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Finding The Golden Mean: An Efficient Model For Improving Discovery And Access For Legacy Theses And Dissertations In A Medical Library’S Institutional Repository, Brandon Pieczko

Medical Institutional Repositories in Libraries (MIRL)

Developing an efficient and cost-effective method for providing access to legacy print theses and dissertations is a challenge faced by many libraries that serve medical schools and other academic health science programs. The significant staff time and financial cost associated with systematically digitizing and providing complete online access to print theses and dissertations can be problematic given the potentially limited return on that investment as reflected in patron use statistics and other metrics. This presentation will describe how a medical school library improved the discoverability and accessibility of its legacy print theses and dissertations by implementing a cost-effective, selective digitization …

Risalud-Andalucia, The Institutional Repository Of The Public Health System Of Andalusia, Laura Muñoz-Gonzalez, Victoria Barragan-Roman, Eva Toro-Periñan, Juan Antonio Hernandez-Morales

Medical Institutional Repositories in Libraries (MIRL)

Introduction: The Andalusian Public Health System is made up of a public care network that has 63 hospitals, 1,500 primary care centers, 5 health research institutes, and other non-care public entities, mainly management and training institutions. RISalud-ANDALUCIA, the Institutional Repository of the Andalusian Public Health System is a unique and open space where the intellectual and scientific production generated by the professionals of the Andalusian Public Health System is gathered, as a result of their assistance, research and management activity.

Objective: Development of a new version of RISalud-ANDALUCIA which implies a new software upgrade and functional improvement. Methodology RISalud-ANDALUCIA, was …

Cu Anschutz Digital Collections Migration: From Dspace To Hyku, Raven Morrigan

Medical Institutional Repositories in Libraries (MIRL)

Strauss Library at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus was part of the regional group of repositories called Mountain Scholar using DSpace when the lead for Mountain Scholar, Colorado State University (CSU), announced that they could no longer afford to support the Mountain Scholar instance. All the libraries currently part of Mountain Scholar had to decide whether to migrate to ContentDM with CSU or strike out on their own. Strauss Library considered our options, and with University of Colorado Boulder using Samvera, decided to pursue migrating to Samvera. The library completed the migration to Hyku, an extension of Samvera, …

A Tale Of Two Migrations: A Medical Library Case Report, Lisa Palmer, Tess Grynoch, Sally Gore

Medical Institutional Repositories in Libraries (MIRL)

Launched in 2006, the eScholarship@UMassChan institutional repository has been an important digital platform at UMass Chan Medical School, hosting faculty research, student research, and unique original publications and scholarship. In June 2021, UMass Chan’s Lamar Soutter Library decided to migrate eScholarship@UMassChan from the bepress Digital Commons platform to two separate hosted platforms. Most content – over 25,000 items representing faculty and staff publications, theses and dissertations, conference proceedings, and departmental and project collections – moved to Open Repository, a DSpace repository platform hosted by Atmire. The Janeway publishing platform became the new home for the open access, peer-reviewed journals and …

Case Study: The Challenge Of Building An Italian National Repository Dedicated To The Field Of Medical Research, Susanna Mornati, Irene Buso, Federico Verlicchi, Andrea Bollini

Medical Institutional Repositories in Libraries (MIRL)

4Science is designing a repository for a multi-institutional health system dedicated to medical research. The idea, promoted by a consortium of healthcare and health research institutions, will operate on the initial basis of the library network of these institutions. The idea of the project, which draws its foundations from the DSpace-CRIS platform, is to create a repository in which the libraries are interconnected and can thus share the repository infrastructure.

With this presentation, 4Science intends to expose and share the issues and opportunities that have arisen from working with such a large and complicated infrastructure as the Italian health system …

Conference Program And Welcome: Medical Institutional Repositories In Libraries 2022 (Mirl 2022), Medical Institutional Repositories In Libraries

Medical Institutional Repositories in Libraries (MIRL)

Program for the Medical Institutional Repositories in Libraries (MIRL 2022) Symposium that took place on Thursday, November 17, 2022.

Faculty Perceptions Of Oa A Quantitative Analysis, Kara Jones, Alanna Ross, Jeneice Lusk, Veronique Lecat

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

A quantitative survey of faculty perceptions of Open Access (OA)

publishing was conducted at the American University of Sharjah (AUS), a

small liberal arts style University in the United Arab Emirates.

The survey aimed to assess faculty perceptions of the credibility and

quality of OA publishing. We were curious to discover the range of

interpretations and understanding of OA amongst our faculty members

in order to inform ongoing outreach and scholarly communications

activity.

Coding Discovery Between 3 Systems: Omeka, Alma & Primo, Keiko Okuhara

Sandbox Series

This session will introduce a sustainable process for promoting faculty publications through an online catalog by making three systems interoperable; Omeka (Data provider), Alma (Library System), and Primo (Discovery platform) by devising the version 2.0 Open Archive Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) in other words, OAI protocol. The OAI-PMH Repository plugin of the Omeka Classic allows an institutional repository (IR), a data provider, to be harvested in the discovery platform, Primo, to make a bridge for repository interoperability.

Community-Driven Repository Infrastructure Programs At Lyrasis—An Overview, Paolo P. Gujilde, Sheila Rabun, Hannah Rosen

Medical Institutional Repositories in Libraries (MIRL)

Academic libraries, and institutional repositories in particular, play a key role in the ongoing quest for ways to gather metrics and connect the dots between researchers and research contributions in order to measure “institutional impact,” while also streamlining workflows to reduce administrative burden. Identifying accurate metrics and measurements for illustrating “impact” is a goal that many academic research institutions share, but these goals can only be met to the extent that all organizations across the research and scholarly communication landscape are using best practices and shared standards in research infrastructure. For example, persistent identifiers (PIDs) such as ORCID iDs (Open …

Going Beyond The Ir: Using Content-Specific Platforms And Targeted Outreach To Provide Integrated Access To A Medical School’S Education Scholarship, Brandon T. Pieczko, Hannah J. Craven

Medical Institutional Repositories in Libraries (MIRL)

To increase local contributions to medical education scholarship, a medical school began hosting an annual school-wide conference in 2020. Two librarians worked proactively with conference organizers to preserve and provide access to presentation materials and session recordings. This targeted outreach became more effective in the second year as students and faculty were invited on the conference submission form to express interest in contributing materials to the university’s institutional repository. The librarians were able to use this list of interested participants to obtain permissions, additional information, and address potential questions rather than relying on a post-hoc solicitation of conference materials. Workflow …

A Snapshot Of Changes In University-Based Institutional Repositories In Thailand, Wachiraporn Klungthanaboon

COAR Asia OA Meeting 2021

Several Thai universities have been developing institutional repositories for over a decade. The libraries, which are in charge of maintaining the repositories, and their repository staff have encountered challenging changes along the way. The following three major changes will be discussed in this presentation: 1) making IR collections more open, 2) aligning practices with global standards, and 3) expanding the content coverage and services to include research data.

Open Scholarship Developments In Education And Science, Ngân Chu

COAR Asia OA Meeting 2021

There were 2 parts to the presentation:

1. Open Educational Resources (OER) in Vietnam: introduce Vietnam OER and conferences to advocate and develop OER in Vietnam.

2. Scientific Resources for Research Activities in VAST (Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology): Introduce VAST and the resources of VAST for science and technology services.

Open Access And Open Science In Singapore, Lian-Ping Ooi

COAR Asia OA Meeting 2021

Developments and update of Open Access and Open Science in Singapore.

Panel Discussion 1 | Investing In Open Infrastructure And Service: The Benefits And Challenges At University Of Hong Kong, Jesse Xiao

COAR Asia OA Meeting 2021

Covered the open infrastructure used by University of Hong Kong for Scholar Hub on DSpace, DataHub, DMP Platform on DMPTools, Ejournal service on OJS, Research Intelligence Hub (on-going), new research output system (on-going). Some of the challenges encountered when using open infrastructure.

International Visibility Of Thesis And Dissertations From Ulisboa Through The Institutional Repositories: Gateway For Open Science, Tatiana Sanches, Luiza Baptista Melo, Silvia Costa Lopes, Susanna Oliveira Henriques

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

Institutional repositories of universities are initiatives that integrate the concept of Open Science, enhancing the free circulation of academic and scientific production. The current University of Lisbon (ULisboa) results from the fusion of the former University of Lisbon and Technical University of Lisbon, in 2013. Currently, ULisboa comprises 18 schools. Since the fusion, University of Lisbon still has two independent institutional repositories based on DSpace – the Repositório.UL and the UTL Repository. Focused on the collection of theses and dissertations, the aim of the following study is to look at the scientific production of ULisboa and analyse the international visibility …

Deans' Panel: Digital Collections And Institutional Repositories, Jennifer L. Fabbi, Maggie Farrell, Larry Alford

Digital Initiatives Symposium

Three library deans/chief directors from public universities representing different sizes and missions will address how their unique places in their communities have influence the choices they make around digital collections and institutional repositories. Each panelist will share contextual information and an example of an initiative that reflects the needs of the defined community and furthers the libraries’ goals and values.

The Effectiveness Of Library Instruction For Graduate/Professional Students: A Systematic Review And Meta-Analysis, Adelia B. Grabowsky, Liza J. Weisbrod

Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy

Library instruction to improve information literacy (IL) is often considered essential only for undergraduates. However, students in graduate/professional programs do not always have the requisite skills needed for graduate level study and research, which suggests they may also benefit from library instruction targeted specifically to graduate students. This study used a systematic review and meta-analysis to assess the effectiveness of library instruction for increasing IL skills and/or knowledge among graduate and professional students. The authors searched seven databases to identify studies published in English between 2000 and 2019 that reported on library instruction for graduate or professional students, and objectively …

A Dream Of Spring: Creation Of An Ir Managers Forum, Christy L. M. Shorey, Anna J. Dabrowski, Pamela Andrews, Erin Jerome

Charleston Library Conference

Sometimes it’s hard to find answers for work-related questions. This difficulty is compounded when one lacks the means to engage with a community of peers who face similar situations and problems. As institutional repository (IR) managers, we found ourselves with access to resources and listservs that didn’t quite fit our needs. Available discussion spaces were either too general in scope, drowning out repository-specific concerns; or too narrowly focused on platform-specific issues and technical details.

Lacking an appropriate forum, we decided to create a discussion space for IR managers. The IR Manager Forum (https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/irmanagers) is designed to foster a community of …

Managing Etds: The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly, Dan Tam Do, Laura Gewissler

Charleston Library Conference

Mandating contribution of theses and dissertations (TDs) to university archives and their electronic equivalents (ETDs) to an institutional repository (IR) is common practice. Optimizing workflows for archival print copies while managing electronic copies in an IR can be challenging given such factors as embargoes and the skill sets required to ensure theses and dissertations are accessible, discoverable, and ultimately safely stashed where they belong. As rational processes were gradually developed at the University of Vermont, pitfalls and breakthroughs presented themselves. This article relates our experience launching an ETD mandate, including campus outreach initiatives and improvements to the various related processes …

Getting To Know Our Web Archive: A Pilot Project To Collaboratively Increase Access To Digital Cultural Heritage Materials In Wyoming, Amanda R. Lehman, Bryan Ricupero

Digital Initiatives Symposium

The University of Wyoming is the only four year higher education institution in the state, a unique position amongst colleges and universities in the United States. Given this unusual status it is especially important that the university libraries use their resources to identify and partner with communities around the state to build collections that preserve their cultural heritage. An Archive-It subscription was purchased in 2016, with an initial goal of capturing university related materials. In an effort to expand the scope and meaningfulness of the web archive, a project has been undertaken to use university and statewide relationships to build …

Value Of Curation, Lisa Johnston

IASSIST & DCN - Data Curation Workshop

This presentation focuses on explaining the value of data curation, foundation data curation activities, and an introduction to the CURATE steps.

Supporting Research Information Management In The Research University: Partnerships, Challenges, And Possibilities, Rebecca Bryant, Beth Sandore Namachchivaya, Julie Speer

Charleston Library Conference

Research universities are increasingly engaging in complex efforts to collect and synthesize information about an institution’s research footprint. The collection, updating, and sharing of the campus’s bibliographic research outputs is an increasingly important part of this effort, as institutions seek to develop external profiling systems and enable collaborator discovery and to also increasingly internally understand the research strengths and synergies of an institution for planning and assessment. Institutions are adopting a variety of tools to support research information management (RIM), faculty activity reporting (FAR), and researcher collaboration and discovery on campus. In this presentation, we will talk about the complex …

Case Study - A Call To Action: Migrating The Reveille To Digital Commons, Elizabeth Chance, Jennifer Sauer

Digital Commons - Heartland User Group + IR Day

No abstract provided.

Digital Public Library Of America (Dpla) & Metadata, Anneliese Dehner

Northwest IR User Group

More Metadata: How do you evaluate the quality of your metadata? How do you determine where to put your energies when approaching a metadata cleanup project? What's in your metadata toolset and what's the best tool for the job? When is it a good idea to normalize your metadata to controlled vocabularies, and does your IR even allow this kind of normalization? Discussion of the nuts and bolts of metadata cleanup, and how to do it with limited staff time. Possible activity: uploading a sample dataset to OpenRefine (http://openrefine.org/), evaluating the set against the requirements of the Alliance …

Hyrax, Hyku, Hywhat? Update On The Hydra-In-A-Box Repository Project And Demo Of A Live Application, Steve Van Tuyl, Mike Giarlo

Northwest IR User Group

In this presentation, we will give an update on the Hydra-in-a-Box project, introduce attendees to the features of the HyBox repository product (Hyku) and offer a live demo of the Oregon State University Institutional Repository, ScholarsArchive@OSU, recently migrated from DSpace to the Hydra application, Hyrax.

Initiative To Adopt An Open Access Publication Policy For Faculty, Jingping Zhang, Larry Sheret

Ohio IR Day

Jingping Zhang, University Librarian/Director of Libraries' Operations at Marshall University, discussed MU's initiative to adopt an Open Access Publication Policy for faculty.

Get Me Data! A Data Purchase Program For Students, Eric Johnson

Ohio IR Day

Eric Johnson, Data Librarian at Miami University, discussed the data purchase program for undergraduate students at Miami University.

Beyond Electric Dreams: Instituting A Dam Program Where It Is Needed But Maybe Not Wanted, Gregory Johnson

Central Plains Network for Digital Asset Management

Digital content is created every second of everyday and can be found everywhere. And the need to preserve this content, as well as the have it available to your students, patrons, or faculty and staff is at a premium while budgets for DAM dwindle. And while the need and want for DAM is often there, the drive and funds to make it a reality sometimes is not.

This presentation will cover one such DAM implementation project at a Fortune 500 company, beginning with the vetting and purchasing of a DAM system through implementation and show how the lessons from its …

The Open Movement: What Libraries Can Do, Sheila Corrall

Charleston Library Conference

Open approaches have moved beyond open access, open source software, and open courseware to developments with open infrastructure and open processes. Open initiatives are gaining momentum as a result of both bottom‐up grassroots activism and top‐down policy agenda. In a few instances, they have already reached a tipping point; but in many cases they are being pursued separately by specialist groups, suffering from fragmentation, and not always having their expected outcomes or impacts. Our study of open initiatives uses a simple overarching definition of open resources, and introduces a convenient framework enabling shared understanding of three different types of openness—open …

Detailed Search Stats From Dspace Solr, Eric Johnson

Ohio IR Day

Eric Johnson of Miami University, Ohio, discussed obtaining more detailed usage statistics for Miami University's DSpace institutional repository using Solr.