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Escholarship@Umms Brochure, Lisa A. Palmer

Lisa A. Palmer

Brochure and poster created to promote eScholarship@UMMS, UMass Medical School's digital repository and publishing system for research and scholarship, which is managed by the Lamar Soutter Library. The intended audience is faculty, researchers, staff, and students at UMass Medical School.

Storage Made Simple: Preserving Digital Objects With Bepress Archive And Amazon S3, Lisa A. Palmer

Lisa A. Palmer

One of the “purposeful pathways” in the UMass Medical School Lamar Soutter Library’s 2016-2020 strategic plan is to “responsibly preserve institutional investments in purchased and unique content” [1]. Upon completion of the strategic plan, the library began to investigate digital preservation services for its institutional repository on the Digital Commons platform, eScholarship@UMMS. Although content on bepress platforms is protected by a robust infrastructure that includes multiple backups and cloud storage with Amazon Glacier, the library was interested in an additional level of preservation and control, at a minimal cost. After researching various options over many months, in 2016 the library …

Taking Flight To Disseminate Translational Research: A Partnership Between The Umass Center For Clinical And Translational Science And The Library’S Institutional Repository, Lisa A. Palmer, Sally A. Gore

Lisa A. Palmer

eScholarship@UMMS is the University of Massachusetts Medical School’s open access digital archive of research and scholarship, managed by the Lamar Soutter Library. The Library began collaborating with the UMass Center for Clinical and Translational Science (UMCCTS) in 2011. eScholarship@UMMS facilitates knowledge and resource sharing of the UMCCTS by collecting and organizing its research products, including Research Retreat posters and presentations, Community Engagement Symposia products, the UMCCTS Newsletter, the UMCCTS Seminar Series, and publications that are the result of UMCCTS-supported research. eScholarship@UMMS provides long-term stable URLs for access to content, which are highly discoverable in Google and other search engines, maximizing …

Escholarship@Umms Reaches 1 Million Downloads!, Lisa A. Palmer

Lisa A. Palmer

Repository Outreach: Engaging Partners Across Campus, Lisa A. Palmer

Lisa A. Palmer

Lisa Palmer, Institutional Repository Librarian at UMass Medical School, has developed excellent outreach strategies for working with faculty on grant-funded research support, including data management. In particular, she’ll discuss how she and her colleagues have leveraged the institutional repository in a collaboration with the UMass Center for Clinical and Translational Science on an NIH grant, and to support a Women’s Health Research grant from the National Library of Medicine.

Presentation for the ACRL 2015 bepress IR All-Star Tailgate event in Portland, OR, on March 25, 2015.

Escholarship@Umms Flyer, Lisa A. Palmer

Lisa A. Palmer

Flyer and poster created to promote eScholarship@UMMS, UMass Medical School's digital archive and publishing system for research and scholarship, which is managed by the Lamar Soutter Library. The intended audience is faculty, researchers, staff, and students at UMass Medical School.