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Jean-Gabriel Bankier

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100 Stories: The Impact Of Open Access, Jean-Gabriel Bankier, Promita Chatterji Nov 2016

100 Stories: The Impact Of Open Access, Jean-Gabriel Bankier, Promita Chatterji

Jean-Gabriel Bankier

This report looks to answer the question: "why does open access matter?" We examined 100 stories of impact to produce a framework for describing the concrete benefits of open access for readers, authors and institutions. We aspire to move the open access conversation forward by making the case, backed by data, that the benefits of open access are real, widespread and significant.  

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Modeling A Shared National Cross Digital Repository, Jean-Gabriel Bankier Jun 2014

Modeling A Shared National Cross Digital Repository, Jean-Gabriel Bankier

Jean-Gabriel Bankier

The United States Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) delivered an open access directive in early 2013 mandating that federally funded research articles and associated data must be made accessible online to the public, free of charge. In response to this mandate, university and library organizations proposed the Shared Access Research Ecosystem (SHARE). With experience in the design and creation of large-scale federated repositories, bepress, best known for our hosted institutional repository platform Digital Commons, can offer unique insight into what makes a federated repository successful. This paper will outline the attributes of a successful shared national cross digital …

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Who's Afraid Of Repository Rankings? How To Define And Measure Institutional Repository Success Apr 2014

Who's Afraid Of Repository Rankings? How To Define And Measure Institutional Repository Success

Jean-Gabriel Bankier

As institutional repositories grow and thrive, many institutions are eager to quantify and benchmark their hard work and success. The proposal presented in this workshop is intended to serve as a starting point for the creation of a simple and measurable set of IR success metrics that would serve the needs of the broad community of repository managers and stakeholders. The benchmarking models being presented in this workshop come from analyzing deposit and activity data from hundreds of repositories, and are founded upon in-depth interviews with repository managers about their goals. The aim of this workshop is to create platform-agnostic …

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Interview With Jean-Gabriel Bankier, President & Ceo Of Bepress Apr 2014

Interview With Jean-Gabriel Bankier, President & Ceo Of Bepress

Jean-Gabriel Bankier

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Institutional Repository Software Comparison Dec 2013

Institutional Repository Software Comparison

Jean-Gabriel Bankier

Institutional Repositories were first developed as an online solution for collecting, preserving, and disseminating the scholarship of universities, colleges, and other research institutions. The repository quickly evolved into a platform for libraries to publish and showcase the entire breadth of an institution’s scholarship including articles, books, theses, dissertations, and journals. Added support for images, video, audio, and other media has brought greater depth to repository collections. Since 2000, a number of repository platforms have been developed, each with their own set of benefits and technical criteria. Initially it was believed that repositories had to be open source and locally installed. …

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Picas To Pixels: An Interview With Jean-Gabriel Bankier, President And Ceo Of Bepress Aug 2010

Picas To Pixels: An Interview With Jean-Gabriel Bankier, President And Ceo Of Bepress

Jean-Gabriel Bankier

In the second part of a two-part series showcasing institutional repository software applications, “From Picas to Pixels” editor Chad Hutchens interviews president and CEO of bepress, Jean-Gabriel Bankier. Bankier discusses bepress' hosted institutional repository Digital Commons and addresses customization, capabilities, and trends at successful institutions. He also presents concrete examples of how numerous institutions are using Digital Commons to promote conferences, capture campus events, host non-traditional publications, as well as traditional peer-reviewed publications.

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The Institutional Repository Rediscovered: What Can A University Do For Open Access Publishing? Jan 2008

The Institutional Repository Rediscovered: What Can A University Do For Open Access Publishing?

Jean-Gabriel Bankier

Universities have always been one of the key players in open access publishing and have encountered the particular obstacle that faces this Green model of open access, namely, disappointing author uptake. Today, the university has a unique opportunity to reinvent and reinvigorate the model of the institutional repository. This article explores what is not working about the way we talk about repositories to authors today and how we can better meet faculty needs. More than an archive, a repository can be a showcase that allows scholars to build attractive scholarly profiles, and a platform to publish original content in emerging …

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