Papers, Presentations & Training Materials

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This collection contains white papers, conference presentations, and instructional materials developed on behalf of the Libraries' digital scholarly publishing and open access initiatives.

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PIVOT:Funding Database Available Through the Library Instructions
(2022-09-13) Herbert, Bruce, E.
Pivot allows research administrators, research development professionals, and individual faculty members the ability to search and track the right research funding opportunities — quickly and easily. It provides global and local connections that strengthen research by exploring new avenues for funding and collaboration—for faculty, staff researchers, and graduate students.
Faculty Reputation & Impact: Library Systems Information Sheets
(2022-09-13) Herbert, Bruce E.
Libraries’ systems and bibliometric databases can be used to enhance faculty reputation and craft scholarly narratives required for tenure and promotion. We advocate for four, research-based strategies: craft your narrative, build your digital identity, make your work accessible, and justify your narrative with metrics We have included a collection of information sheets on strategies and use of Libraries’ systems and bibliometric databases to support your efforts to enhance your scholarly or creative reputation.
Publish Open Access Info Sheets
(2022-09-13) Herbert, Bruce E.
There are strong ethical and practical arguments on why much of Texas A&M’s research should be published open access, especially research that addresses important societal challenges and needs. Open access (OA) is a set of principles and a range of practices through which research outputs are distributed online, free of access charges or other barriers. Now that the OAK Fund has been discontinued by the University Libraries, we have included a collection of information sheets on strategies and use of Libraries’ systems and resources to help you publish open access.
OAK Fund Annual Report: 2020-2021
(2021-11-09) McGeachin, Robert; Herbert, Bruce
The Open Access to Knowledge (OAK) Fund at Texas A&M underwrites publication charges for scholarly journal articles, book chapters, and monographs published in open access publications in order to encourage the shift to publishing Texas A&M’s research that is free of subscription barriers and support the transition of scholarship towards open science models1 that can help meet Texas A&M’s strategic goals. The OAK Fund has benefitted from strong support for the past couple of years from the Office of the Vice President of Research and the University Libraries. In 2019-2020, this support allowed us last year to fund open access publications authored by 248 faculty, staff and graduate students from 11 colleges/research organizations and five campuses. Unfortunately, the Vice President of Research withdrew their support for the OAK Fund in 2020-2021. Therefore, for FY21, due to the loss of funding for OAK Fund from the Office of the VPR, we only funded one paper per author per year, with the funding cap per paper set to $2,000. Major outcomes for 2020-2021: • The OAK Fund distributed funds to 118 faculty, staff and graduate students from 11 colleges/research organizations and four campuses. • The OAK Fund supported the publication fees for 42 articles for a total amount of funding distributed of $61,803. Given our reduced funding for 2020-2021, we changed two rules to maximize the number of authors we could support: • Amended the OAK Fund rules to support an author only once per year. • Amended the OAK Fund rules to lower the maximum support per article from $3000.00 to $2000.00.
Advancing Scholarly Communications Innovations among the Campus Community: A Change Model
(2021-06-13) Herbert, Bruce
Widespread adoption of open access and open educational resources among the academic community requires significant shifts in the practices of teaching, scholarship and publication. Both university libraries and student governments can be powerful champions and change agents to support new practices that address open access. For instance, the National Association of Graduate-Professional Students (NAGPS) has been a strong proponent of both free, online access to research articles and Open Educational Resources—promoting these issues at the campus, state, and national levels through their more than 90-member graduate student governments. Yet programs that seek to support transformational change in higher education are often unsuccessful. As Kezar and Eckel (2002) write “Transformational change is unfamiliar to most higher education institutions; it (a) alters the culture of the institution by changing select underlying assumptions and institutional behaviors, processes, and products; (b) is deep and pervasive, affecting the whole institution; (c) is intentional; and (d) occurs over time.” In a longitudinal study of organizational change at 25 higher educational institutions, Kezar and Eckel (2002) found that “…five core strategies (were) common across (successful) institutions were identified: senior administrative support; collaborative leadership; systemic, iterative design; professional development; and visible action. Strategies occurred simultaneously or in clusters rather than sequentially, as presented in the higher education change literature. What made these five strategies so powerful was their ability to help individuals conceptualize a new identity, to feel worthwhile about their efforts, and to be brought along with the institutional agenda—what is labeled sensemaking. Sensemaking is the reciprocal process where people seek information, assign it meaning, and act. It is the collective process of structuring meaningful sense out of uncertain and ambiguous organizational situations. Sensemaking allows people to craft, understand, and accept new conceptualizations of the organization and then to act in ways consistent with those new interpretations and perceptions. Visible action is important because it demonstrates the outcomes of all the hard work, reinforcing the new sense made during the change process. Sensemaking was the underlying characteristic that made these strategies essential.”
Libraries Information Sheets Supporting Faculty Reputation and Impact
(2021-05-25) Herbert, Bruce E.; Lee, Dong Joon; Lowe, David B.
Libraries’ systems and bibliometric databases can be used to enhance faculty reputation and craft scholarly narratives required for tenure and promotion. We advocate for four, research-based strategies: • Craft your narrative • Build your digital identity • Make your work accessible • Justify your narrative with metrics We have included a collection of information sheets on strategies and use of Libraries’ systems and bibliometric databases to support your efforts to enhance your scholarly or creative reputation.
Using Dimensions to Evaluate Postgraduate Success of Texas A&M’s PhD students in Research Careers
(2021-05-19) Herbert, Bruce
Tracking the success of PhD students while enrolled at your institution and post-graduation can help improve graduate programs as well as support accreditation and graduate program reviews. Until recently, Texas A&M recorded and tracked PhD students’ progress while they were attending A&M, but rarely after they graduate. Recently, The University Libraries of Texas A&M obtained an annual license for Dimensions, which allows them to characterize the research of former graduate students with an aim to improve graduate programs. In this webinar, Dr. Bruce Herbert of Texas A&M will highlight the results of their pilot project to characterize the research careers of a small number of recent graduates of their PhD programs as an example of the type of analyses that could be done with bibliometric data. Dr. Bruce Herbert is Professor of Geology and currently serves as the Director of the Office of Scholarly Communications in the Sterling C. Evans library At Texas A&M. As Director of OSC, Dr. Herbert is responsible for strengthening the Library’s efforts in scholarly communications and open access through engagement and collaboration with the faculty across campus at Texas A&M University.
Crafting Your Narrative: Digital Identity, Impact, & Metrics
(2020-05-12) Herbert, Bruce E.
Presentation on crafting a scholarly or creative narrative for faculty at Texas A&M University, including best practice on the use of metrics to justify the narrative.
Research Distancing Support Through University Libraries IT Systems
(2020-04-16) Herbert, Bruce; Watts, John
Now that faculty have likely responded to the immediate needs of moving their courses online, many will consider how they can manage their research programs while sheltering at home. For some faculty, their normal research practices may be difficult to replicate at home. The University Libraries have expertise in information management and the design and implementation of information technology systems that help make Texas A&M research discoverable, curated and preserved; help enhance the scholarly identity of Texas A&M scholars and students; and increase the global reach and societal impact of research teams. We provide specialized IT systems, and training and guidance on workflows and standards. University Libraries IT systems and expertise is a resource for researchers looking to adapt their research practices while sheltering at home. Our systems support open science and open scholarship practices that support efficient information management by research teams and increase the transparency and accessibility of Texas A&M’s scholarly research. Below, Libraries systems and services are organized by major stages of the research lifecycle.
Great Poster Presentations
(2020-04-02) Herbert, Bruce
Some ideas on the design and presentation of a great poster.
OAK Fund Annual Report: 2018-2019
(2019-11-22) McGeachin, Robert; Herbert, Bruce
The Open Access to Knowledge (OAK) Fund at Texas A&M underwrites author publication charges for open access scholarly journal articles, book chapters, and monographs. The fund seeks to encourage greater participation in open access publishing so that Texas A&M’s research is free of subscription barriers and we support the adoption of open science practices that can help meet Texas A&M’s vision as a land grant, space-grant and sea-grant institution. Numerous research studies show that OA publishing increases the visibility of publications, thereby increasing visibility, citations and the use of faculty research all of which enhance the reputation of A&M and its faculty. Major outcomes for 2018-2019 include (1) the OAK Fund distributed funds to 256 faculty, staff and graduate students from 13 colleges/research organizations on five campuses, and (2) the OAK Fund supported the publication fees for 75 articles and one book chapter for a total amount of funding distributed of $105,000.
Instructions on Setting up a Search in Pivot
(2015-09-15)
Pivot is a research funding database provided to the TAMU community by the Texas A&M University Libraries and the Vice Chancellor for Research. PIVOT allows research administrators, research development professionals, and individual faculty members the ability to search and track the right research funding opportunities. This document provides detailed instructions on setting up PIVOT for customized research funding searches.
OAK Fund Annual Report: 2017-2018
(2018-09-17) Herbert, Bruce E.; McGeachin, Robert
The Open Access to Knowledge (OAK) Fund at Texas A&M underwrites publication charges for scholarly journal articles, book chapters, and monographs published in open access publications in order to encourage the shift to publishing Texas A&M’s research that is free of subscription barriers and support the transition of scholarship towards open science models1 that can help meet Texas A&M’s strategic goals. Major outcomes for 2017-2018: (1) the OAK Fund distributed funds to 300 faculty, staff and graduate students from 13 colleges/research organizations and five campuses, (2) the OAK Fund supported the publication fees for 77 articles and two book chapters for a total amount of funding distributed of $105,842. In the past we received a number of communications from TAMU faculty concerning ineligible coauthors, so we made two procedural changes to address these concerns: (1) amended the OAK Fund eligibility rules to allow for support of graduate student authors, and (2) amended the OAK Fund eligibility rules to allow for support of non-TAMU coauthors when a TAMU author is the lead author on the paper as evidence by authorship sequence or corresponding author.
OAK Fund Annual Report: 2016-2017
(2018-09-17) Herbert, Bruce E.; McGeachin, Robert; Hubbard, David E.; Dabrowski, Anna J.
The Open Access to Knowledge (OAK) Fund at Texas A&M underwrites publication charges for scholarly journal articles, book chapters, and monographs published in open access publications in order to support and encourage the shift to publishing Texas A&M’s research that is free of subscription barriers. The OAK Fund distributed funds to 194 faculty in support of publication fees for 76 articles for a total amount of funding distributed of $75,448 in the 2016-2017 academic year. We received a number of communications from TAMU faculty concerning ineligible coauthors. We have two recommendations to address these concerns: (1) amend the OAK Fund eligibility rules to allow for support of graduate student authors, and (2) amend the OAK Fund eligibility rules to allow for support of non-TAMU coauthors when a TAMU author is the lead author on the paper as evidence by authorship sequence or corresponding author.
OAK Fund Annual Report: 2015-2016
(2018-09-17) Herbert, Bruce E.; Hartnett, Eric; Hubbard, David E.; Dabrowski, Anna J.
The Open Access to Knowledge Fund (OAK Fund) at Texas A&M University is a program for underwriting publication fees for scholarly journal articles, book chapters, and monographs in fully Open Access publications. The OAK Fund was established in 2013 to help fulfill Texas A&M University’s commitment to the “Compact for Open Access Publishing Equity.” The goals of OAK Fund at Texas A&M University are to support and encourage: (1) Texas A&M University faculty, research staff, and graduate students (as of fiscal year 2015/2016) who lack another source of funding to publish in Open Access venues; (2) innovative scholarly publishing that takes advantage of digital networking technologies for distribution and Open Access; and (3) greater public access to Texas A&M University research and scholarship. The OAK Fund has been available to Texas A&M University authors for three years. In the 2015/2016 fiscal year, the Vice President for Research (VPR) and the Texas A&M University Libraries committed $35,000 and $50,000 to the fund, respectively. For the first time, additional funds were allocated to support graduate student authors; the Office of Graduate and Professional Studies (OGAPS) and the VPR each committed $2,500. This document reports on outcomes of the 2015/2016 OAK Fund program.
Open Educational Resources, Open Education, and Online Learning: Revolution, Evolution, or Just One More Fad?
(2018-06-14) Herbert, Bruce
Open education is being adopted at universities and colleges across the United States, reshaping the impact of and access to higher education. With increased adoption throughout the Texas A&M System, open education can help address important systemic issues, including: reducing educational costs, improving access to a college degree, enhancing student learning outcomes, and supporting instructional reform. This session will introduce you to open education concepts that will equip you to utilize open educational resources within your own institutions. As more educators share open educational resources, greater collaboration and shared knowledge is possible. This shift can increase access to quality educational possibilities, particularly in places that have not historically had these opportunities. Topics covered include: " Why Open matters; " The 5R activities and the Creative Commons licenses; " Finding, adopting, and creating OER " Strategies to advance OER adoption and use on your campus
An Open Access Policy at Texas A&M University
(2018-05-01) Hetland, Robert; Staack, David; Herbert, Bruce
Open access scholarly literature is “digital, online, free-of-charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions”1. An Open Access Policy reserves Open access policies directly support the mission of land grant universities by making publically supported research openly available. Universities around the world have created Open access policies to share their research so that society has equitable access to published scholarship. These policies generally allow authors to archive a copy of their publication in an institutional repository or published in an open access journal, in ways that help address both the price barriers and the permission barriers that undermine global access to the products of a university’s scholarly and creative work. Over six hundred universities and research institutions worldwide, including more than half of our peer institutions (as defined by Vision 2020), have an open access policy2. The Faculty Senate Research sub-committee recommends that TAMU adopt an Open Access Policy. An open access policy at TAMU would be managed by the TAMU Libraries, who would provide the support to TAMU authors so they can archive an open access copy of their publication in our institutional repository so that the burden on the authors would be minimal. We are proposing the Faculty Senate as a whole vote on a resolution to recommend that the President’s office implement such a policy.
Productivity through data management (a.k.a. Writing an effective data management plan)
(2018-03-30) Dabrowski, Anna
Data management tools and practices
(2018-02-12) Dabrowski, Anna
Research Data Management Services
(2017-04-27) Dabrowski, Anna; Herbert, Bruce

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