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Friday, January 11, 2019
Capture the Essence of Your Research in a Single Image
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The University of Alberta Images of Research Competition & Exhibition is the ultimate test of knowledge transfer for any graduate student. The challenge is to portray your research in a single image. Are you up for the task?
Semifinalists will have their image and description immortalized in the University of Alberta's Education & Research Archive (ERA) Images of Research Collection.
Submissions will be accepted from January 21, 2018 to February 8, 2019. Visit the competition website for more details uab.ca/ior.
We will be holding two submission preparation workshops on January 17 and 23, 2019. The workshops are approved as Faculty of Graduate Studies & Research Professional Development credits. Register for the workshops here.
To spark inspiration here are some entries from the 2018 competition and visit the Rutherford Library Galleria's teaser exhibit happening throughout the month of January.
Augmented Phobia by Anna Chakravorty
The University of Alberta Images of Research Competition & Exhibition is brought forth through continued partnership of University of Alberta Libraries, Faculty of Graduate Studies & Research, and Campus Design and Print Solutions.
Follow competition updates on social media @uofalibraries @UAlbertaFGSR #ualbertaIOR
Thursday, November 30, 2017
Green vs Gold: Digging into Open Access Models
The world of open access contains a colourful array of options for researchers who want to make their findings publicly accessible. Terms like green OA, gold OA, and even diamond or platinum OA are often used by publishers and funding agencies to describe different kinds of "open," but the distinctions can be confusing!
Green Open Access mean that a version of the author's manuscript OR a copy of the published version of the article is made freely available through an institutional or subject repository, like ERA, PubMed Central, or arXiv.org. Green OA is usually free for the author, and may have conditions imposed by the journal. A recent article exploring the benefits of open science found that 72% of publishers allowed their articles to also be shared through green OA.
The University of Alberta Libraries can work with you or on your behalf to deposit your articles in our institutional repository, ERA: Education and Research Archive.
Gold Open Access means that the article is published by the journal as an open access article and is made available free of charge through the journal's publishing platform or website. Many (but not all) publishers charge article processing charges (or APCs) to authors to publish gold OA.
2. Green and Gold OA both meet the requirements of the Tri-Agency Open Access Policy on Publications.
If you are required by your granting agency to make your research OA, but aren't sure how, contact your subject librarian or the ERA Helpdesk as erahelp@ualberta.ca / 780-492-4359.
3. Green and Gold OA can peacefully co-exist. If an article is published in a gold OA journal, it can often be shared in an institutional repository as a green OA article. This can lead to greater exposure for OA articles, as well as provide additional safeguards for the long-term preservation of the article and allow institutions to display more complete collections of their researchers' works in their repositories.
4. There are better ways to understand how open a journal is. For example, the large non-profit OA publisher Public Library of Science (PLOS), the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC), and the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA) have created HowOpenIsIt.This guide looks at the openness of content for readers, the ease with which authors can share their work, and whether software programs can mine text and metadata.
Look up your favourite journals on the OA Spectrum Evaluation Tool and see how they stack up!
What you need to know:
1. Green and Gold labels don't refer the the level of openness or the value of either model; they refer to the way articles are being made open:Green Open Access mean that a version of the author's manuscript OR a copy of the published version of the article is made freely available through an institutional or subject repository, like ERA, PubMed Central, or arXiv.org. Green OA is usually free for the author, and may have conditions imposed by the journal. A recent article exploring the benefits of open science found that 72% of publishers allowed their articles to also be shared through green OA.The University of Alberta Libraries can work with you or on your behalf to deposit your articles in our institutional repository, ERA: Education and Research Archive. Gold Open Access means that the article is published by the journal as an open access article and is made available free of charge through the journal's publishing platform or website. Many (but not all) publishers charge article processing charges (or APCs) to authors to publish gold OA.
2. Green and Gold OA both meet the requirements of the Tri-Agency Open Access Policy on Publications.
If you are required by your granting agency to make your research OA, but aren't sure how, contact your subject librarian or the ERA Helpdesk as erahelp@ualberta.ca / 780-492-4359.
3. Green and Gold OA can peacefully co-exist. If an article is published in a gold OA journal, it can often be shared in an institutional repository as a green OA article. This can lead to greater exposure for OA articles, as well as provide additional safeguards for the long-term preservation of the article and allow institutions to display more complete collections of their researchers' works in their repositories.
4. There are better ways to understand how open a journal is. For example, the large non-profit OA publisher Public Library of Science (PLOS), the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC), and the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA) have created HowOpenIsIt.This guide looks at the openness of content for readers, the ease with which authors can share their work, and whether software programs can mine text and metadata.
Look up your favourite journals on the OA Spectrum Evaluation Tool and see how they stack up!
Tuesday, October 24, 2017
UAlberta Libraries: Open in Order to …
This week we’re celebrating Open Access Week 2017! The theme this year is “Open in order to _____”, so we thought we’d take some time to highlight some of the ways we support open access all year long.
The University of Alberta Libraries supports open in order to…
-make results of our researchers’ hard work available and visible to everyone, including other researchers, policy-makers, practitioners, students, and the general public,
-contribute to fair and equitable access to information for the widest possible audience,
-reduce the costs of education for students, and
-remove barriers to sharing and reusing research.
What are some of the ways we do this?
Our people:
We are experts in “open.” Our team helps researchers and students across the University navigate the world of open access, open data, and open education. Watch for workshops and events, or contact your subject librarian with specific questions. Throughout the Libraries, supporting open access, open data, and open education through our many diverse roles - from copyright and licensing expertise, to metadata and discovery work - is part of what we do every single day.
Our open access institutional repository:
The University of Alberta’s institutional repository, ERA: Education and Research Archive (and ERA A+V) provides free and open access to the University of Alberta’s intellectual output, including journal articles written by UofA researchers, theses and dissertations by UofA graduate students, reports, conference proceedings, posters, datasets, and more.ERA is an easy, convenient, and no-cost way for faculty to make their research open! For help depositing your work in ERA contact erahelp@ualberta.ca.
Our open publishing and digitization initiatives:
For more than 10 years, the UofA Libraries have been publishing open access journals, and now provide free-of-charge journal hosting for any open access Canadian journal. This service has expanded to include more than 45 titles, representing a diverse range of subject areas, from important local and Canadian journals to student and community publications. Using the open source software, Open Journal Systems, we've helped editorial teams publish thousands of articles, all freely accessible for researchers, policy makers, practitioners, and students around the world.
We also have been working hard to make important materials from our collections and partner libraries open and available through an extensive digitization program. Our Peel’s Prairie Provinces website hosts thousands of historic photos, newspapers, books and pamphlets we’ve digitized. Many collections once hidden on our shelves are now available online, open and free for anyone.
Open data:
Friday, August 18, 2017
Launch of ERA A+V
The platform is developed, hosted, and managed by UAlberta Libraries. While browsing ERA A+V, you’ll notice that you can easily create playlists and embed videos into other websites. The service provides powerful multimedia streaming functionality and allows for CCID protection of files. Additionally, audiovisual content from ERA A+V can be further restricted to certain audiences (e.g. a specific class), which helps instructors abide by copyright restrictions.
“ERA A+V provides many opportunities for researchers to easily share their audio and video content,” explains Sean Luyk, ERA A+V Service Manager and Music Librarian. “With the launch of this platform, the University community has the ability to host its own digital audiovisual content in a secure environment built for the needs of the academic community, in support of the increasing use of media content in research and teaching .”
Umar Qasim, Digital Preservation Officer and ERA A+V Technical Manager, adds, “At the libraries, we are very focused on the preservation of digital materials for long-term access. Ongoing efforts and resources are required to ensure the longevity of digital information. ERA A+V is an initiative that will help ensure that audio-visual content from the University will be accessible for many years to come, and is properly managed and curated. ”
How long is long term exactly? Could be 10 years, 100 years or even more.
Two engaging collections that you can already browse (make sure to log in to access all content) are:
- World of Story - audio recordings of traditional folk tales read in 20 different languages, created by the Edmonton Mennonite Centre for Newcomers, for the purpose of language learning. You can listen to “The Enormous Turnip” in Tigrinya, the “Bundle of Sticks” in Arabic or “The Stranger Who Snored” in Mandarin, just to list a few examples.
- The Nosotros Television Programme - an Edmonton-produced Spanish language TV program for the Latin American community. The programme, founded by Lito Azócar, represents the views, history and memory of local Latin American communities in Alberta and is a rich source of information for those studying these communities.
If you would like to add your audiovisual recordings to ERA A+V, please fill out our form. We can’t wait to hear from you and hear about your audio-visual projects.
What’s next for ERA A+V? The UofA Libraries are currently in the process of depositing the 50 year archive (1967-present) of recordings of performances at the UofA’s illustrious Convocation Hall.
Check out the ERA A+V description page on the Libraries website for more information and to learn about our our service policies.
Monday, November 28, 2016
Celebrate Graduate Student Research! Fall 2016 Convocation ETDs now available in ERA: Education and Research Archive
Twice a year the Library releases some very special digital works into the world: University of Alberta graduates’ theses and dissertations! Congratulations to all these graduate students and their supervisors who have convocated in Fall 2016 for all your hard work and perseverance. Over 600 electronic theses and dissertations became available openly on the web on November 15! We would like to celebrate this event by highlighting the value of the unique and important collection of electronic theses and dissertations at University of Alberta Libraries.
The University of Alberta Libraries has always taken its responsibility to preserve theses and dissertations very seriously, as we hold the ‘last copy’ of all of these works whether in paper format of the past or today’s electronic format. As long-term stewards of these unique and precious works, we do everything we can to ensure their long-term survival.
For us, these theses also represent a revolution in open access. Theses used to be accessible only by special request. These works, representing the culmination of many years of graduate student research, and often containing important, original, and cutting edge discoveries, were challenging for other researchers to access, or were only available through subscription electronic databases. Now electronic theses are available openly on the web - a change that has taken place at virtually every major research institution around the world.
In 2009 UAL partnered with the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research to develop the policy and infrastructure necessary to offer students the choice of submitting a traditional paper thesis submitting their thesis electronically. Over 90% of students immediately chose the digital open access option, immediately exceeding all our expectations. In April 2014, FGSR finalized a policy that requires all theses are submitted electronically.
Today, theses are openly shared and preserved digitally in ERA: Education and Research Archive, the University of Alberta’s institutional repository. We’ve also shared over 15,000 digitized theses in ERA, for a total of over 19,000 digital theses available online for the use of researchers, practitioners, legislators, students, and proud families of our grad students worldwide. Of course, we also continue to care for and preserve those theses in print format that are in our collection which are held at the Book and Record Depository - these can be requested and accessed at the Bruce Peel Special Collections Library.
Although we don’t have time to read every thesis in our collection, we do see many thesis titles!
Of particular interest this round is Dr. Tracy Bear’s dissertation - Dr. Bear received the Governor General’s Gold Medal, which is an award that recognizes the doctoral graduate who achieves the highest academic standing/cumulative scholarly achievement at the University of Alberta. You can read Dr. Bear’s dissertation, Power in My Blood: Corporeal Sovereignty through the Praxis of an Indigenous Eroticanalysis, available in ERA at this link.
Monday, January 25, 2016
UAlberta Libraries Becomes Full Hydra Partner
As one of many institutional partners committed to the ongoing development of better digital repository solutions for organizations across North America and internationally, University of Alberta Libraries [UAL] was recently elevated from a provisional to a full partner in the Hydra Project. Hydra is open source software developed through the collaborative efforts of a number of partner institutions, including the University of Alberta.
This decision was based on UAL’s significant contributions to the project, which include:
- successfully deploying a production instance of Hydra in the fall 2015 redesign of ERA, the University of Alberta’s well-established open access digital repository
- actively contributing to technical development
- actively participating in the Hydra community through contributions to documentation, membership on interest and working groups and community forums, participation at Hydra Connect meetings, and consultation with potential Hydra adopters
- visibly advocating for the project through presentations on UAL’s Hydra implementation at a range of open repository conferences/meetings
Check out UAL’s code for HydraNorth and other projects on Github!
Monday, March 23, 2015
Tri-Council Open Access Policy on Publications Announced
The Government of Canada recently announced a new Tri-Agency Open Access Policy on Publications. The objective of this policy is to improve access to the results of research funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), and to increase the dissemination and exchange of research results.
This policy applies to peer-reviewed journal publications that are the product of Tri-Council agency-supported research, and requires that these publications be made freely accessible to the public via the Internet within 12 months of publication. For CIHR funded research only, the policy also applies to publication related research-data.
Tri-Council grant recipients may comply with this new policy by either publishing in journals that make articles openly accessible or by archiving their publication in open access repositories. The University of Alberta Libraries offers services that support both options. Check out the below links for more information.
- Read UofA's Colloquy post on the policy
- Review the Tri-Agency Open Access Policy and related FAQs
- Visit ERA: Education & Research Archives, University of Alberta's institutional repository
- Find out more about University of Alberta Libraries Journal Hosting service
- Contact your liaison librarian for information on upcoming faculty sessions about open access publishing options
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