ScholarWorks@UMassAmherst

Recent Submissions

  • PublicationOpen Access
    University of Massachusetts Amherst Open Access Policy Faculty Survey
    (University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries, 2024-10) Turner, Christine; Fitzgerald, Sarah Rose
    Survey instrument distributed to 1,800 UMass Amherst faculty in October 2024 about the UMass Amherst open access policy (6 questions), attitudes about open access publishing (3 questions), and knowledge of library services to support open access publishing (4 questions). The survey also included 4 demographic questions.
  • PublicationOpen Access
    University of Massachusetts Amherst Open Access Policy Focus Group Protocol
    (University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries, 2025-11-14) Turner, Christine; Fitzgerald, Sarah Rose
    This is the script used for 4 focus groups about the UMass Amherst open access policy conducted in January and February 2025 with 17 total participants.
  • PublicationOpen Access
    University of Massachusetts Amherst Institutional Output Collection and Analysis Protocol, 2024-2025
    (2025-11-14) Turner, Christine; Fitzgerald, Sarah Rose; Chaput, Jennifer; Jerome, Erin
    This protocol describes the process, tools and considerations for collecting the UMass Amherst scholarly output (articles, book chapters and conference proceedings) between 2017-2024 and comparing them with institutional repository (ScholarWorks) holdings.
  • PublicationOpen Access
    An Open Access Policy Review and Considerations on Future Relevance
    (University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries, 2025-11-18) Turner, Christine; Waite, Patrick; Jerome, Erin
    Presentation at the 2025 Charleston Conference (virtual) about the UMass Amherst Open Access Policy review with discussion of the relevance of open access policies more generally in the current scholarly publishing landscape.
  • PublicationOpen Access
    A Director's Process: An Exploration from the Outside In
    (2007-05) Lombardi, Maryann
    This odyssey explored a physical approach to acting and then integrated that approach into a method for staging plays. The five projects described in this thesis include three classroom projects free from design elements and two fully produced productions.