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Creating A Repository Keyhole: Implementation, Connie Foster
Creating A Repository Keyhole: Implementation, Connie Foster
TopSCHOLAR® Presentations and Reports
The presenter will suggest essential elements to consider as an institutional repository system is selected and implemented and offer practical guidelines and strategies for success. Naming a repository, consistency in metadata, types of committees needed, policies and much more will be covered. An exchange of ideas and questions are encouraged.
Engaging The Spirit 2007: Topscholar™: Creating Information Possibilities, Connie Foster
Engaging The Spirit 2007: Topscholar™: Creating Information Possibilities, Connie Foster
TopSCHOLAR® Presentations and Reports
TopSCHOLAR™ is “The Database of Research and Creative Activity of Western Kentucky University.” It offers permanency, durability, and accessibility for discovering and storing content, such as articles, theses, conference papers, working papers, creative writing, and many other intellectual efforts of the University. TopSCHOLAR™ is indexed by Google Scholar and other metadata indexers. Each “deposit” has a permanent URL TopSCHOLAR™ supplements and complements existing information resources, and offers a publishing and archival opportunity where none existed before at one central web site.
Topscholar Digital Research Repository@Wku, Mike Binder
Topscholar Digital Research Repository@Wku, Mike Binder
TopSCHOLAR® Presentations and Reports
This PowerPoint presentation was given at the Western Kentucky University’s Council of Academic Deans Research Retreat to familiarize the group with the concept of Institutional Repositories and to begin the first steps towards establishing one at WKU, to be called TopSCHOLAR™. Definitions, benefits, values, guarantees for success, and examples of content are included.