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What Is Consulting Services? Our Approach To Supporting The Needs Of The Scholarly Community, Allen Sprague

Digital Commons+ Great Lakes User Group

An outline of the thought and approach behind bepress's Consulting Services model.

Evaluating Scholarly Communication Services And Programs To Plan For Sustained Success, Jacklyn Rander, Matt Ruen

Digital Commons+ Great Lakes User Group

The scholarly communications program and institutional repository at Grand Valley State University began in 2008, and in its first seven years, grew rapidly. Our team, recently-expanded, now includes three full time positions, and through our repository we host open textbooks, open-access journals, and thousands of documents. Our initial growth was organic and opportunistic, which enabled this initiative to successfully take root in the University Libraries. The next challenge for our scholarly communications program is to make sure those early roots are strong and healthy, so that we can sustain our initial success through the next seven years and beyond.

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Pampering Uploaders: Easing The Metadata Upload Process, Craighton T. Hippenhammer

Digital Commons+ Great Lakes User Group

Impromptu Lightning Talk, listing five tips for configuring submission forms to ease the process of item upload for users.

Using Built-In Features, Stephanie Gaskins, Elizabeth Richardson

Digital Commons+ Great Lakes User Group

At Kent State, we work on Digital Commons all times of day so communication is important. We utilize many of bepress’s built-in features to facilitate this. Based on our conversations with other Digital Commons institutional repository managers, many of Digital Commons’ built-in features are not used or not used to their fullest potential. We are moving toward taking full advantage of built-in features in our workflow and hope to push beyond what is available and to suggest enhancements from bepress. We aim to use built-in features for training, internal communication within our team, external communication with authors and rights holders, …

"Make It Work": Patching Together A New Ir Workflow To Sustain Growth, Teresa Schultz

Digital Commons+ Great Lakes User Group

Growing an institutional repository at a small university library with limited resources brings a number of challenges, and VU is no different. The Christopher Center Library has no dedicated employees who work solely with its IR, ValpoScholar, and instead relies on a mix of interns and other employees to create records and upload works in their spare time. VU has had some success in finding faculty works for ValpoScholar through self-submissions for an annual celebration of faculty research and by searching databases but wanted to see if there was still a better way. In Fall 2014, the library began to …

How To, And How Not To Recover And Preserve Two Orphan Journals: A Case Study Of The Journal Of Communication Therapy And Insight And Hindsight, Paul Blobaum

Digital Commons+ Great Lakes User Group

The OPUS repository at Governors State University, University Park IL was launched in May, 2014. The Repository replaces Dspace. Materials in the University Archives were reviewed for possible candidates for digitization and utilization of the Digital Commons Journal series structures for optimal showcasing of archived content of these defunct journals that originated at the University. Copies of the Journal of Communication Therapy, and Insight and Hindsight, journal were discovered in the University Archives, and identified for recovery of the publication's opus (filling in missing issues), digitization, and archival preservation. A collaborative effort with Texas State University library was implemented to …

Academic Publishing Folklore: Finding A Unified Narrative For Open Access, Dave Johnston

Digital Commons+ Great Lakes User Group

There is often no systematic means by which information about open access and the scholarly publishing landscape is shared between faculty, students and administrators and the particular concerns can vary considerably from discipline to discipline. The patchwork of beliefs about open access and publishing on our campuses bears more similarity to a body of folklore, an academic publishing folklore. Like all folklore, it can contain elements of both misinformation and truth.

Working as a librarian in a scholarly communications role brings with it the responsibility of conveying the importance of open access to faculty members, students and administrators in order …

An Integrated Digital Services Model For Institutional Repositories, M Ryan Hess

Digital Commons+ Great Lakes User Group

DePaul University Library created a suite of digital services to support faculty projects which addressed common hurdles to repository adoption. In a faculty survey we ran in the fall of 2014, faculty reported an unawareness of the repository, uncertainty of how they might use it. However, they also reported that they placed value on the repository services we presented to them and a desire to hear more information. Anecdotally, we also heard the common refrain that faculty are too busy and too technologically challenged to engage with the repository on their own. In response, we defined several interrelated services to …