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Selected Works of Rebel Cummings-Sauls

Florida Postsecondary Academic Library Network, Director of Digital Services and Open Educational Resources

Leads the Digital Services and OER workgroup; overseeing all aspects of Digital Services and OER. This position works collaboratively with Distance Learning and Student Services (DLSS) at FLVC to develop services and programs that promote the use of open-access textbooks and open education resources (OER) for Florida’s public postsecondary education institutions.

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About Rebel Cummings-Sauls

Leads the Digital Services and OER workgroup; overseeing all aspects of Digital Services and OER. This position works collaboratively with Distance Learning and Student Services (DLSS) at FLVC to develop services and programs that promote the use of open-access textbooks and open education resources (OER) for Florida’s public postsecondary education institutions.

April 2018 - Present	Director, Digital Services and Open Education Resources (OER), Florida State University ‐ Florida Virtual Campus (FLVC)
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January 2015 - March 2018	Director, Kansas State University ‐ Center for the Advancement of Digital Scholarship
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August 2011 - January 2015	Library Operations Coordinator, University of South Florida
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Other English Language and Literature, Photography, Acting, and Library and Information Science

Rsauls@flvc.org

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Contribution to Book

Open Partnerships: Identifying and Recruiting Allies for Open Educational Resources ...

OER: A Field Guide for Academic Librarians (2018)

Rebel Cummings-Sauls, Matt Ruen, Sarah Beaubien and Jeremy Smith

Cummings-Sauls, Ruen, Beaubien, and Smith extend conversations about OER-enabled partnerships by exhaustively describing the roles and responsibilities harbored by potential ...

Rebel Cummings-Sauls

In this discussion the session leader will facilitate the sharing of flip flop stories. The session leader invites attendees to ...

To include or not to include: Cataloging open and free ...

Rebel Cummings-Sauls

With the open access and open education resource movements there is an increasing amount of open and/or free content. Our ...

Collaborating Across Campus and the Community to Create Open Textbooks

Rebel Cummings-Sauls

The Open/Alternative Textbook Initiative at K-State began and has been sustained through numerous collaborations. Sparking from collaboration between various faculty, ...

How can you become a part of your client’s ...

Rebel Cummings-Sauls

Having clients on your side, or rather you being on theirs, means there are no borders. In this discussion we ...

An Ethical Framework for Library Publishing

LPC Publications (2018)

Jason Boczar, Nina Collins, Rebel Cummings-Sauls, Terri Fishel, et al.

Inspired by discussions at the 2017 Library Publishing Forum, An Ethical Framework for Library Publishing 1.0 was created by the ...

Finding and Using OER

OER Production Workflows for Open Textbooks

Rebel Cummings-Sauls, Allison P Brown, Billy Meinke and Anthony Palmiotto

Guest Speakers Allison Brown, SUNY Geneseo; Rebel Cummings-Sauls, Kansas State University; Billy Meinke, University of Hawaii; and Anthony Palmiotto, OpenStax ...

Invited Speaker- Power Control of Copyright: Keeping and Regaining It

University of Texas Arlington (UTA) Libraries Copyright Conference 2016 (2016)

Rebel Cummings-Sauls

Presented on power struggles that have happened, are happening, and will happen with copyright. Reviewed basic rights that have shown ...

Webinar: Review of Business Models & Services for Open Access ...

Rebel Cummings-Sauls, Beth Bernhardt, Anne Houston, Ellen C. Ramsey, et al.

Each reviewer will discuss the content offered, including breadth of coverage, quality and reputation of publishers or authors; the platform ...

Peer-Reviewed Article (2)

Cultivating Textbook Alternatives From the Ground Up: One Public University ...

The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning (2017)

Jonathan Lashley, Rebel Cummings-Sauls, Andrew B Bennett and Brian L Lindshield

This note from the field reviews the sustainability of an institution-wide program for adopting and adapting open and alternative educational ...

Transcending Institutions and Borders: 21st Century Digital Scholarship at K-State

Kansas Library Association College and University Libraries Section Proceedings

Rebel Cummings-Sauls, Rachel Miles, Ryan Otto and Charlene N. Simser

Digital scholarship of the 21st century transcends institutions and borders with its freedom from print and physical locations. This case ...

Poster (3)

Sustaining Institutional Repositories: Breaking the Mold to Add Value

Library Faculty and Staff Publications and Presentations (2018)

Karen Bjork, Ryan Otto and Rebel Cummings-Sauls

Librarians at Kansas State University and Portland State University recognized a need to document and showcase a more complete view ...

Bringing multiple scholarly services under one umbrella, creating a digital ...

Rebel Cummings-Sauls and Ryan Otto

Staying Ahead of the Digital Information Curve @ the University of ...

FLA: Vital and Vibrant (2012)

Rebel Cummings-Sauls and John Abresch

Poster displays two projects and how they are integrated with GIS and Scholar Commons. Projects reviewed: Tampa Bay Area Study ...

Video: USF Scholar Commons

Digital Commons Collaboratory (2013)

Rebel Cummings-Sauls

This video introduces Scholar Commons and tours some of the collections and publications hosted in the repository.

Promotional Video 2013

Scholar Commons Publications (2013)

Rebel Cummings-Sauls and Peter Lee Johnson

Promotional video (~3mins) for the University of South Florida's institutional repository, Scholar Commons. Overview of services provided through the bepress ...

OER Allies — Assemble! Identifying & Recruiting Stakeholders for OER Initiatives

Open Ed 2017 (2017)

Rebel Cummings-Sauls, Jeremy L Smith and Matt Ruen

Open Educational Resources (OER) have the potential to benefit stakeholders and communities across higher education, from libraries and faculty support ...

How Networking on Campus Can Increase Copyright Education

Kraemer Copyright Conference (2017)

Rebel Cummings-Sauls and Rachel Miles

As online academic interactions continue to become more complex in the digital age, interaction with online copyrighted content inevitably increases. ...

Addressing Student and Instructor Needs through Library Support for Open ...

ansas Library Association College and University Libraries Section (CULS) Spring Conference (2017)

Josh Bolick and Rebel Cummings-Sauls

"The cost of textbooks and other learning materials have increased rapidly, causing students across institutional size, profile, and socio-economic status ...

Pushing the Institutional Repository to a New Level: Potential Benefits ...

Kansas Library Association, College and University Libraries Section (CULS) Spring Conference (2017)

Rebel Cummings-Sauls and Ryan Otto

Librarians at Kansas State University Libraries recognized a need to document and showcase a more complete view of the digital ...

Transcending institutions and borders: 21st century digital scholarship at K-State

Kansas Library Association’s (KLA) with Nebraska Library Association (NLA) College and University Libraries Section (CULS) Annual Spring Conference (2016)

Rebel Cummings-Sauls, Rachel Miles, Charlene N. Simser and Ryan Otto

Digital scholarship of the 21st century transcends institutions and borders with its freedom from print and physical locations. In this ...

Saving students money at K-State (and beyond)

Emporia E-Textbook Summit. Emporia University (2015)

Rebel Cummings-Sauls

Saving student’s money at K-State, during this session we will review and explore several ways K-State faculty, staff, and students are ...

Creating Successful Scholarly Communication with an Institutional Repository: Creating Scholar ...

Rebel Cummings-Sauls and Ann Connolly

Scholar Commons, a service of the University of South Florida Tampa Library, has become a virtual showcase and publishing venue ...

ASERL Webinar: Library Publishing #2 -- Focus on Undergraduate Research Journals

Rebel Cummings-Sauls

The second in the series of webinars on library-based publishing, this session focused on the publication of undergraduate research journals. ...