Terminology

Tools & Platforms

• Collaboration Tools
  • Zoom, a tool for meeting with Lena
  • Microsoft Teams, a collaboration environment which can be used for hosting meetings, but is mainly for chat / collaborative conversation & where all the excel files live
    
• Website Infrastructure
  • Bepress – the websites which Professor profiles are on, the ones called Selected Works live on software called bepress. Practicum students have their own bepress profiles, to get a feel for the backend technology which hosts the UMSL Professor Selected Works pages.
  • WordPress – where your activity log and the documentation for the workflow are (this is the website you’re reading now, it is a blog that exists on software, that software is WordPress).
  • Too many platforms end in ‘press’

Faculty Profiles

• The Discovery System
  • The Discovery System is a site where you can find profiles and papers done by scholars in four of the universities/colleges in the UM System: University of Missouri-St. Louis, University of Missouri, University of Missouri-Kansas City, and Missouri S&T
  • https://scholars.umsystem.edu/
• Selected Works
  • The Selected Works in a gallery of scholars who have BePress profiles, which has the “SW Gallery” button selected
  • https://irl.umsl.edu/sw_gallery.html

Open Access Permissions Tool

• “The Extension” or “The New Checker” or “The Checker”
  • This is our OA checker & discovery tool harvester built by our Practicum Programmer, Darrel Jiang. Find out how to download and install it at:
    • http://umsldigitalhumanities.org/openaccess/tools/downloading-the-acalytics-chrome-extension/
  • This tool is built on https://openaccessbutton.org/ technology. Another similar tool is http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/. We have automated as to avoid manually checking either of these sources.

Types of Open Access Papers

• Publisher PDF
  • The Publisher’s PDF is the version of the article after it had been reviewed, formatted, and published for and in the journal
• Post-Print
  • A Post-Print is a draft of a journal article after it has been peer reviewed and accepted for publication, but before it has been formatted by and for the journal
• Pre-Print
  • A Pre-Print is a version of a journal article that precedes peer review and publication in a peer-reviewed scholarly journal