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BIO - Julia E. Rodriguez

Services Provided

  • Assistance for faculty with research and publishing, including tool selection and instruction.
  • Liaison to institutional partners on faculty research and scholarly communication issues.
  • Educational training programs for faculty on author rights, and alternative publishing methods.
  • Coordinator of the Affordable Course Materials Initiative (ACMI)
  • Coordinate the Library's OUR@Oakland repository and open access initiatives.
  • Liaison to the Writing department, including information literacy instruction and collection development.
  • Affordable course materials conversion consultations.
  • Reference services and individual research consultations.
  • Workshops provided by request (view subject list)

Campus Presentations & Workshops (previous 5 years)

  • April 15, 2025. Scholarly Publishing in crisis: How academic values fuel the exploitation of OA and AI and corrupt research integrity.
  • February 16, 2024 - ACMI Five-Year update- Oakland University Student Congress invited presentation.
  • October 13, 2023. Low and No-cost Course Markings. Oakland University Student Congress invited presentation.
  • October 11, 2023. DEI Council Affordable Course Materials, OER & DEI.
  • February 9, 2023. Who has cited you? Creating your citation report. Schol Comm mini-workshop.
  • February 16, 2023. Making your publications open: Understanding open licenses. Schol Comm mini-workshop.
  • October 25, 2022. Open for Climate Justice faculty panel - OA week event.
  • March 3, 2021. ACMI Stipend Presentations. Open Education week 2021.
  • February 12, 2021. Z-degrees Zero-Textbook-Cost Degrees. School of Health Sciences Faculty meeting.
  • October 22, 2020. The Open Access Imperative - OA week pre-recorded presentation.
  • December 3 & November 18, 2019. Teaching with OER - How to use OER-enabled pedagogy in your class. Converting to a zero textbook course Learning Community.
  • October 25, 2019. Increase Your Research Visibility - Getting Your Work, Noticed, Cited and Read- OA week event.
  • October 21, 2019. Co-presenter Joanna Thielen & Stephanie Swanberg. I didn't know that was free! Locating and Using Cool Free Content - OA week presentation.
  • October 15, 2019. Finding affordable course materials, library resources, OER and open textbooks - CELT workshops.
  • October 8, 2019. Copyright and Fair Use. Graduate School Workshop.
  • October 7 & 8, 2019. OER & Creative Commons - Converting to a zero textbook course Learning Community.
  • October 2, 2019. Panel member. Open forum on textbook affordability. Student Congress.
  • September 23 & 24, 2019. Finding OER Course Materials - Converting to a zero textbook course Learning Community.
  • September 9 & 10, 2019. Introduction to OER- Converting to a zero textbook course Learning Community.
  • March 28, 2019. Co-presenter Joanna Thielen. Discover Who's Talking about Your Research with Altmetrics. Oakland University Research Office Soundings Series.

Scholarly Communication & Open Knowledge Librarian

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Julia Rodriguez
Contact:
Kresge Library 238
Rochester, MI 48309-4401
Website
Subjects: Writing & Rhetoric