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Papers by Rachel Scott

Insights the UKSG journal

Faculty hold widely varying perspectives on the benefits and challenges afforded by open access (... more Faculty hold widely varying perspectives on the benefits and challenges afforded by open access (OA) publishing. In the United States, conversations on OA models and strategy have been dominated by scholars affiliated with Carnegie R1 institutions. This article reports findings from interviews conducted with faculty at a Carnegie R2 institution, highlighting disciplinary and individual perspectives on the high costs and rich rewards afforded by OA. The results reiterate the persistence of a high degree of skepticism regarding the quality of peer review and business models associated with OA publishing. By exploring scholars' perceptions of and experiences with OA publishing and their comfort using or sharing unpublished, publicly available content, the authors highlight the degree to which OA approaches must remain flexible, iterative and multifaceted -no single solution can begin to accommodate the rich and varying needs of individual stakeholders.

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Perspectives on Open Access (OA) publishing among music scholars vary considerably, ranging from ... more Perspectives on Open Access (OA) publishing among music scholars vary considerably, ranging from those who identify as "an evangelist for open access" to those who are "totally against it." This study seeks to understand not only the OA practices of music scholars as evidenced by their scholarly output, but also their motivations and concerns, and situate these aspects within the broader disciplinary contexts that establish expectations and values for scholarly communications. Interviews with twenty-one music scholars in various subdisciplines explored experiences and motivations that led them to publish their work OA as well as factors that have discouraged them from doing so. Each participant discussed the availability of OA publishing opportunities that exist in their subdisciplines of music, how these are perceived, how they are evolving, and how they compare to opportunities in other disciplines. Participants also spoke to ways in which institutions support or value OA. LITERATURE REVIEW The benefits and hesitations around OA publishing are welldocumented in an extensive literature and will not be considered here. 1 Several studies have noted differences in publishing patterns and expectations in the arts and humanities that have implications for OA publishing. 2 Bo-Christer Jörk and Timo Korkeamäki, for example, found that in

Nineteenth-Century Music Review

A growing body of literature has shifted aesthetic attention from composition to performance, or ... more A growing body of literature has shifted aesthetic attention from composition to performance, or the performing activity, and asserts that the act of performance creates meaning.1 Scholars have emphasized differences between the passive consumption and active making of – or even listening to – music.2 As I sought to understand the impact of performance on Alma Mahler's legacy, I identified the need to gather as much data as possible on who, what, where, when, why, and how her songs were performed. This need led me to evaluate the metadata associated with recordings of Alma Mahler's songs in the WorldCat union catalogue and the video sharing platform YouTube. Recent studies have shown the utility of leveraging big data for musicology, although few scholars have done so to investigate reception history. This essay outlines one approach to data scraping YouTube with emphasis on the value to those researching recent Lieder reception, and in doing so highlights some of the promis...

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Milner Library, where she oversees the library's access and technical services, collection develo... more Milner Library, where she oversees the library's access and technical services, collection development, scholarly communication initiatives, and cultural heritage activities. Scott recently completed a PhD in historical musicology and conducts research at the intersections of information literacy, library collections and their discovery, music bibliography, and scholarly communications.

The Serials Librarian, 2022

Evidence Based Library and Information Practice, 2017

A Review of: Lloyd, A., & Wilkinson, J. (2017). Tapping into the information landscape: Refugee y... more A Review of: Lloyd, A., & Wilkinson, J. (2017). Tapping into the information landscape: Refugee youth enactment of information literacy in everyday spaces. Journal of Librarianship and Information Science. Advance online publication. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0961000617709058 Objective – To describe the ways in which refugee youth use everyday information to support their learning. Design – Photo voice technique, a process by which the population under consideration is provided with cameras and asked to visually document an aspect of their experience. Setting – Social agency in New South Wales, Australia Subjects – Fifteen 16-25 year old refugees resettled from South Sudan or Afghanistan Methods – Three workshops were conducted. In the first, participants learned how to use the cameras and the protocols for participation. Between the first and second workshops, participants took several photographs of places, sources and types of information that were personally meaningful. In the s...

This report describes the first year of a textbook affordability project by several Milner librar... more This report describes the first year of a textbook affordability project by several Milner librarians in which the library purchased electronic copies of assigned textbooks for the Fall 2020 and Spring 2021 semesters. The report provides an overview of the project and includes key findings related to student savings, enhancing equity in access to course materials, implications for student success, and the library\u27s return on investment.https://ir.library.illinoisstate.edu/mlp/1029/thumbnail.jp

9th International Conference on Digital Libraries for Musicology

Open Access (OA) publishing and FAIR Principles both present opportunities to make music and musi... more Open Access (OA) publishing and FAIR Principles both present opportunities to make music and music scholarship available to broader audiences and for innovative uses. This paper leverages findings from interviews conducted with music scholars about their perception of the opportunities, benefits, and disadvantages of OA publishing to explore how they might embrace FAIR Principles. While musicologists' engagement of OA is generally passive, their perception of it is positive enough that OA could be used as a starting point for a deeper understanding of FAIR Principles.

Evidence Based Library and Information Practice, 2020

A Review of: Teper, J. H. (2019). Considering “sameness” of monographic holdings in shared print ... more A Review of: Teper, J. H. (2019). Considering “sameness” of monographic holdings in shared print retention decisions. Library Resources & Technical Services, 63(1), 29-45. https://doi.org/10.5860/lrts.63n1.29 Objective – To investigate the degree to which books catalogued using the same bibliographic record differ and to consider the implications of these differences for cooperative monographic print retention programs. Design – Book condition survey. Setting – Academic library consortium in the United States of America. Subjects – 47 monographic titles, publication years 1851-1922, held by all consortium members and catalogued using the same respective OCLC record number. 625 out of a possible 705 circulating copies of these titles were available for item-level analysis via interlibrary loan. Methods – Book condition surveys were completed for all items and the resulting sets of assessment data points were analyzed to reveal trends. Main Results – 3.4% of items analyzed exhibited c...

Alma Mahler (1879–1964) grew up surrounded by artists in late nineteenth-century Vienna. Despite ... more Alma Mahler (1879–1964) grew up surrounded by artists in late nineteenth-century Vienna. Despite her musical training, demonstrated passion for music, and publication of several Lieder, Mahler’s identity as a composer has remained overshadowed by narratives surrounding her personal life and those of her husbands and lovers, not to mention the artistic work of her husbands and lovers. Increasingly, however, interest in Alma Mahler as a composer has been nurtured through creative engagement with that legacy, and frequently by women authors and artists. This dissertation explores the existing literature written by and related to Alma Mahler and identifies some approaches for reevaluating her legacy as a composer. Those writing about the life and legacy of Alma Mahler in the twenty-first century typically follow one of two established paths; that of the rational author writing the irrational female subject or that of creative, and frequently feminist, approaches to Mahler’s life and work. I propose a third path, one that acknowledges both of the aforementioned approaches, but that focuses on Mahler’s work instead of her words. By drawing attention to Mahler works—that is, her songs and the performance thereof—and considering how reception and recording of these songs has shifted over the past several decades, I am poised to assert that Mahler is a composer. The proliferation of diverging primary source materials surrounding her life and musical activities has prompted some to discount the narrative of Alma Mahler as a legitimate composer. This dissertation acknowledges the varied and often conflicting approaches to and perspectives on the idea of Alma Mahler as a composer and investigates how her music and its performance have been received in light of, and sometimes despite, her own writings. My work reconciles diverse facets of the composer by exploring her own words, the words of others, and, perhaps most importantly, her musical work in contemporary performance. It is my contention that by investigating Mahler through all of these frames, we can identify and contextualize the hidden but significant musical contributions of a young, female song composer in turn-of-the-century Vienna.

A number of studies investigate the usability of library websites, but usability is less commonly... more A number of studies investigate the usability of library websites, but usability is less commonly associated with the electronic resource life cycle. The usability of a website or electronic resource is a combination of several factors, including "intuitive design, ease of learning, efficiency of use, memorability, error frequency/severity, and subject satisfaction" and may be measured using a variety of quantitative and qualitative approaches (https://www.usability.gov/what-and-why/usability-evaluation.html). Through usability testing, websites or electronic resources are evaluated by actual or potential users of the resources. Testing can include various methods but it commonly involves users attempting to complete tasks while being observed by researchers. During observations, researchers can ask open-ended questions to gain an idea of how users feel about the ease of use of the website or resource being evaluated. Usability influences library patrons' use and satis...

Fontes Artis Musicae, 2020

and encouraging my part-time musicology. This project was inspired by Dr Linde Brocato, who share... more and encouraging my part-time musicology. This project was inspired by Dr Linde Brocato, who shared a book from the University of Memphis, McWherter Library collection originally owned by Oskar Hagen; my sincere thanks to her for putting me on the track of Hagen's musical contributions. 1. John Ogasapian notes several performances of Handel's music in Boston in the 1760s and 1770 in Music of the Colonial and Revolutionary Era (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2004). 2. Abbey E. Thompson, for example, indicates that she has not yet "found conclusive evidence of a relationship between Hagen and Josten"; correspondence between the two is presented in the conclusion of this article. "Revival, Revision, Rebirth: Handel Opera in Germany, 1920-1930" (MA Thesis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2006), 43. 3. No parts or full score from the 1927 production survive; accordingly, music will not be the focus of this article. 4. Henry Haskell notes the extraordinary response to the premiere of Rodelinda: "Reports of the performances appeared in some forty German newspapers; Hagen and his small band of Handel enthusiasts became celebrities almost overnight".

College & Research Libraries News, 2019

In the information age, data stewardship is crucial for individual and organizational productivit... more In the information age, data stewardship is crucial for individual and organizational productivity. It is easy to get overwhelmed by vast amounts of information being created every second. Information overload has become a common occurrence in the workplace to the extent that people “spend more time searching for the right information, leaving them less time for proper analyses using the acquired information.” Thus, the excess of information in the workplace can lead to stress, lack of productivity, and information fatigue.

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Nineteenth-Century Music Review

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The Serials Librarian, 2022

Evidence Based Library and Information Practice, 2017

9th International Conference on Digital Libraries for Musicology

Evidence Based Library and Information Practice, 2020

Fontes Artis Musicae, 2020

College & Research Libraries News, 2019

This dissertation explores the existing literature written by and related to Alma Mahler and identifies some approaches for reevaluating her legacy as a composer. Those writing about the life and legacy of Alma Mahler in the twenty-first century typically follow one of two established paths; that of the rational author writing the irrational female subject or that of creative, and frequently feminist, approaches to Mahler’s life and work. I propose a third path, one that acknowledges both of the aforementioned approaches, but that focuses on Mahler’s work instead of her words. By drawing attention to Mahler works—that is, her songs and the performance thereof—and considering how reception and recording of these songs has shifted over the past several decades, I am poised to assert that Mahler is a composer.

The proliferation of diverging primary source materials surrounding her life and musical activities has prompted some to discount the narrative of Alma Mahler as a legitimate composer. This dissertation acknowledges the varied and often conflicting approaches to and perspectives on the idea of Alma Mahler as a composer and investigates how her music and its performance have been received in light of, and sometimes despite, her own writings. My work reconciles diverse facets of the composer by exploring her own words, the words of others, and, perhaps most importantly, her musical work in contemporary performance. It is my contention that by investigating Mahler through all of these frames, we can identify and contextualize the hidden but significant musical contributions of a young, female song composer in turn-of-the-century Vienna.