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Amanda McCormick

Faculty Services Librarian

Pronouns: she/her/hers

221B O'Brian Hall, North Campus
Buffalo, NY 14260

afm33@buffalo.edu

Office Hours

Available via email, phone, zoom etc.   

Department Liaison

Faculty Services Librarian, UB School of Law

Education and Training

Publications

Contributions to Books  

“Standards and the Law,” invited chapter contribution for Teaching and Collecting Technical Standards: A Handbook for Librarians and Educators, edited by Chelsea Leachman, Erin Rowley, Margaret Philips, and Daniela Solomon (2023). Purdue University Press.  

Journal Articles (Refereed)  

McCormick, A. & Rowley, E. (2024). Cancelling the ‘Big Deal’: STEM Faculty Perceptions and Analyzing Usage Data Post Cancellation. Submitted. 

McCormick, A., Brown, E., Flynn, K., & Tran, C. (2024). The Use of Preprints in Doctorate Programs: A Citation Analysis Study of Trends in Chemistry and Physics Dissertations. Accepted for publication in Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship. 

McCormick, A., Klotzbach-Russell, C., & Plassche, K. (2022). The Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Tenure-Track Librarians. portal: Libraries & the Academy, 22(4), 879-917. https://doi-org.gate.lib.buffalo.edu/10.1353/pla.2022.0046.    

McCormick, A. (2021). Collection Development for Librarians in a Hurry: A Survey of the Physics Resources of the Libraries of the Association of American Universities. Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, (96). https://doi-org.gate.lib.buffalo.edu/10.29173/istl68.   

McCormick, A., Adams, S. A., Dunbar, H., & McLean-Plunkett, S. (2020). Teaching Copyright Law through Participatory Involvement in an Unconference Setting. Journal of Copyright in Education and Librarianship, 4(1), 1-13. https://doi-org.gate.lib.buffalo.edu/10.17161/jcel.v4i1.13283.   

McCormick, A. (2014). Copyright, Fair Use and the Digital Age in Academic Libraries: A Review of the Literature. SJSU School of Information Student Research Journal, 4(2). http://scholarworks.sjsu.edu.gate.lib.buffalo.edu/slissrj/vol4/iss2/.   

Consultations/Projects (Non-Refereed) 

 “Pathways to Librarianship,” Research Assistant for project funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services and led by Syracuse University School of Information Studies and the New York Library Association, RE-252365-OLS-22. https://pathways.ischool.syr.edu/   

Cooper, D., & Rieger, O. Y. (2021). What’s the Big Deal? How Researchers Are Navigating Changes to Journal Access. https://doi-org.gate.lib.buffalo.edu/10.18665/sr.315570 (co-investigator on IRB-approved research project).  

 

 

Research Guides

Each subject taught at the University has a research guide available for your use. The research guides are a compilation of library resources for a particular subject that are prepared by the librarian who specializes in a subject area. 

Search UB Research Guides.  The default listing is by subject -  click into a SUBJECT for a guide listing.  Or, you may search by owner for an alternative listing.