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Take Advantage Of The Jefferson Digital Commons For Shameless Self-Promotion, Ann Koopman, Am, Daniel G. Kipnis, Msi Jan 2015

Take Advantage Of The Jefferson Digital Commons For Shameless Self-Promotion, Ann Koopman, Am, Daniel G. Kipnis, Msi

Daniel G. Kipnis

It's a win-win academic opportunity--promote your Jefferson research and publishing efforts to the world by participating in the Jefferson Digital Commons (JDC). The JDC increases your visibility. With over 2,000 different archived full-text resources including academic articles, posters, preprints, videos, images, teaching materials and newsletters you get permanent public space for all types of files AND your work is indexed by search engines like Google. Receive monthly alerts notifying you how many times your works have been downloaded. Create a faculty researcher page. Use the JDC as a university press and publish your department newsletters or create a new journal. …


Feeding The Fledgling Repository: Starting An Institutional Repository At An Academic Health Sciences Library, Ann E. Koopman, Am, Daniel Kipnis Apr 2009

Feeding The Fledgling Repository: Starting An Institutional Repository At An Academic Health Sciences Library, Ann E. Koopman, Am, Daniel Kipnis

Daniel G. Kipnis

In 2005, the Scott Memorial Library at Thomas Jefferson University started an institutional repository (IR), the Jefferson Digital Commons (JDC) <http://jdc.jefferson.edu/>. Originally intended as a showcase for faculty scholarship, it has evolved to serve also as a university press for original journals and newsletters, and as an institutional archive. Many lessons have been learned about marketing techniques, common IR issues, and advantages of an IR for a library. IR recruitment has come to be viewed as yet another form of collection development and has been integrated into all forms of the Library's outreach. Jefferson's academic health sciences environment …