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Open Access for Online Scholarship: The Beginnings of Institutional Repositories in North Carolina
(East Carolina University, 2007)This article surveys the current state of institutional repositories in North Carolina. -
Open Access Publishing in Business Research: The Authors’ Perspective
(2011)Open access (OA) publishing is now accepted as an integral part of the emerging trends within scholarly communication. Business librarians, like their subject specialist colleagues in other disciplines, are increasingly ... -
Open Access Publishing in the Social Sciences and Humanities
(East Carolina University, 2009)Open access publishing is now an accepted pillar of the scholarly communication movement. However, the greatest traction for open access publishing thus far has been in the sciences. Penetration of open access publishing ... -
Open Access to Electronic Theses and Dissertations: What's Right for Me
(East Carolina University, 2009-10-19)Presentation made Monday, October 19, as part of Open Access Week 2009 at ECU, focusing on advantages and concerns associated with open access to electronic theses and dissertations and the history of ETDs at ECU. -
ORCID Identifiers: Planned and Potential Uses by Associations, Publishers, and Librarians
(2014-05-03)ORCID is an international, interdisciplinary, non-profit organization with a twofold goal: provide an open registry of unique identifiers for researchers and work with the scholarly community to ensure that this persistent ... -
Our Experience with User Experience: Exploring Staffing Configurations to Conduct UX in an Academic Library
(2015-10-13)A research project was undertaken by a university library system to develop a sustainable user experience strategy. A task force was convened to conduct a pilot project with members from both libraries in the system to ... -
An Overnight Success?: Usage Patterns and Demographics of Academic Library Patrons During the Overnight Period From 11 p.m.–8 a.m.
(2014-10-08)During the Fall 2013 semester East Carolina University's main library piloted 24/5 hours of operation by opening on Sunday morning and not closing until Friday night. This article details the planning and execution of the ... -
Ownership, publication and authors’ rights: Managing scholarly communications
(East Carolina University, 2009)Presentation by Kevin Smith, JD, the Scholarly Communications Librarian at Duke University, for Open Access Week 2009 -
The Past is Prologue: Telling our Stories about Textbook Affordability Programs
(2017-11-09)Conversations about textbook affordability and open educational resources are gaining traction and visibility across the nation with advocacy by student groups, state legislators, and leaders in higher education. Responding ... -
Patron preference for receipt
(2018-10-11)During spring 2018 the Circulation & Interlibrary Loan Department had internal conversations about the desirability of continuing to print and give receipts for circulation transactions. Since various staff had differing ... -
Pearl Harbor: First Hand Accounts of December 7, 1941
(2010)On the morning of December 7, 1941, the naval and aerial forces of the Japanese Empire secretly attacked the United States Navy at the naval base of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. For over two hours, two waves consisting of over ... -
Persuasive Proposals for Increasing Your Electronic Resources and Services
(East Carolina University, 2007-02-23)In these days of scarce funding and increased pressure for cutting edge services, librarians must learn which strategies work to "sell" their requests for additional funding, new services and electronic resources. Come ... -
Physicians' preferences for information sources: a meta-analytic study.
(East Carolina University, 1997-07)Identification of the resources physicians use to acquire information for clinical practice and medical research is an important area of research for health sciences librarianship and medical practice. During the past ... -
A Place in the Sun: Cleaning up Online Content with the LibGuides Summer Project
(2015-10-21)ECU Libraries have attempted to address issues with out-of-date content in LibGuides by conducting an annual group cleanup project during the lull over the summer. Librarians are provided with a brief weekly instruction ... -
Planning for Tourism: NC Eco-Tourism
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Political Divergence: A Brief History of the North Carolina Farmers’ Alliance
(2011)The Farmers’ Alliance entered a North Carolina that teemed with agrarian activity. It was not the driver of unity or administer of organization, for local Clubs had already organized before it ever appeared. The Progressive ... -
Popular Reading Collections in Public University Libraries: A Survey of Three Southeastern States
(East Carolina University, 2009)Offering a separate, popular reading collection can be a valuable public service in academic libraries. Popular reading is also known as leisure reading, recreational reading, and reading for pleasure. These phrases are ... -
Professional Development During a Pandemic: Transforming a Conference for Library Paraprofessionals
(2021-09-03)The annual, one-day Paraprofessional Conference is hosted, planned, and coordinated by East Carolina University’s Joyner Library. Since 2004, the conference has provided professional development opportunities geared to ...