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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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.
Copyright Issues for Faculty
(2010-10-22) Sawyer, JC; Billings, Marilyn
In this overview of copyright issues for instructors, we will discuss how you can protect the rights to your own works, share what you want to share, find copyright-free works, and properly use the copyrighted works of others. Special attention will be given to getting permission to use copyrighted works and to applying the "Fair Use" tests when getting permission is not an option.
2011 Open Access Week Poster
(2011-10-24) Billings, Marilyn S
Program Schedule: Research & Scholarship in the Digital Age: An Exploration
(2006-04-06) Billings, Marilyn S; Michel, Marla
In this inaugural event for the UMass Amherst Digital Quadrangle Series – an annual program brought to you by the UMass Amherst Libraries, Office of Research, Center for Teaching, and Graduate School – we will explore the changing nature of the representation of knowledge and how it will impact research and scholarship. NSF Program Director, Chris Greer, will speak about multi-disciplinary digital collections and toolkits for future applications. Selected faculty members will share their experiences of the impact the digital age has had on their research from online journals to implications of open source to new discoveries. The colloquium sponsors will discuss their services in the context of research and digital collections.
OPEN ACCESS WEEK OCTOBER 24-28 “OPENING DOORS, OPENING MINDS”
(2011-10-24) Billings, Marilyn S
Open Access Week, a global event in its fifth year, will be held from October 24 to October 28 this year. As part of 2011 Open Access Week, the UMass Amherst Libraries is hosting a series of events relevant to copyright and fair use, open educational resources, open data, and the launch of Credo, an online repository containing the digital collections of Special Collections and University Archives. All events are free and open to the public. For additional information, please check each day's activities, or contact Marilyn Billings at mbillings @ library.umass.edu.
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.
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.
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.
Full schedule for 2016 Open Access Week events at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
(2016-10-25) Billings, Marilyn S
The UMass Amherst Libraries, the UMass Graduate School, and the Office of Research hosts a series of Open Access Week 2016 events relevant to open access, copyright and fair use, data sharing, and electronic theses and dissertations. All events are free and open to the public.
Engaging the Web for Scholarship, Pedagogy, and Publication
(2008-03-10) Billings, Marilyn S
As a Research Extensive institution, it is imperative for the academic community to maximize its research output and scholarly activity. One way to accomplish this is through the web, i.e., the Internet and its associated media which can assist in the dissemination and access of these products; Scholarworks@UMassAmherst is one way the campus is supporting this goal. This third installment of the Digital Quadrangle Series at UMass Amherst will further involve our community in the dialog regarding migration to a web-based research showcase and provide tools for achieving this goal. We are pleased to have Dr. Siva Vaidhyanathan, associate professor of Media Studies and Law at the University of Virginia, share his perspectives about this emerging “trans-field,” which is concerned broadly with the politics of information in contemporary, connected societies in a talk titled, “The Googlization of Everything.” He is one of academe’s best known scholars of intellectual property (IP) and its role in contemporary culture.