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Marketing An Established Institutional Repository: Marquette Libraries’ Research Stewardship Survey, Rose Fortier, Emily Laws

Rose Fortier

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to discuss the results of Marquette University Libraries’ survey measuring faculty knowledge and attitudes about the institution’s repository, for the purposes of creating a marketing plan for the institutional repository (IR). Design/methodology/approach The paper adopts a quantitative approach through the use of a survey. Findings Like many other endeavors to measure faculty engagement with the IR, the investigators discovered that faculty knowledge of the IR is not universal. Moreover, the perceived values and motivators for faculty use of the IR were also not surprising, with faculty viewing online dissemination of their work to …

Marketing The Ir: Strategies From The Marquette Survey, Rose Fortier

Rose Fortier

Marquette University’s institutional repository, e-Publications@Marquette, was established in 2008 for the deposit of faculty publications and research. Despite active participation by some faculty, universal participation remains an elusive goal. During the spring of 2013, faculty participation and needs were assessed via survey and compared to the IR’s capabilities in addressing those needs. Based upon the assessment survey and the IR’s available resources, a marketing plan and promotional strategies were created. The presentation will include analysis of the survey results and how they informed the creation of a marketing plan. Details of the marketing plan will be discussed as well as …

Collaboration Is The New Black, Mark Y. Herring

Dacus Library Faculty Publications

Orange may be the new black, but as I have seen only five minutes of that show, I can’t really use it here. Besides, based on the five minutes I saw, I would assume it is a series written by males. Not since the Victoria’s Secret catalog have I seen so many women wearing fewer clothes, or engaging in so many unmentionable acts. I’ll stop there because my Victorianism is showing, I’m sure.

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 …

Untangling Digital Knots, Lauren P. Seney, Daniel H. Weddington

Lauren P. Seney

No abstract provided.

Untangling Digital Knots, Lauren P. Seney, Daniel H. Weddington

Library Staff Publications

No abstract provided.

Data Management For Research Grants: A Marquette Pilot Project, Rose Fortier, Lynn K. Whittenberger

Rose Fortier

Presenters will report on an ongoing pilot project to manage data generated by National Science Foundation grants using bepress’ Digital Commons institutional repository software. The challenge of creating a home for data on a repository created for publications was met through the creation of a series that brings together all grant output, i.e. raw and aggregated data, publications, presentations, and other research output. Further challenges in obtaining and managing varying formats of raw data (numerical, image, video, sound), and large volumes of data will be discussed. Metadata for series with such diverse formats presents its own difficulties, especially when a …

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 …

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

Ann Connolly

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 …

Just In Time! Digital Commons@Georgia Southern Offers A Suite Of Services For The Entire Campus, Debra G. Skinner

Debra G. Skinner

This presentation will describe marketing efforts for Georgia Southern’s institutional repository platform and how the library handled demand for repository services such as conference and journal hosting, revised electronic journal and thesis procedures, highlights of faculty research, hosting university procedures and many more services.

Just In Time! Digital Commons@Georgia Southern Offers A Suite Of Services For The Entire Campus, Debra G. Skinner

Library Faculty Presentations

This presentation will describe marketing efforts for Georgia Southern’s institutional repository platform and how the library handled demand for repository services such as conference and journal hosting, revised electronic journal and thesis procedures, highlights of faculty research, hosting university procedures and many more services.

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

Jean-Gabriel Bankier

No abstract provided.

Bangladesh: An Overview Of Open Access (Oa) Initiatives, Md. Nazim Uddin, Tracey Lynn Pérez Koehlmoos, Shaikh A Shahed Hossain

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The present paper describes about the universal access to knowledge and information in the network and digital environment. The paper discusses the Open Access (OA) and Institutional Repositories (IR) initiatives for global access, repository, preservation, and organized management of networked information services in an environment where both the users and resources are at varied locations. The paper highlights the importance of open access and Institutional Repositories initiatives to the system of scholarly communication in Bangladesh. The paper explains research communities’ benefits of open access, salient features of ICT in Bangladesh, initiatives of institutional repositories in Bangladesh, open access movement in …

Organizing The Peacock Parade : Faculty Buy-In For The Institutional Repository And Open Access Publishing, Carol G. Hixson, Deborah Boran Henry, Tina M. Neville

USF St. Petersburg campus Faculty Publications

This session will demonstrate how even a small institution with limited staffing and resources can achieve more than 30 percent buy-in of their faculty to the institutional repository (IR) and increase awareness of and support for open access publishing on their campus.

Institutional Repository Software Comparison

Jean-Gabriel Bankier