Jerome, Erin

Job Title

Library Publishing and Institutional Repository Librarian

Last Name

Jerome

First Name

Erin

Discipline

Musicology
Scholarly Communication

Expertise

ETDs, institutional repositories, open access, Joseph Haydn

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Open Access
Making Migration Less Mysterious: Developing a Migration Plan for ScholarWorks@UMassAmherst
(2023-01-01) Jerome, Erin
In January 2023, after years of environmental scans, interviews with stakeholders and other IR managers, and platform investigations and pilots, the UMass Amherst Libraries made the decision to migrate its IR from bepress' Digital Commons to a combination of Janeway and Atmire-hosted DSpace 7.x. We all love a good migration presentation, but for most of us, migration remains a mysterious process that's difficult to envision. In this talk, I will walk through my process of creating a migration plan for our rather large and unwieldy IR -- from interviews with IR managers who have been through migration, the beginning stages of data cleanup and standardization, and the fun -- Excel column limits! Items uploaded multiple times!--discoveries made along the way. I will also discuss how the cleanup and discoveries are shaping our IR policies moving forward.
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Open Access and Copyright for Theses and Dissertations
(2016-10-26) Jerome, Erin
What is the benefit for choosing open access for your dissertation or thesis? How can your copyright choices help or hurt your scholarship? In this workshop, an overview of open access, copyright, and fair use as it relates to your thesis or dissertation will be presented. We will also allow for plenty of time to discuss your thoughts and questions about these issues.
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So You Want to Create a Data Repository and your Institution Already (Kind of?) Has One...
(2020-01-01) Jerome, Erin
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Full Schedule for 2017 Open Access Week events at the University of Massachusetts Amherst
(2017-10-23) Jerome, Erin
The UMass Amherst Libraries will host a series of events as part of Open Access Week 2017 pertaining to copyright and fair use, open access, electronic theses and dissertations, open technologies, and open data.
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So You Want to Share Your Data? Collaborative Policy Writing for the UMass Amherst Data Repository
(2020-01-01) Jerome, Erin
Policy plays an important role in articulating scope, content, and expectations. This presentation will describe the launching of UMass Amherst’s Data Repository as well as the collaborative approach that the UMass Amherst Libraries’ Data Working Group took in the development of the repository’s policy. Prior to 2017, datasets were primarily added to our IR, ScholarWorks@UMassAmherst, when publishers required researchers to make their supporting data openly available with a DOI by the time an article was submitted for publication. Concurrent with the hiring of a Data Services Librarian and an increasing demand to house and share open datasets from campus researchers, the UMass Amherst Libraries developed and launched an institutional data repository within ScholarWorks. It became immediately clear that we needed to develop a policy for the data repository that would better explain the types of data that we could collect and share openly after we were approached by a researcher who wanted to share data that was not anonymized and who did not understand why sharing this data might be problematic. Creating the policy also enabled the Data Working Group to support our librarians and the Libraries as stewards of our campus’ open data. Ultimately, establishing policy became an important stepping stone for developing internal workflows, and our communication and expectation management to our campus researchers.
Open Access
Open Access and Copyright for Theses and Dissertations
(2017-10-26) Jerome, Erin
What is the benefit for choosing open access for your dissertation or thesis? How can your copyright choices help or hurt your scholarship? In this workshop, librarian Erin Jerome will present an overview of open access, copyright, and fair use as it relates to your research. We will also allow for plenty of time to discuss your thoughts and questions about these issues.
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A Visit from the Spoon Squad
(2018-01-01) Jerome, Erin
Literary inspiration: A Visit from the Goon Squad
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Managing your data & research objects for beginners
(2021-01-01) Atwood, Thea P; Jerome, Erin
Do you have data? Or research objects you collect? Maybe you have lots of files on your computer related to your research? Do you sometimes forget which file is your most current version, or where you stored something? Have you ever lost a thumb drive, dropped your laptop, or spilled water on your computer? Good data management practices can help protect you from catastrophic data events, reduce your cognitive load, and save you time! Come learn a few tips and tricks for managing your data that you can implement right now. These beginner tips will be helpful to anyone doing research in any discipline, at any stage of their research career. This workshop is being offered by members of the UMass Amherst Libraries Data Working Group.
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If You Build It, Will It Collapse? Roadblocks to Building a Regional Repository Community
(2018-05-04) Jerome, Erin; Palmer, Lisa A.; Reznik-Zellen, Rebecca
Background: In July 2017 the authors organized a regional user group meeting for librarians who use or were considering Digital Commons, the popular hosted institutional repository platform from bepress. It had been many years since this group had been brought together. Bepress sponsored the meeting and sent a product consultant to participate. The organizers hoped to make this an annual event, and also broaden the scope to all repository platforms. By all accounts, the well-attended New England Digital Commons User Group Meeting was a success and evaluations were positive. Just five days later, however, bepress announced that the company had been purchased by Elsevier [1], shocking Digital Commons customers and the worldwide community of scholarly communication librarians and open access advocates. In the wake of this game-changing development, the positive energy generated from the meeting abruptly evaporated, to be replaced by feelings of outrage, disappointment, loss of control, and paralysis. Objective: The objective of this poster is to foster meaningful dialogue about community building in an academic landscape where the ground is shifting rapidly. Questions for attendees: Were you affected by the by the Elsevier acquisition of bepress? How can librarians in the New England region support each other in their respective efforts to manage institutional repositories? What is a good next step for the user group organizers to move forward and build this community? How can community members from larger institutions support those in smaller institutions? Can anything be learned from community building in other areas of librarianship? How could/should this community help support the implementation/use of more open source repository platforms? How do/should/could nation-wide initiatives such as 2.5% Commitment influence regional/institutional efforts in the institutional repository space? [1] https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2017/08/02/elsevier-acquires-bepress/
Open Access
Digital Repositories as a Way to Manage Data and Reputation Beyond Publications
(2019-01-01) Atwood, Thea P; Jerome, Erin; Valen, Dan
Institutional Repositories (IRs) can be (and are) implemented at Universities and Colleges to capture organization output and non-traditional research objects and artifacts. Repositories can help improve workflow and reporting mechanisms: e.g., it’s a known place to deposit data or papers, and repository managers (typically in the Library) get usage statistics, and we can tell some interesting stories about use. IRs can: help improve the attention and impact of university-affiliated published research showcase work (e.g, top 10 downloads; spotlight paper; recent additions; and more) help with management of work created on a campus – i.e., ensure research generated on campus is managed by the campus ensure information is preserved and made available for long term access. Putting data or images in a repository can also help authors keep control of their work – many repositories offer extremely permissive licenses that allow authors to maintain ownership of their work. e.g., you are not handing over copyright of these materials to publishers (and thus – very often -- giving them exclusive control of that content).