This free workshop series sponsored by Fondren Library and the Center for Research Computing provides hands-on training on the basics of organizing, documenting, analyzing, and visualizing your data.

All Spring 2022 courses will be online.

Courses include:

• Introduction to R
• Build an App in a Container and Deploy It
• Introduction to Python
• Rice VM’s and Research Storage
• Introduction to SQL
• Remote Access to Research Computing Resources
• Interactive Data Visualization with Plotly
• Introduction to Open Data
• Introduction to Pandas
• Excel Pivot Tables

Course descriptions and registration can be found here.

Are you looking for openly-licensed content to use in your classroom or for publication? This series will help you find Creative Commons-licensed content. Today, we’ll look at Google.

To learn more about Creative Commons (CC) licenses, please see this Fondren Library guide.

Features

• Using Google Advanced Search, you are able to search for CC material by keyword and refine your results to show only material available under certain CC licenses.
• The filter sometimes renders incorrect results. Remember to double check the license setting of the image.

Important!

It is important to consider how you want to use any CC material before you begin your search. This is because different CC licenses let you do different things. Knowing what you want to do with the material will help you choose the license that is suitable for your use.

How to find CC licensed content in Google

Access Google Advanced Search: https://www.google.com/advanced_search.

Enter search keywords/phrases at top of search.

By default, Google search results are not filtered by license. To filter your search results for CC licensed content, navigate to the bottom of “Then narrow your results by…” section to “usage rights.” Use this to filter for CC material based on the type of use you want to make.

All CC licenses grant the user the right to use and distribute the licensed content. Therefore, if you select the ‘free to use or share’ option, your search will return content available under any of the CC licenses.

If you restrict the results to material that can be used commercially, you will exclude content under a Noncommercial license (e.g. Attribution-Noncommercial, Attribution- Noncommercial-Share Alike or Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works). Likewise, selecting the ‘free to use share or modify’ option will return results that you can legally remix (i.e. that do not have the No Derivative Works restriction). If you select ‘free to use, share or modify, even commercially’, you will only return results under the two CC licenses that allow both adaptation and commercial use (i.e. Attribution and Attribution-Share Alike).

The table below shows how the drop-down menu filters the material by license.

This post was adapted from:

“Youtube” 2016 by the Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges, licensed under CC BY 4.0

How to find Creative Commons materials using Google for Teachers and Students by the ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation through Creative Commons Australia and the Copyright Advisory Group of the Ministerial Council of Education, Employment, Training and Youth Affairs, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Australia licence.

Want to learn more about open access, open educational resources, and open data? Want to share your wins and challenges working in the open? Join Fondren Library staff each month for brief presentations (10-15 minutes) and relaxed, coffee shop-style chats about “open” topics. 

Most sessions will be held via Zoom. Click on the links below to register for each session.

Fondren Support for Open Access

In this session, Fondren staff will provide an overview of the library’s open access initiatives. Learn about the library’s support for open access journal and monograph publication charges as well as our new open access journal publishing program.

This session will be held via Zoom. Please click on the link below to register. Sessions with fewer than 4 registrants will be canceled.

• Wednesday, February 9, 10:00

Getting Started with Open Educational Resources

Are you interested in using open educational resources (OER) but aren’t sure where to start? This session will provide a brief introduction to OER and offer several tips for incorporating OER into your course.

This session will be held via Zoom. Please click on the link below to register. Sessions with fewer than 4 registrants will be canceled.

• Wednesday, March 9, 10:00

Tools for Finding Open Scholarship

It can sometimes be difficult to find open access scholarship online. In this session, we’ll highlight several tools that can help you search across websites and repositories for open content.

This session will be held via Zoom. Please click on the link below to register. Sessions with fewer than 4 registrants will be canceled.

• Wednesday, April 13, 10:00

Owls Learn OER

This self-paced Canvas course serves as an introduction to open educational resources (OER) as well as an opportunity for further exploration and discovery of OER and open education practices.

• Available anytime on Canvas [Rice login required]

Are you looking for openly-licensed content to use in your classroom or for publication? This series will help you find Creative Commons-licensed content. Today, we’ll look at YouTube.

To learn more about Creative Commons licenses, please see this Fondren Library guide.

Features

• YouTube provides millions of Creative Commons-licensed videos (among their billions of video collections). The key is filtering them to isolate the Creative Commons-licensed ones.
• The filter sometimes renders incorrect results. Remember to double check the license setting of the video. Please also check to see if the video contains any illegal content, such as an unauthorized copy of a TV show.

License Setting

Most YouTube videos are released either under CC BY or the Standard YouTube License. To learn how to check the license information of a YouTube Video, please see the directions below.

How to find a cc-licensed video in youtube

First, go to https://Youtube.com and type in your search word. Once the videos appear, you can use the filter to identify the CC licensed ones.

Click on one of the videos that appeared after applying the filter. Creative Commons licensing material can be found in the description below the video. Please note that you may need to click “Show more” and scroll through all descriptive content to find license information.

Sample Attribution

Example attribution of a CC licensed video in YouTube: An Introduction to Open Educational Resources by Abbey Elder is licensed under a CC BY 4.0 International license.

Post adapted  from “Youtube” 2016 by the Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges, licensed under CC BY 4.0.

As part of its commitment to supporting open access (OA) publishing, Fondren Library is currently accepting applications for journals (existing and new) that would like to use library-supported Open Journal Systems (OJS) software. 

Proposals will be reviewed on a rolling basis. 

• Details about application requirements and review criteria can be found here. 
• The online application form can be found here.
• Additional information about Fondren’s journal publishing services and OJS can be found here.

Questions? Contact us at openaccess@rice.edu 

Fondren Library’s Digital Scholarship Services is pleased to announce a new initiative: Library Publishing Services.

Publishing services align with the library’s efforts to deepen the impact and visibility of Rice research. The suite of services and resources has been developed to support the creation of scholarly publications created by members of the Rice community. We provide consultations on a wide range of scholarly publishing topics, facilitate the assignment of digital object identifiers (DOIs), and manage several digital publishing platforms. 

To learn more about Fondren Library Publishing Services, please visit https://library.rice.edu/services/fondren-library-publishing-services. 

An overview of services will also be provided during several Zoom sessions (click on a date to register):

• Tuesday, October 5, 12:00 pm
• Friday, October 8, 2:00 pm 
• Tuesday, October 12, 10:00 am 

If you have any questions, please contact cds@rice.edu.

Digital Scholarship Services recently published its Fall 2021 newsletter. The current issue, as well as past issues, can be found here. Subscribe to receive future newsletters in your inbox.

In July, Digital Scholarship Services facilitated a week-long online scholarly impact challenge. The challenge is designed to help members of the Rice community better manage their scholarly presence and increase the impact of their work. Participants received daily emails containing instructions for easy–but impactful–activities, like setting up ORCID and Google Scholar, making your work available in online repositories, and thinking about social media use.

All activities can now be found in this library guide. DSS welcomes suggestions for future iterations of the challenge: cds@rice.edu.