Marilyn Billings is the Scholarly Communication & Special Initiatives Librarian at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She provides campus-wide leadership and education in alternative scholarly communication strategies and is frequently an invited speaker at faculty department colloquia. She gives presentations on author rights, alternative digital publishing models and the role of digital repositories in today's research and scholarship endeavors. One aspect of her responsibilities is the oversight of the digital repository ScholarWorks @ UMass Amherst. She also organizes programs on new and emerging topics for librarians, faculty, and researchers.
Author Rights
How To Keep Your Author Rights (and Influence People), Author Rights Science Faculty Colloquy (2007)
Institutional repositories
Library Space Redesign (Virtual), Council of Public Liberal Arts Colleges (COPLAC) (2009)
This session will present a series of "think pieces" for both librarians and other campus...
Research Showcase Projects within ScholarWorks @ UMass Amherst, bePress / American Library Association (2008)
This presentation highlights various types of research projects that are contained in the digital repository...
Changing Scholarly Communications and the Role of an Institutional Repository in the Digital Landscape, University of Maine (2008)
Presentation to University of Maine community (faculty, administration, librarians, and administration) about scholarly communication topics...
Selected Digital Repository Projects at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, American Library Association Mid-Winter (2008)
In this presentation, I describe the Digital Commons service at UMass Amherst and show a...
Digital Repositories: A UMass Amherst Perspective, fall 2007, NERCOMP: A Day of Scholarly Communication: Developing Your Institutional Plan (2007)
Libraries, Digital
Cyberinfrastructure and the Transformation of Libraries, NERCOMP Conference: Cyberinfrastructure and The Liberal Arts: Institutions and the Future of Discipline-based Research (2008)
Libraries are beginning to exploit the transformation that cyberinfrastructure allows: for example, for discovery and...
The Role of the Institutional Repository in Preserving the Scholarly Record of the University of Massachusetts (with Mary E. Piorun and James F. Comes), Library Publications and Presentations (2007)
The W.E.B. Du Bois Library at UMass Amherst and the Lamar Soutter Library at UMass...
Open access publishing
Filling the Void: publishing within the digital repository., bePress / American Library Association (2008)
This presentation showcases original digital publishing of journals, books, and other scholarly materials using the...
The Role of the Institutional Repository in Preserving the Scholarly Record of the University of Massachusetts (with Mary E. Piorun and James F. Comes), Library Publications and Presentations (2007)
The W.E.B. Du Bois Library at UMass Amherst and the Lamar Soutter Library at UMass...
Publishing
The Role of the Institutional Repository in Preserving the Scholarly Record of the University of Massachusetts (with Mary E. Piorun and James F. Comes), Library Publications and Presentations (2007)
The W.E.B. Du Bois Library at UMass Amherst and the Lamar Soutter Library at UMass...
Research
The Role of the Institutional Repository in Preserving the Scholarly Record of the University of Massachusetts (with Mary E. Piorun and James F. Comes), Library Publications and Presentations (2007)
The W.E.B. Du Bois Library at UMass Amherst and the Lamar Soutter Library at UMass...
Scholarly communication
Library Space Redesign (Virtual), Council of Public Liberal Arts Colleges (COPLAC) (2009)
This session will present a series of "think pieces" for both librarians and other campus...
ScholarWorks, the UMass Amherst Digital Repository: Showcasing new ways of sharing our scholarly work, UMass Amherst Graduate School Update: Initiatives and Training (2008)
Presentation about ScholarWorks digital repository, scholarly communication, ETDs and graduate student work. Given at the...
Research Showcase Projects within ScholarWorks @ UMass Amherst, bePress / American Library Association (2008)
This presentation highlights various types of research projects that are contained in the digital repository...
Cyberinfrastructure and the Transformation of Libraries, NERCOMP Conference: Cyberinfrastructure and The Liberal Arts: Institutions and the Future of Discipline-based Research (2008)
Libraries are beginning to exploit the transformation that cyberinfrastructure allows: for example, for discovery and...
Changing Scholarly Communications and the Role of an Institutional Repository in the Digital Landscape, University of Maine (2008)
Presentation to University of Maine community (faculty, administration, librarians, and administration) about scholarly communication topics...
Scholarly publishing
Library Space Redesign (Virtual), Council of Public Liberal Arts Colleges (COPLAC) (2009)
This session will present a series of "think pieces" for both librarians and other campus...
Filling the Void: publishing within the digital repository., bePress / American Library Association (2008)
This presentation showcases original digital publishing of journals, books, and other scholarly materials using the...
The Role of the Institutional Repository in Preserving the Scholarly Record of the University of Massachusetts (with Mary E. Piorun and James F. Comes), Library Publications and Presentations (2007)
The W.E.B. Du Bois Library at UMass Amherst and the Lamar Soutter Library at UMass...
ScholarWorks materials
Template letter for permissions request - department, Selected works of Marilyn Billings (2007)
Template letter for permissions request - on behalf of an author, Selected works of Marilyn Billings (2007)
ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst: Talking Points, Selected works of Marilyn Billings (2006)
Talking points document to use when initiating discussion with faculty, researchers, departments, schools and colleges...
University of Massachusetts at Amherst
The Role of the Institutional Repository in Preserving the Scholarly Record of the University of Massachusetts (with Mary E. Piorun and James F. Comes), Library Publications and Presentations (2007)
The W.E.B. Du Bois Library at UMass Amherst and the Lamar Soutter Library at UMass...
No subject area
Engaging the Web for Scholarship, Pedagogy, and Publication, Digital Quadrangle Series (2008)
As a Research Extensive institution, it is imperative for the academic community to maximize its...
Faculty Senate Research Library Council: Scholarly Communication Activities at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, University of Maine (2008)
Presentation to University of Maine Faculty Senate Library Advisory Committee members about the work done...