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The Past, Present, & Future Of Capturing The Scholarly Record Of A Small Comprehensive U.S. Institution: Toward A Sustained Repository Content Recruitment And Workflow Strategy, Jonathan Bull, Teresa Auch Schultz
The Past, Present, & Future Of Capturing The Scholarly Record Of A Small Comprehensive U.S. Institution: Toward A Sustained Repository Content Recruitment And Workflow Strategy, Jonathan Bull, Teresa Auch Schultz
Jonathan Bull
For smaller institutions, limited staffing, expertise, and content recruitment all threaten an IR’s success. Launched in 2011, ValpoScholar (scholar.valpo.edu) is on its second version of content recruitment and workflow design with a third version in beta. With a primary focus on capturing metadata before moving to full-text access and preservation, this evolving approach has led to a 25 percent increase in record creation, while also increasing full-text availability. This poster will share this changing process.
Retraining Staff For Digital Initiatives, Jonathan Bull, Patricia Hogan-Vidal
Retraining Staff For Digital Initiatives, Jonathan Bull, Patricia Hogan-Vidal
Jonathan Bull
No abstract provided.
Contributions To The Scholarly Record: Conferences & Symposia In The Repository, Jonathan Bull, Stephanie Davis-Kahl
Contributions To The Scholarly Record: Conferences & Symposia In The Repository, Jonathan Bull, Stephanie Davis-Kahl
Jonathan Bull
Many academic libraries have found opportunities to showcase unique content through conference-hosting services, such as website-hosting and conference proceeding publishing. This poster describes two libraries’ successful efforts to archive conference materials from an undergraduate research conference and a professional conference for scholars. Through the lens of these two case studies, the repository coordinators will discuss engaging with presenters on topics of author rights, ethical use of others’ work in their presentations, creating a sustainable infrastructure for continued growth of the conference, and collaborating with faculty.
Becoming A Trusted Scholarly Communications Expert, Jonathan Bull
Becoming A Trusted Scholarly Communications Expert, Jonathan Bull
Jonathan Bull
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Will Open Access Get Me Cited? An Analysis Of The Efficacy Of Open Access Publishing In Political Science, Amy Atchison, Jonathan Bull
Will Open Access Get Me Cited? An Analysis Of The Efficacy Of Open Access Publishing In Political Science, Amy Atchison, Jonathan Bull
Jonathan Bull
The digital revolution has made it easier for Political Scientists to share and access high-quality research online. However, many of these articles are stored in proprietary databases that some institutions cannot afford. High-quality, peer reviewed, top-tier journal articles that have been made open access (freely available online) should theoretically be more easily accessed and cited than articles of similar quality that are only available to paying customers. Research into the efficacy of Open Access (OA) publishing has thus far focused mainly on the natural sciences, and the results have been mixed. Because OA has not been as widely adopted in …