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Selectedworks And Digital Commons: An Ideal Partnership, Tim Tamminga
Selectedworks And Digital Commons: An Ideal Partnership, Tim Tamminga
Tim Tamminga
SelectedWorks can serve as an integral part of your Digital Commons repository by providing each faculty member with a well-designed site for showcasing their work. Topics include: How schools are successfully providing SelectedWorks as a service to faculty How faculty are benefiting from SelectedWorks How libraries are using SelectedWorks to harvest into Digital Commons
So What Is Digital Commons? A Presentation During Ala Midwinter 2011, Tim Tamminga
So What Is Digital Commons? A Presentation During Ala Midwinter 2011, Tim Tamminga
Tim Tamminga
This presentation followed Paul Royster's presentation titled "The Institutional Repository as a Tool for Librarians ." It was intended to show how schools are using Digital Commons to store and showcase a variety of content: digital collections, student research (e.g., theses and dissertations), institutional and community materials, scholarly publishing (journals and monographs), events such as conferences, and articles (pre- and postprint).
Institutional Repositories For Medical Schools, Tim Tamminga
Institutional Repositories For Medical Schools, Tim Tamminga
Tim Tamminga
The presentation explores why a medical school or health sciences organization ought to implement an Institutional Repository. The presentation also describes what some medical school are doing with their repositories. This presentation with audio can be seen on Vimeo at http://vimeo.com/15610845
Catching The Wave: Academic Library As Scholarly Publisher, Tim Tamminga
Catching The Wave: Academic Library As Scholarly Publisher, Tim Tamminga
Tim Tamminga
The presentation covers the following topics: - Scholarly journal publishing: an environmental scan - A glimpse at how a publishing system works - Communities within the School who need publishing services and the publishing possibilities - Why should the library provide publishing services?
New And Alternative Directions In Scholarly Publishing: The Berkeley Electronic Press Experience, Tim Tamminga
New And Alternative Directions In Scholarly Publishing: The Berkeley Electronic Press Experience, Tim Tamminga
Tim Tamminga
Berkeley Electronic Press (bepress) was formed as an alternative to commercial scholarly publishing. The presentation examines bepress's guest access to its electronic journals, and examples of universities that are using bepress's Digital Commons to launch their own scholarly peer-reviewed electronic journals and series. The presentation also examines how scholarly publishing can support teaching faculty as well as research faculty.
Digital Commons: Publishing Undergraduate Student Research, Tim Tamminga
Digital Commons: Publishing Undergraduate Student Research, Tim Tamminga
Tim Tamminga
An institutional repository can be used to showcase undergraduate scholarship in a number of ways. These examples suggest that teaching schools can use Digital Commons as effectively as research universities.
Digital Commons: Examples Of Successful Repositories, Tim Tamminga
Digital Commons: Examples Of Successful Repositories, Tim Tamminga
Tim Tamminga
Digital Commons is used by over 120 institutions around the world. This presentation explores how these institutions are using Digital Commons to extend their services to faculty, researchers, departments and the institution.
The Institutional Repository And The Institution’S Mission, Tim Tamminga
The Institutional Repository And The Institution’S Mission, Tim Tamminga
Tim Tamminga
The presentation briefly looks at how libraries originally presented IRs. These approaches tended to fail. However, when the IR is aligned with the mission of the school, the odds of success are much higher. Libraries need a strategic approach to selling the value of the IR to the Provost and Deans
Combining Scholarly Publishing And Institutional Repositories, Tim Tamminga
Combining Scholarly Publishing And Institutional Repositories, Tim Tamminga
Tim Tamminga
Scholarly publishing and Institutional Repositories work well together. Examples of publishing at various universities are shown in this presentation.
Issues With Scholarly Publishing, Tim Tamminga
Issues With Scholarly Publishing, Tim Tamminga
Tim Tamminga
Universities are increasingly self-publishing scholarly research through formal journals or other forms of publishing. A parallel trend is to include or actually use the IR as the publishing platform. This presentation shows examples of how self-publishing and IRs can work well together.