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Au Courant - October 2011, Barbara Tuck
Au Courant - October 2011, Barbara Tuck
Au Courant
Newsletter of the Thomas G. Carpenter Library
Digitalcommons@University Of Rhode Island Statistics 2010-2011, Andree J. Rathemacher
Digitalcommons@University Of Rhode Island Statistics 2010-2011, Andree J. Rathemacher
Technical Services Reports and Statistics
Statistics on the total number of full text downloads from the DigitalCommons@University of Rhode Island institutional repository for 2010-2011. Data are provided monthly on the number of full text downloads by collection and document, and on the number of referrals by domain and country. Dissertations are included in the statistics. Digital Commons statistics are COUNTER-compliant, with downloads from robots and automated processes filtered out.
Digital Commons As An Educational Tool, John Kresten Jesperesen
Digital Commons As An Educational Tool, John Kresten Jesperesen
Faculty Publications
This paper explores the educational use of an Institutional Repository at Rhode Island College. The focus is on selected units of our College's Digital Commons and the students who have helped to make it a reality. The Chet Smolski Collection, comprising an Image Gallery and a table for Op-Ed texts, is joined by relational portals that are not yet operative but approaching partial functionality. We claim that there has been real educational benefit for the students by using them to help construct an IR. Our educational approach of letting students teach each other can be of value to other Colleges …
Roadmap To Success: Scholarly Communications At Wayne State University, Suzan A. Alteri, Jonathan Mcglone
Roadmap To Success: Scholarly Communications At Wayne State University, Suzan A. Alteri, Jonathan Mcglone
Library Scholarly Publications
Despite the role of libraries in the open access movement, many librarians still need education on differing viewpoints, the vocabulary, and initiatives surrounding the movement. Recently, Wayne State University Librarians formed a Scholarly Communications team to introduce open access and scholarly communication reform. This team took a leadership role in educating liaison librarians, providing campus-wide workshops on research dissemination, and creating special open access week programming. How this was accomplished, the positive outcomes and future opportunities generated by these collective efforts will be discussed.
Choosing And Using Digitalcommons@Wsu: Preserving Wayne State University's Scholarly Output, Jonathan Mcglone
Choosing And Using Digitalcommons@Wsu: Preserving Wayne State University's Scholarly Output, Jonathan Mcglone
Library Scholarly Publications
Presentation on Wayne State University's (WSU) open access repository, DigitalCommons@WSU. Shares WSU Library System's current approach to digital collections, and reflects upon its technologies and library services to aid in permanently archiving and disseminating research and scholarship produced at WSU.