Billings, Marilyn

Job Title

Head, Office of Scholarly Communication & Advisor to the Dean, University Libraries

Last Name

Billings

First Name

Marilyn

Discipline

Library and Information Science

Introduction

Marilyn Billings is the head of the Office of Scholarly Communication at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, a position she has held since 2006. She provides leadership and education in alternative scholarly communication strategies and open scholarship topics, author rights, open access, open education, and library publishing initiatives. Current projects include oversight of the UMass Amherst’s digital repository ScholarWorks, the coordination of the UMass Amherst Open Education Initiative (OEI), co-chair of the MA Open Education Advisory Council with the MA Department of Higher Education, member of the Library Publishing Coalition, and member and partner presenter of the Open Textbook Network.

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Momentum Building: Progress Towards a National OER Movement
(2016) Allen, Nicole; Bell, Steven J; Billings, Marilyn S
In this update to our original article on Open Educational Resources published in November 2014, we share those most recent developments, which to our way of thinking, generate high enthusiasm for even greater progress towards higher education's transition to a culture of openness.
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2011 Open Access Week Poster
(2011-10-24) Billings, Marilyn S
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2015 Open Access Week full schedule
(2015-10-19) Billings, Marilyn S
Full schedule for 2015 Open Access Week events at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
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Session II: Copyright and Fair Use Concerns in Film and Media Educational Use
(2011-10-20) Billings, Marilyn S; Enghagen, Linda K; Paige, Thomas L; Shaw, Kerry
A panel of UMass Amherst faculty and staff will provide brief presentations, sharing their perspective and experience with the application of copyright and fair use, as specifically related to the use of video in academic courses. These presentations will represent viewpoints and expertise from the Office of Information Technologies & Academic Computing, University Libraries & Scholarly Communications, as well as personal faculty perspective, and will be followed by open discussion with session participants.
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ScholarWorks, the UMass Amherst Digital Repository: Showcasing new ways of sharing our scholarly work
(2008) Billings, Marilyn S
Presentation about ScholarWorks digital repository, scholarly communication, ETDs and graduate student work. Given at the Graduate School's program for the Graduate Program Directors, Sept 23, 2008.
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Flipping an Academic Library Collection: A Path to a Global Open Scholarly Commons
(2019) Turner, Christine N.; Billings, Marilyn S
In late 2017, the University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries participated in the David Lewis and Michael Roy “2.5% Commitment and Open Data Collection Tool Project.” This exercise provided a benchmark of collection and infrastructure investments to date, and it brought into focus the opportunity to articulate the Libraries’ intentions for their collections going forward. The UMass Amherst Libraries provide a case study of an academic library collection that is pivoting from materials produced by proprietary publishers to a mix of investments in unique and special collections; open access publishing, content and infrastructure; and materials published through traditional channels.
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Program Schedule: The University's Role in the Dissemination of Research & Scholarship, a call to action
(2009-09-01) Billings, Marilyn S; Michel, Marla
Scholarworks at UMass Amherst has made great progress in improving the campus's dissemination of research and scholarship, But, is it enough? The 4th Annual Digital Quadrangle series will be devoted to discussing the university's role in this process. Featured will be Harvard's Stuart Shieber and MIT's Ann Wolpert, two authors of a recently released report by the AAU, ARL, CNI, and APLU entitled, "The University's Role in the Dissemination of Research and Scholarship - A Call to Action." Provost James Staros and members of the faculty will respond with what the campus is doing and how it is working. The program will close with the guest speakers responding to our actions. Please join us for this important conversation.
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Library Space Redesign (Virtual)
(2009) Billings, Marilyn S
This session will present a series of "think pieces" for both librarians and other campus constituencies to explore as we create new ways of working together to meet the needs of students, faculty and researchers of the 21st century. Topics will include new scholarly communication techniques, digital repositories, new partnerships and ways of marketing our scholarly outreach activities, and examine the implications for our current and future workforce.
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Faculty Survey: Institutional Repositories
(2006) Billings, Marilyn S
This survey was created in February 2006 and distributed to all faculty at UMass Amherst in March. The goals were to get a sense of faculty interest in and understanding of the meaning of an institutional repository, to specifically determine types of content that faculty would contribute and to obtain names of faculty interested in participating in a pilot project. Permission was received from MIT and the University of Maine to use their surveys as templates.
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Celebrating Open Access Journals and Conferences
(2013-10-25) Billings, Marilyn S
Through services offered by the University Libraries, faculty and researchers can create new open access journals and host scholarly conference proceedings. This session will showcase this service and celebrate the launch of 2 new open journals and a long-standing conference.