Faculty promotions 2017
Congratulations to Wake Forest faculty who have received promotions, effective July 1.
Categories: University Announcement
October 2016 faculty and staff milestones
See a list of faculty and staff milestones for October 2016: Read more
Categories: Staff News, University Announcement
Open access: What is it? Why do we need it?
By Sara Hendricks, Wake Forest News Office intern
Access to scholarship has traditionally been reserved for those who subscribe to academic journals or those who attend or work at an institution with subscriptions. A personal subscription can cost upwards of $1,000 per year. Library subscriptions run much higher, with ZSR’s most expensive journals costing tens of thousands of dollars.
But what if academic research could become more accessible, more immediate and less impenetrable? This is the goal of the open access movement, which aims to provide “free, immediate, online availability of research articles, coupled with the rights to use these articles fully in the digital environment,” according to the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition.
In 2010, the Z. Smith Reynolds Library Librarians’ Assembly adopted an open access policy. However, it applies only to library faculty scholarship, not all faculty scholarship, so there’s room to grow.
Misperceptions that publishing in an open access journal is less prestigious than publishing in a traditional journal abound, but Scholarly Communication Librarian Molly Keener says some of the most respected journals are published open access.
Categories: Guest Post, University Announcement
Keener will chat on HuffPost Live on Friday
Molly Keener, the scholarly communication librarian at the Z. Smith Reynolds Library, will take part in a discussion on HuffPost Live on Friday at 3:40 p.m. Keener will discuss her experiences with Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) and chat about their future. Keener recently completed a MOOC offered by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and she shared her thoughts on a ZSR blog post.
The HuffPost Live discussion was triggered by an announcement from a MOOC facilitator, Coursera, which announced a deal with leading academic publishers to provide free access to etextbooks for students in MOOCs.
Categories: Faculty News
ZSR faculty publish article
Congratulations to Z. Smith Reynolds Library faculty on their recent publication:
Keener, Molly, Vicki Johnson, and Bobbie L. Collins. “In-House Collaborative Mentoring: Programs That Capitalize on Campus Community Strengths.” College & Research Libraries News 73.3 (2012): 134-46.
Categories: Faculty News
