains an overview of SHARE, an open dataset repository to track research projects across the research lifecycle.
Date: May 20, 2016
Creator: Walters, Tyler
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Fair Open Access: A Roadmap

This presentation provides a model for flipping subscription journals to Open Access using Linguistics in Open Access (LingOA) as an example.
Date: May 20, 2016
Creator: Rooryck, Johan
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Open Minds But Closed Access. Why Are There So Few Gold Open Access LIS Journals? And Why Are So Many Librarians Unwilling To Unlock Their Scholarship?

This presentation contains an evaluation of the open access availability of library and information science literature.
Date: May 20, 2016
Creator: Baker, Sarah & Chaudhuri, Jayati
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Improving Openness of Scholarly Communication

This presentation contains an overview of the Open Science Framework as a free, open scholarly commons.
Date: May 20, 2016
Creator: Nosek, Brian
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Why Science is Better with Communism? The Case of Sci-Hub

This presentation will discuss why intellectual property rights, in the form of copyright law, are contradictory to science as an enterprise, and will draw on the example of Sci-Hub.
Date: May 20, 2016
Creator: Elbakyan, Alexandra
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Evaluation of Online-Only Journal Quality from Analysis of Email Solicitations

This presentation contains an analysis of ~600 solicitation emails related to 317 scholarly journals received within a one-year period to assess the quality of publishing venues available.
Date: May 20, 2016
Creator: Burggren, Warren W.
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Texas Register, Volume 41, Number 21, Pages 3563-3788, May 20, 2016 (open access)

Texas Register, Volume 41, Number 21, Pages 3563-3788, May 20, 2016

A weekly publication, the Texas Register serves as the journal of state agency rulemaking for Texas. Information published in the Texas Register includes proposed, adopted, withdrawn and emergency rule actions, notices of state agency review of agency rules, governor's appointments, attorney general opinions, and miscellaneous documents such as requests for proposals. After adoption, these rulemaking actions are codified into the Texas Administrative Code.
Date: May 20, 2016
Creator: Texas. Secretary of State.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Display of the Confederate Flag at Federal Cemeteries in the United States (open access)

Display of the Confederate Flag at Federal Cemeteries in the United States

This report discusses policies regarding the display of the Confederate Flag at national cemeteries. If a state observes a Confederate Memorial Day, National Park Service (NPS) cemeteries in the state may permit a sponsoring group to decorate the graves of Confederate veterans with small Confederate flags. Additionally, such flags may also be displayed on the nationally observed Memorial Day, to accompany the U.S. flag on the graves of Confederate veterans.
Date: May 20, 2016
Creator: Comay, Laura B. & Szymendera, Scott D.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
DOT's Federal Pipeline Safety Program: Background and Key Issues for Congress (open access)

DOT's Federal Pipeline Safety Program: Background and Key Issues for Congress

This report reviews the history of federal programs for pipeline safety, significant safety issues, and recent developments focusing on key issues for Congress.
Date: May 20, 2016
Creator: Parfomak, Paul W.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Zika Response Funding: Request and Congressional Action (open access)

Zika Response Funding: Request and Congressional Action

This report presents the Administration's request for supplemental appropriations for the Zika response. It includes sections outlining Congressional actions, the emergency supplemental appropriations request for Zika response efforts -- by both U.S. health and human services agencies and international assistance programs -- and information about unobligated Ebola response funds.
Date: May 20, 2016
Creator: Epstein, Susan B. & Lister, Sarah A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Federal Prison Population Buildup: Options for Congress (open access)

The Federal Prison Population Buildup: Options for Congress

This report discusses a number of policy avenues lawmakers could consider, should Congress choose to address the growth in the federal prison population.
Date: May 20, 2016
Creator: James, Nathan
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Treasury Issues White Paper on Fintech and Marketplace Lending (open access)

Treasury Issues White Paper on Fintech and Marketplace Lending

This report briefly discusses the context and contents of a white paper issued on May 10, 2016 by the U.S. Department of the Treasury. The paper analyzes regulatory issues for the marketplace lending industry and offers several recommendations for industry and government responses.
Date: May 20, 2016
Creator: Murphy, Edward V.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
U.S.-Vietnam Economic and Trade Relations: Issues for the 114th Congress (open access)

U.S.-Vietnam Economic and Trade Relations: Issues for the 114th Congress

This report examines the bilateral trade issues between United States and Vietnam, discussing their main elements and exploring their potential implications for the 114th Congress.
Date: May 20, 2016
Creator: Martin, Michael F.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Pay Equity: Legislative and Legal Developments (open access)

Pay Equity: Legislative and Legal Developments

This report begins by presenting data on earnings for male and female workers and by discussing explanations that have been offered for the differences in earnings. It next discusses the major laws directed at eliminating sex-based wage discrimination as well as relevant federal court cases. The report closes with a description of pay equity legislation that has been considered or enacted by Congress in recent years.
Date: May 20, 2016
Creator: Feder, Jody & Collins, Benjamin
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Making an Open Information Age: Power, Freedom and Inequality in an Age of Bits captions transcript

Making an Open Information Age: Power, Freedom and Inequality in an Age of Bits

Video of the session "Making an Open Information Age: Power, Freedom and Inequality in an Age of Bits," which explores why we can and must create a world of open information and its implications for technology, politics, laws, and economics.
Date: May 20, 2016
Creator: Pollock, Rufus
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
Reflections on the Symposium...and the Library Publishing Forum captions transcript

Reflections on the Symposium...and the Library Publishing Forum

Video of the panel session "Reflections on the Symposium...and the Library Publishing Forum," discussing emerging themes from the discussions of the Library Publishing Forum and the UNT Open Access Symposium.
Date: May 20, 2016
Creator: Berkery, Peter & Pitcher, Katherine
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
SHARE in Open Science and Open Access captions transcript

SHARE in Open Science and Open Access

Video of the presentation "SHARE in Open Science and Open Access," discussing the development of SHARE, an openly available dataset that enables the tracking of research objects across the research lifecycle.
Date: May 20, 2016
Creator: Walters, Tyler
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
Perceptions of Open Access captions transcript

Perceptions of Open Access

Video of the panel session "Perceptions of Open Access," discussing perceptions of open access through an analysis of journal solicitation emails, a study of library science open access journals, and a discussion of the future of open access.
Date: May 20, 2016
Creator: Burggren, Warren W.; Baker, Sarah & Sandlin, Joslyn
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
Open Educational Resources: Reducing Costs, Expanding Access, and Improving Efficacy captions transcript

Open Educational Resources: Reducing Costs, Expanding Access, and Improving Efficacy

Video of the presentation "Open Educational Resources: Reducing Costs, Expanding Access, and Improving Efficacy," with an overview of the open educational resources movement, how it is playing out on campus, and research showing the impact on students.
Date: May 20, 2016
Creator: Allen, Nicole
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
From Subscription to Open Access: A Roadmap captions transcript

From Subscription to Open Access: A Roadmap

Video of the keynote presentation "From Subscription to Open Access: A Roadmap," which provides a model for flipping subscription journals to Open Access using Linguistics in Open Access (LingOA) as an example.
Date: May 20, 2016
Creator: Rooryck, Johan
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
Sustaining Open Access captions transcript

Sustaining Open Access

Video of the panel session "Sustaining Open Access" with presentations discussing open access publishing, specifically through the Open Access Publishing Cooperative Study, the Lethbridge Journal Incubator, and the Digital Monograph P+L tool to estimate full publishing costs.
Date: May 20, 2016
Creator: Stranack, Kevin; O'Donnell, Daniel Paul & Maron, Nancy
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library