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Small School, Big Reach: Open Access Outreach On A Liberal Arts College Campus, Janelle L. Wertzberger Dec 2014

Small School, Big Reach: Open Access Outreach On A Liberal Arts College Campus, Janelle L. Wertzberger

All Musselman Library Staff Works

The liberal arts college environment provides opportunities for campus-wide engagement of open access issues that may differ from those at larger institutions. Because we support fewer campus authors, we are able to provide a high level of service. Librarians’ close connections with faculty and students allow us to move beyond articles and theses and solicit a wide range of scholarly and creative works to share in our repository. In addition, we’ve fostered conversations about open access, open textbooks, altmetrics, and copyright among faculty, staff, and students. This poster will present a snapshot of a variety of outreach and education strategies …


Small School, Big Reach: #11;Open Access Outreach On A Liberal Arts College Campus, Janelle L. Wertzberger Dec 2014

Small School, Big Reach: #11;Open Access Outreach On A Liberal Arts College Campus, Janelle L. Wertzberger

Janelle Wertzberger

The liberal arts college environment provides opportunities for campus-wide engagement of open access issues that may differ from those at larger institutions. Because we support fewer campus authors, we are able to provide a high level of service. Librarians’ close connections with faculty and students allow us to move beyond articles and theses and solicit a wide range of scholarly and creative works to share in our repository. In addition, we’ve fostered conversations about open access, open textbooks, altmetrics, and copyright among faculty, staff, and students. This poster will present a snapshot of a variety of outreach and education strategies …


Scholarworks Usage Report, 11-2014, Scholarworks Dec 2014

Scholarworks Usage Report, 11-2014, Scholarworks

ScholarWorks Reports

This report contains download and page view statistics for ScholarWorks, November 2014.


Scholarworks Usage Report, 12-2014, Scholarworks Dec 2014

Scholarworks Usage Report, 12-2014, Scholarworks

ScholarWorks Reports

This report contains download and page view statistics for ScholarWorks, December 2014.


What Does Your Repository Do? Measuring And Calculating Impact, Margaret Heller Nov 2014

What Does Your Repository Do? Measuring And Calculating Impact, Margaret Heller

University Libraries: Faculty Publications and Other Works

A multifaceted approach at understanding the impact of institutional repositories using both quantitative and qualitative processes, particularly with regards to alignment with institutional mission.


Scholarly Communications Committee Report On Activities 2013-14, Janelle Wertzberger Nov 2014

Scholarly Communications Committee Report On Activities 2013-14, Janelle Wertzberger

Janelle Wertzberger

2013-14 annual report for Musselman Library's Scholarly Communications Committee, including Gettysburg College's institutional repository, The Cupola: Scholarship at Gettysburg College. Covers June 2013-May 2014.


The Cupola Infographic (2014), Janelle Wertzberger Nov 2014

The Cupola Infographic (2014), Janelle Wertzberger

Janelle Wertzberger

This infographic displays key facts and figures about Gettysburg College's institutional repository, The Cupola: Scholarship at Gettysburg College, as of 5/31/14 (end of fiscal year).


Scholarworks Usage Report, 10-2014, Scholarworks Nov 2014

Scholarworks Usage Report, 10-2014, Scholarworks

ScholarWorks Reports

This report contains download and page view statistics for ScholarWorks, October 2014.


Open Access And The Institutional Repository, Julia Lovett, Andrée Rathemacher Oct 2014

Open Access And The Institutional Repository, Julia Lovett, Andrée Rathemacher

Technical Services Department Faculty Publications

Over the past year, the University of Rhode Island (URI) has taken some steps towards shifting the default to Open Access for both faculty scholarship and student work. First and foremost, in March 2013, the URI Faculty Senate passed a Harvard-style Open Access mandate. And in February 2013, the Library and the Graduate School began making electronic dissertations and theses openly available through URI’s institutional repository. In this presentation, we will define Open Access policies and discuss why they are important. We will give an overview of our experiences with Open Access advocacy, implementation of policies, and next steps.


Migrating Faculty Publications From A Department Website To An Institutional Repository, Meaghan Corbett, Christopher D. Cook Oct 2014

Migrating Faculty Publications From A Department Website To An Institutional Repository, Meaghan Corbett, Christopher D. Cook

Himmelfarb Library Faculty Posters and Presentations

In October 2013, George Washington University's School of Public Health and Health Services (now the Milken Institute School of Public Health) approached the Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library about moving a large collection of Health Policy Department publications and citations from the school's website into the Health Sciences Research Commons (HSRC) institutional repository. After a project planning meeting with the school's representative, library staff began uploading documents and citations from the collection. Working from a spreadsheet and file set provided by the school, library staff processed 604 citations (including 319 full-text files) dating back to 1996. Despite some problem files and …


Scholarworks Usage Report, 09-2014, Scholarworks Sep 2014

Scholarworks Usage Report, 09-2014, Scholarworks

ScholarWorks Reports

This report contains download and page view statistics for ScholarWorks, September 2014.


Digital Commons & Selectedworks: A Wac Presentation, Beverly Lysobey Sep 2014

Digital Commons & Selectedworks: A Wac Presentation, Beverly Lysobey

Librarian Publications

A presentation in the Ryan Matura Library sponsored by the Writing Across the Curriculum committee at Sacred Heart University.


Data Curation Is For Everyone! The Case For Master's And Baccalaureate Institutional Engagement With Data Curation, Yasmeen Shorish Sep 2014

Data Curation Is For Everyone! The Case For Master's And Baccalaureate Institutional Engagement With Data Curation, Yasmeen Shorish

Yasmeen Shorish

This article describes the fundamental challenges to data curation, how these challenges may be compounded for smaller institutions, and how data management is an essential and manageable component of data curation. Data curation is often discussed within the confines of large research universities. As a result, master's and baccalaureate institutions may be left with the impression that they cannot engage with data curation. However, by proactively engaging with faculty, libraries of all sizes can build closer relationships and help educate faculty on data documentation and organizational best practices. This article describes experiences from one master's comprehensive institution as it engages …


Scholarworks Usage Report, 08-2014, Scholarworks Aug 2014

Scholarworks Usage Report, 08-2014, Scholarworks

ScholarWorks Reports

This report contains download and page view statistics for ScholarWorks, August 2014.


The Cupola Infographic (2014), Janelle Wertzberger Aug 2014

The Cupola Infographic (2014), Janelle Wertzberger

All Musselman Library Staff Works

This infographic displays key facts and figures about Gettysburg College's institutional repository, The Cupola: Scholarship at Gettysburg College, as of 5/31/14 (end of fiscal year).


Scholarworks Usage Report, 07-2014, Scholarworks Jul 2014

Scholarworks Usage Report, 07-2014, Scholarworks

ScholarWorks Reports

This report contains download and page view statistics for ScholarWorks, July 2014.


Student Scholarship: A Promising Engagement Strategy For Growing An Institutional Repository, M Ryan Hess Jul 2014

Student Scholarship: A Promising Engagement Strategy For Growing An Institutional Repository, M Ryan Hess

M Ryan Hess

DePaul University has recently changed its strategy for growing its institutional repository, promoting opportunities for publishing student scholarship. Unlike with faculty works, student scholarship does not evoke strong opinions about copyright and future publishing risks. Instead, it is seen both as a promotional tool for a department or faculty member and as a win for students. Our successes have included student translations of historical French documents held in our library, a student Law journal, a student Nursing journal, student GIS maps and oral histories of artists. The DePaul library will share its experiences with this strategy so that others can …


Preserving Content From Your Institutional Repository, Wendy C. Robertson, Carol Ann Borchert Jul 2014

Preserving Content From Your Institutional Repository, Wendy C. Robertson, Carol Ann Borchert

Wendy C Robertson

Between institutional repositories and hosting journals, many libraries are becoming responsible for scholarly content in new ways. While portable document formats (PDFs)are the most common formats today, the unique, local, serial content could be in variety of formats. These items might be digitized text, born digital text, audio, video, or images, or multimedia.. This paper discusses formats that will remain accessible through time (PDF/A, txt, xml) so that contents are not locked into proprietary formats. It will also discuss options for backing up items and associated metadata, including simple back-ups, off-site storage of files, Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe …


Scholarworks Usage Report, 06-2014, Scholarworks Jun 2014

Scholarworks Usage Report, 06-2014, Scholarworks

ScholarWorks Reports

This report contains download and page view statistics for ScholarWorks, June 2014.


The Stick Or The Carrot? An Approach To Open Access, Randi Tyse Eriksen, Jorunn Alstad Jun 2014

The Stick Or The Carrot? An Approach To Open Access, Randi Tyse Eriksen, Jorunn Alstad

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

In Norway, as internationally, Open Access (OA) policy states that officially funded research should be open to the public. This paper touches upon the EU’s new OA-initiative (Horizon 2020) before giving a short description of the guidelines from the Norwegian Government and the National Research Council of Norway, as well as NTNU’s and other Norwegian Universities’ OA policies. Through the Norwegian CRIStin database, which was established in 2010, Norway has a national system for registration of academic publishing. Reporting these and other data concerning academic activities to the government partially dictates funding. Together with institutional archives for realizing green OA …


Growing Ink: The Curious Case Of The Institutional Repository At Smu, Yeo, Pin Pin Jun 2014

Growing Ink: The Curious Case Of The Institutional Repository At Smu, Yeo, Pin Pin

Research Collection Library

InK, the institutional repository of the Singapore Management University (SMU) was officially launched in January 2011 with 7,000 metadata records for SMU research publications, only 600 of which was full text. The Library uses a variety of strategies to increase the number of full text papers and to raise awareness about Open Access amongst the faculty. SMU’s Open Access policy was approved by the University’s Research Council and promulgated by the Vice-Provost, Research to the community a year ago. The Library pulls the data from the University’s Research Publications System, an in-house platform, to capture faculty publications. This ensures that …


Scholarly Communications Committee Report On Activities 2013-14, Janelle Wertzberger Jun 2014

Scholarly Communications Committee Report On Activities 2013-14, Janelle Wertzberger

All Musselman Library Staff Works

2013-14 annual report for Musselman Library's Scholarly Communications Committee, including Gettysburg College's institutional repository, The Cupola: Scholarship at Gettysburg College. Covers June 2013-May 2014.


Scholarworks Usage Report, 05-2014, Scholarworks May 2014

Scholarworks Usage Report, 05-2014, Scholarworks

ScholarWorks Reports

This report contains download and page view statistics for ScholarWorks, May 2014.


Cleared For Deposit! Tool For Reviewing Faculty Cv's And Depositing Articles In An Institutional Repository, Graham Hukill May 2014

Cleared For Deposit! Tool For Reviewing Faculty Cv's And Depositing Articles In An Institutional Repository, Graham Hukill

Library Scholarly Publications

This poster will focus on a tool we have made to streamline the process of reviewing faculty publications, most often via their CV, for deposit and self-archiving in a Institutional Repository. The tool uses an HTML/CSS webpage for the front-end, a MySQL backend, and pulls in publisher self-archiving policies via the SHERPA/RoMEO API.

Many libraries are beginning to review faculty CVs for publications that can be deposited in their Open Access Institutional Repository. SHERPA/RoMEO, "...a searchable database of publisher's policies regarding the self- archiving of journal articles on the web and in Open Access repositories," is primarily how librarians decide …


Opportunities Beyond Electronic Resource Management: An Extension Of The Core Competencies For Electronic Resources Librarians To Digital Scholarship And Scholarly Communications, Angela Dresselhaus May 2014

Opportunities Beyond Electronic Resource Management: An Extension Of The Core Competencies For Electronic Resources Librarians To Digital Scholarship And Scholarly Communications, Angela Dresselhaus

Angela Dresselhaus

This presentation will provide an overview of current topics in digital scholarship and scholarly communications and draw connections between these new areas and the traditional skill sets of acquisitions and electronic resources employees. Commonalities between the skills outlined in the Core Competencies for Electronic Resources Librarians and those needed for success in digital scholarship and scholarly communications will form the basis of the presenter's recommendations for staff involvement in digital scholarship and scholarly communications. #11;#11;An inventory of skills and talents among acquisitions staff will provide insight into the best ways to leverage existing human resources for the expansion of acquisitions …


Scholarworks Usage Report, 04-2014, Scholarworks Apr 2014

Scholarworks Usage Report, 04-2014, Scholarworks

ScholarWorks Reports

This report contains download and page view statistics for ScholarWorks, April 2014.


Supplemental Material For A Primer On How To Launch An Institutional Repository Successfully., Gretchen Rae Beach, Larry Sheret, Thomas L. Walker Ii, Jingping Zhang Apr 2014

Supplemental Material For A Primer On How To Launch An Institutional Repository Successfully., Gretchen Rae Beach, Larry Sheret, Thomas L. Walker Ii, Jingping Zhang

Larry Sheret

This is a case study of the implementation of an institutional repository (IR). It is written for academic librarians who are looking for a primer on how to create an IR for their campus. Based upon Marshall University’s research and experience with this process, we present the essential elements needed to construct an institutional repository. Policies and procedures are provided that offer guidelines and checklists to follow for a successful ramp up and launch. A discussion about the value of an IR is followed by ways to secure funding and to implement a basic system that can be scaled up …


Supplemental Material For A Primer On How To Launch An Institutional Repository Successfully., Gretchen Rae Beach, Larry Sheret, Thomas L. Walker Ii, Jingping Zhang Apr 2014

Supplemental Material For A Primer On How To Launch An Institutional Repository Successfully., Gretchen Rae Beach, Larry Sheret, Thomas L. Walker Ii, Jingping Zhang

Thomas Walker

This is a case study of the implementation of an institutional repository (IR). It is written for academic librarians who are looking for a primer on how to create an IR for their campus. Based upon Marshall University’s research and experience with this process, we present the essential elements needed to construct an institutional repository. Policies and procedures are provided that offer guidelines and checklists to follow for a successful ramp up and launch. A discussion about the value of an IR is followed by ways to secure funding and to implement a basic system that can be scaled up …


Supplemental Material For A Primer On How To Launch An Institutional Repository Successfully., Gretchen Rae Beach, Larry Sheret, Thomas L. Walker Ii, Jingping Zhang Apr 2014

Supplemental Material For A Primer On How To Launch An Institutional Repository Successfully., Gretchen Rae Beach, Larry Sheret, Thomas L. Walker Ii, Jingping Zhang

Jingping Zhang

This is a case study of the implementation of an institutional repository (IR). It is written for academic librarians who are looking for a primer on how to create an IR for their campus. Based upon Marshall University’s research and experience with this process, we present the essential elements needed to construct an institutional repository. Policies and procedures are provided that offer guidelines and checklists to follow for a successful ramp up and launch. A discussion about the value of an IR is followed by ways to secure funding and to implement a basic system that can be scaled up …


Supplemental Material For A Primer On How To Launch An Institutional Repository Successfully., Gretchen Rae Beach, Larry Sheret, Thomas L. Walker Ii, Jingping Zhang Apr 2014

Supplemental Material For A Primer On How To Launch An Institutional Repository Successfully., Gretchen Rae Beach, Larry Sheret, Thomas L. Walker Ii, Jingping Zhang

Gretchen Rae Beach

This is a case study of the implementation of an institutional repository (IR). It is written for academic librarians who are looking for a primer on how to create an IR for their campus. Based upon Marshall University’s research and experience with this process, we present the essential elements needed to construct an institutional repository. Policies and procedures are provided that offer guidelines and checklists to follow for a successful ramp up and launch. A discussion about the value of an IR is followed by ways to secure funding and to implement a basic system that can be scaled up …