Rice Digital Scholarship Archive Hosts Open Access Monographs

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Three faculty-authored open access monographs are now available on the Rice Digital Scholarship Archive. Fondren Library funded digital open access versions of these new Duke University Press books to be released simultaneously with their print versions. Open access versions are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits users to use, share, and build upon the work as long as attribution is provided. Fondren is following practices developed through the Towards an Open Monograph Ecosystem (TOME) initiative of the Association of Research Libraries to support subventions for Rice faculty open access books on an ongoing basis. Additional information about library support for open access can be found at https://libguides.rice.edu/AuthorFees.

Ballestero, Andrea. A Future History of Water, https://doi.org/10.25611/egc8-n043

Boyer, Dominic. Energopolitics, https://doi.org/10.25611/rbb7-zw33

Howe, Cymene. Ecologics, https://doi.org/10.25611/j5kf-mr18

Rice Digital Scholarship Archive Spotlight: Faculty Publications

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The Faculty Publications collection in the Rice Digital Scholarship Archive (https://scholarship.rice.edu/handle/1911/75173) includes faculty journal articles deposited per Rice’s Open Access Policy. Passed by the Rice Faculty Senate in 2012, Rice’s Open Access Policy directs faculty to make copies of their journal articles publicly available in the archive. To-date, over 3,500 articles have been made available online. To learn more about Rice’s Open Access Policy, see http://openaccess.rice.edu/rice-open-access-policy/ or email openaccess@rice.edu.

Data @ Rice: Fall 2019 Workshops

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

Fall 2019 classes include:

  • Using Excel to Manage and Analyze Data
  • Introduction to Time Series Analysis:
  • Introduction to SPSS
  • Introduction to Access
  • Introduction to SQL
  • Introduction to Data Management
  • The Absolute Basics of Jupyter Notebooks
  • Introduction to GitHub
  • Introduction to R
  • Introduction to Shell Scripting in Bash
  • Introduction to TensorFlow
  • R Visualization and Data Manipulation
  • Python for Beginners
  • Python-Pandas
  • Python Data Visualization with Matplotlib
  • Web Scraping with Python
  • Non-Programmer’s Introduction to Rice’s Computing Infrastructure: Virtual Machines, Storage, and Supercomputing
  • Excel Charts Tips for Visualizing Data
  • R visualization with ggplot2

Additional information and registration can be found at https://library.rice.edu/data

Copyright Conversations Brown Bag Series

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Copyright Conversations is a new brown bag series hosted by Fondren Digital Scholarship Services. The purpose of this program is to provide the Rice community information about relevant copyright and licensing issues. Fall 2019 sessions, led by Rice Assistant General Counsel Jim Cox, include:

Thursday, October 24, 12:00-1:00, Fondren Collaboration Space (Fondren B43 A): Discussion of the “big 4” of intellectual property: patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets.

Thursday, November 7, 12:00-1:00, Fondren Collaboration Space (Fondren B43 A): A deeper dive into copyright, with time allowed for participant questions.

Participants are invited to bring their lunch. Beverages and cookies will be provided. Contact cds@rice.edu with questions or to suggest topics for future sessions.

 

Summer 2019 DSS Newsletter

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In 2017, Fondren Fellow Jennifer Lee developed a marketing plan for Digital Scholarship Service (DSS) to promote the department’s services and resources to the Rice community.

In order to understand how the Rice community wants to learn about Fondren’s resources and how frequently the Rice community utilizes Fondren resources, Jennifer developed and distributed a survey to the Rice community. Among Jennifer’s recommendations is that Fondren library communicate with the Rice community through email notifications and newsletters to better reach a larger audience. Jennifer’s full report can be found at https://hdl.handle.net/1911/102505.

In response to Jennifer’s report, DSS has developed a plan to promote its services through several online methods, including this blog and a newsletter. The first issue of the electronic newsletter was recently distributed to campus via email. It can also be found here: https://mailchi.mp/a463d366a0b9/fondren-digital-scholarship-services-newsletter. DSS plans on producing newsletters several times a year.

 

 

 

Staff News

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Ying Jin, Application Programmer, was part of a multidisciplinary team that transformed the Texas Medical Center (TMC) Library’s collection of rare anatomy atlases into a physical-digital, human-sized atlas-of-atlases. Learn more about the Electronic Vesalius project here.

In Summer 2018, Fondren welcomed Miaomiao Rimmer as data and government information librarian. She comes to Rice from the University of Oklahoma, where she worked in The Consortium for Student Retention Data Exchange. Rimmer has taught several Data and Donuts workshops, including Python for Beginners and Introduction to IBM SPSS Statistics. She hopes to provide additional hands-on training on organizing, documenting, analyzing and visualizing data. Read more about Rimmer in the Fall 2018 issue of News from Fondren.

Shannon Kipphut-Smith, Scholarly Communications Liaison, led a study of Coalition of Open Access Policy Insitutions (COAPI) member approaches to evaluating institutional open access (OA) policies.  In a 2018 article in the Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication, the group recommends that institutions with OA  policies be transparent about assessment activities and work toward the development of best practices.

Fight link rot with perma.cc!

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Websites change, go away, and get taken down. When they do, linked citations can lead to broken, blank, unintentional, or even malicious pages. This decay is called “link rot.” Link rot affects everyone who cites links. Over 50% of cited links in Supreme Court opinions no longer point to the intended page. Roughly 70% of cited links in academic legal journals and 20% of all science, technology and medicine articles suffer from link rot.

Perma.cc helps scholars, journals and courts prevent link rot by creating permanent, reliable, unalterable links to the online sources cited in their work.

Fondren Library is part of a network of perma.cc libraries and other trusted organizations to act as registrar for the Rice community. In this role, the library manages users and provides additional assistance on issues related to link rot.

Want to give perma.cc a try? It’s simple:

  1. Email the library at cds@rice.edu to request an account. Use “perma” for subject line. [service available for current Rice faculty, staff, and students]
  2. Once registered, find the page you want to preserve. Copy its URL and visit https://perma.cc/.
  3. Add your URL to perma.cc. Select “Create Perma Link.”
  4. Once perma.cc has created the record, you can delete or annotate it.
  5. Use the perma link in your citations–it will never change or break.

Data and Donuts: Summer Workshops

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This free workshop series sponsored by Fondren Library and the Center for Research Computing provides hands-on training in the basics of organizing, documenting, analyzing, and visualizing your data. Come learn and enjoy free donuts! [Registration is limited to current Rice students, faculty, and staff or Friends of Fondren at the patron level and above]

Summer 2019 Courses include:

  • Python for Beginners
  • Python-Pandas
  • Introduction to Effective Data Visualization
  • Using Excel to Manage and Analyze Data
  • Introduction to Data Management
  • Introduction to GitHub
  • Colors in Data Visualization
  • Excel Charts Tips for Visualizing Data
  • Using Rice’s Private VM Cloud
  • Introduction to R
  • R Visualization and Data Manipulation
  • Python Data Visualization with Matplotlib
  • The Absolute Basics of Jupyter Notebooks
  • Introduction to Time Series Analysis

To learn more about courses and register, please visit http://library.rice.edu/news/data-and-donuts-workshop-series

Data and Donuts Workshop Series

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This free workshop series sponsored by Fondren Library and the Center for Research Computing provides hands-on training in the basics of organizing, documenting, analyzing, and visualizing your data. Come learn and enjoy free donuts! [Registration is limited to current Rice students, faculty, and staff or Friends of Fondren at the patron level and above]

Spring Courses include:

  • Using Excel to Manage and Analyze Data
  • Introduction to Microsoft Access
  • Introduction to Data Management
  • The Absolute Basics of Jupyter Notebooks
  • Introduction to R
  • R Visualization and Data Manipulation
  • Python for Beginners
  • Pandas and Data Visualization Basics in Python
  • Virtual Machines: Theory and Use Cases
  • Introduction to IBM SPSS Statistics

To learn more about courses and register, please visit http://library.rice.edu/news/data-and-donuts-workshop-series