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What Does Your Repository Do?: Understanding And Calculating Impact, Margaret Heller
What Does Your Repository Do?: Understanding And Calculating Impact, Margaret Heller
University Libraries: Faculty Publications and Other Works
Librarians working in scholarly communications need to understand how to calculate and explain how including work in a repository affects its impact. This presentation describes the current state of research and practice into metrics for repositories including traditional metrics and newer alternative metrics, and some preliminary results of a research study assessing the usage and impact of a Digital Commons repository.
A Digital Repository At Loyola University Chicago, Eben English
A Digital Repository At Loyola University Chicago, Eben English
University Libraries: Faculty Publications and Other Works
Loyola University Libraries propose to develop a suite of services, systems, and online tools for the purpose of collecting, storing, organizing, and providing access to digital assets produced by Loyola University related to research, teaching, and learning. Functioning collectively as a “digital repository,” these initiatives will work in concert to facilitate a wide range of scholarly and archival activities, including content creation, collaboration, resource sharing, author rights management, digitization, preservation, and access by a global academic audience. This open-access repository will provide for increased discoverability, visibility and access to scholarship created at Loyola, and support the management and long-term preservation …