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Building Your Selected Works Profile, Denise O'Shea Apr 2018

Building Your Selected Works Profile, Denise O'Shea

Denise O'Shea

Instructions for building your Selected Works profile and associating that profile with Montclair State University.


Elsevier, Bepress, And A Glimpse At The Future Of Scholarly Communication, Cris Ferguson Dec 2017

Elsevier, Bepress, And A Glimpse At The Future Of Scholarly Communication, Cris Ferguson

Cris Ferguson

The acquisition of bepress by Elsevier in August 2017, while unpopular among many librarians, provides both companies opportunities for expansion and growth.  This Balance Point column outlines some of the benefits to both companies and the reaction by the library community. Also addressed is the announcement by the Penn Libraries that they are searching for a new open source repository potentially to replace bepress’s Digital Commons.  The column concludes with some discussion of Elsevier’s relationship with open access content and the impact of the acquisition on the scholarly communications infrastructure.


Storage Made Simple: Preserving Digital Objects With Bepress Archive And Amazon S3, Lisa A. Palmer Jul 2017

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 …


Annual Report Of The Indiana University Maurer School Of Law Digital Repository, 2015/16, Richard Vaughan Nov 2016

Annual Report Of The Indiana University Maurer School Of Law Digital Repository, 2015/16, Richard Vaughan

Richard Vaughan

A brief annual report documenting the use and growth of the Indiana University Maurer School of Law, Jerome Hall Law Library, Digital Repository. Includes lists of the most downloaded documents and attached Excel spreadsheets of data.


Annual Report Of The Indiana University Maurer School Of Law Digital Repository, 2014/15, Richard Vaughan Feb 2016

Annual Report Of The Indiana University Maurer School Of Law Digital Repository, 2014/15, Richard Vaughan

Richard Vaughan

A brief annual report documenting the use and growth of the Indiana University Maurer School of Law, Jerome Hall Law Library, Digital Repository. Highlights include lists of the most downloaded documents and a complete statistical analysis of all uploads and downloads.


The Indiana University Maurer School Of Law Digital Repository: A Snapshot Of The First Two Years (2011/12 & 2012/13), Richard Vaughan Feb 2016

The Indiana University Maurer School Of Law Digital Repository: A Snapshot Of The First Two Years (2011/12 & 2012/13), Richard Vaughan

Richard Vaughan

A snapshot of the first two years of the Indiana University Maurer School of Law Library Digital Repository. Highlights include lists of the most downloaded documents and a complete statistical analysis of all uploads and downloads. To be published on an annual basis in the future.


The Keep At Two: The First Two Years Of Our Institutional Repository, Todd Bruns Nov 2013

The Keep At Two: The First Two Years Of Our Institutional Repository, Todd Bruns

Todd A. Bruns

This document highlights the growth, milestones, and achievements of the first two years of the Eastern Illinois University institutional repository, The Keep. Founded in the fall of 2011, The Keep has grown to include over 27,000 documents, making it one of the largest bepress repositories in the Midwest. From faculty scholarship to student publications to archival photos and campus events, The Keep documents, preserves, and promotes the academic life of the Eastern campus.
Todd Bruns ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1197-2521


Challenges And Opportunities For Medical Institutional Repositories, Dan Kipnis, Msi, Ann E. Koopman, Am, Lisa Palmer, Msls, Ahip Oct 2011

Challenges And Opportunities For Medical Institutional Repositories, Dan Kipnis, Msi, Ann E. Koopman, Am, Lisa Palmer, Msls, Ahip

Lisa A. Palmer

Description Thomas Jefferson University Library and University of Massachusetts Medical School Library have two important things in common: successful institutional repositories and experienced library leaders that developed them. Please join Dan Kipnis and Ann Koopman of Thomas Jefferson University, and Lisa Palmer of University of Massachusetts Medical School for a free webinar on institutional repositories (IRs) at medical schools. Speakers will explore how each organization decided to start an IR, how the IRs have evolved, unique IR collections, successful partnerships, challenges and opportunities, and the future of medical IRs.


Digitalcommons@Linfield, Kathleen Spring Jun 2011

Digitalcommons@Linfield, Kathleen Spring

Kathleen Spring

This 30-minute presentation introduced DigitalCommons@Linfield, the institutional repository for Linfield College, to the attendees of the 2011 Faculty Development Workshop at Linfield College.


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.