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Promote Campus Scholarship, Barbara Potts
Promote Campus Scholarship, Barbara Potts
Faculty Publications and Presentations
Promoting the scholarship created on your campus is imperative to recruitment, enrollment, and reputation. If you are thinking of starting a scholarly publishing program, have a program, or are interested in hearing how scholarly publishing works, come to our round-table to join in the conversation. Topics for discussion will include: 1. Faculty buy in, partnering with other departments on campus, or starting a yearly research symposia, 2. Copyright, posting journal articles or assisting professors with a portfolio of their work and 3. Showcasing student work. Share what has worked on your campus and what has not. All are welcome to …
Enhancing Discoverability: How To Describe Digitalcommons Content For Harvest Into Cultural Heritage Institutions, Andrew Wesolek, Joshua Morgan
Enhancing Discoverability: How To Describe Digitalcommons Content For Harvest Into Cultural Heritage Institutions, Andrew Wesolek, Joshua Morgan
Presentations
Both institutional repositories and cultural heritage institutions have broadly defined collection development policies. As such, many collections could appropriately reside in both. However, at many institutions digital libraries that support cultural heritage collections are often supported by CONTENTdm, while institutional repository initiatives are supported by another platform--in Clemson's case, DigitalCommons. Librarians at Clemson University identified several key collections that fit both the scope of its institutional repository and digital library. In order to leverage the "google-ability" of the institutional repository with the discoverability that comes with inclusion in the DPLA, we embarked on a process to describe our collection and …
A Small Library Launches A Publishing Program, Janelle L. Wertzberger
A Small Library Launches A Publishing Program, Janelle L. Wertzberger
All Musselman Library Staff Works
Panel title: Staffing a Library Publishing Program: The Whos, Hows, and Whens
Panel abstract: This session aims to address one of the most frequently raised concerns about library-led publishing: how to plan for staffing this new endeavor? The panel will discuss two inflection points in staff planning for library publishing: what it takes to get started (for a library that is just beginning to think about publishing), and what it takes to grow (for a library that has a few years of experience and wants to do more). It will also shed light on one of the least understood, and …
What Is "Library Publishing" At A Liberal Arts College?, Janelle L. Wertzberger
What Is "Library Publishing" At A Liberal Arts College?, Janelle L. Wertzberger
All Musselman Library Staff Works
Panel title
Cultivating Sustainable Library Publishing Services: Perspectives from a Range of Academic Libraries
Discover how three institutions - a liberal arts college, a comprehensive university, and a research university - provide library-led publishing services to their campuses. The panelists will share how their respective institutions have developed and aligned policies, infrastructure, staffing, outreach, and strategic partnerships in order to provide sustainable publishing services. This presentation will also explore the risks and rewards in establishing innovative library publishing services in ways that support institutional missions.
Adr Presentation: Open Access, Joanne Paterson
Adr Presentation: Open Access, Joanne Paterson
Western Libraries Presentations
Publishing in an open access repository gives your research global reach. Wide dissemination of your work can mean more citations and more impact. Getting your scholarly work published is as easy as uploading a paper to a website. Find out how Scholarship@Western can benefit you and how it can help you meet the requirements of funding agencies for open access.
Scholarship@Western & Open Access: What's In It For Me?, Joanne Paterson
Scholarship@Western & Open Access: What's In It For Me?, Joanne Paterson
Western Libraries Presentations
Publishing in an open access repository gives your research global reach. Wide dissemination of your work can mean more citations and more impact. Getting your scholarly work published is as easy as uploading a paper to a website. Find out how Scholarship@Western can benefit you and how it can help you meet the requirements of funding agencies for open access.
Chapter One: A Small College Library Joins The Open Access Movement, Janelle L. Wertzberger
Chapter One: A Small College Library Joins The Open Access Movement, Janelle L. Wertzberger
All Musselman Library Staff Works
The open access movement has been going strong for over a decade. Large research universities tend to have the oldest and most active programs. Their work is inspiring, but it can be challenging for librarians at smaller institutions to identify ways to contribute to the movement.
Gettysburg College launched its institutional repository in 2012. This presentation tells how we got started.
Launching An Institutional Repository And Library Publishing Platform With Digital Commons, Zach Coble, Carolyn Sautter, Janelle L. Wertzberger
Launching An Institutional Repository And Library Publishing Platform With Digital Commons, Zach Coble, Carolyn Sautter, Janelle L. Wertzberger
All Musselman Library Staff Works
Presentation given at Pennsylvania Library Association on October 2, 2012.
Who Uses This Stuff, Anyway?, Andrew Wesolek
Who Uses This Stuff, Anyway?, Andrew Wesolek
Library Faculty & Staff Presentations
A great deal of the professional literature is devoted to developing content and faculty buy-in for institutional repositories. However, little is known about the end users of these repositories. This is unfortunate since great content is of little value if no one uses it and knowing more about users and their needs leads to more relevant content. So, we need to ask ourselves: "Who exactly is using this stuff, anyway?" Since 2010, Utah State University has begun surveying its IR users to answer this question. DigitalCommons@USU houses more than 26,000 documents with full-text downloads of over 800,000. With this much …
Take 10 For Trace, Linda Phillips, Margaret Casado
Take 10 For Trace, Linda Phillips, Margaret Casado
Other Library Publications and Works
These slides accompanied a ten-minute presentation introducing faculty to the capabilities of the campus digital showcase and archive, including mention of the library's digital peer-reviewed Newfound Press.
The Library As Publisher: Increasing Library Relevance Through Institutional Repository Services, Richard W. Clement
The Library As Publisher: Increasing Library Relevance Through Institutional Repository Services, Richard W. Clement
Library Faculty & Staff Presentations
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Beyond Research: Opencourseware In The Institutional Repository, Heather Leary, Brett E. Shelton, Marion Jensen
Beyond Research: Opencourseware In The Institutional Repository, Heather Leary, Brett E. Shelton, Marion Jensen
Library Faculty & Staff Presentations
Presentation given at the 2009 LITA National Forum in Salt Lake City, Utah on archiving OpenCourseWare in the Institutional Repository.
The main function of OpenCourseWare is to provide open access to collections of educational materials used in formal courses. The main function of an Institutional Repository is to collect, preserve, and disseminate intellectual output of an institution. Since OCW is a significant portion of the intellectual output of a university, archiving OCW in an institutions repository seems a perfect marriage of means and opportunity.
Integrating An Opencourseware And Institutional Repository, Heather Leary, Brett E. Shelton
Integrating An Opencourseware And Institutional Repository, Heather Leary, Brett E. Shelton
Library Faculty & Staff Presentations
This presentation was given at the 2009 Open Education Conference in Vancouver, BC. It shows how and why Utah State University chose to archive their OpenCourseWare. This was done in their Institutional Repository, DigitalCommons@USU. The presentation emphasizes the importance of the Open Education community to work with Librarians.
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.
Feeding The Fledgling Repository, Ann Koopman
Feeding The Fledgling Repository, Ann Koopman
Academic Commons and Scott Memorial Library Staff Papers and Presentations
If we build it, will they come? Whether intended for faculty papers, original journals, dissertations, or special collections, one of the challenges of building an institutional repository is recruiting appropriate content. This presentation addresses experiences at Thomas Jefferson University, along with pointers and strategies for successfully populating an institutional repository.
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.