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Creating Open Access To Institutional Scholarship Using Digital Commons, Deborah L. White, Yumi Ohira
Creating Open Access To Institutional Scholarship Using Digital Commons, Deborah L. White, Yumi Ohira
Criss Library Faculty Proceedings & Presentations
Has your institution mandated an Institutional Repository for open access? Do you feel intimidated by working with two digital repositories simultaneously? We will share our success and experience of working with two repositories with a small staff at two small universities in rural Kansas. The repository serves as a Green Open Access solution to globally share. Both Pittsburg State University (PSU) and Fort Hays State University (FHSU) currently use CONTENTdm (CDM) as their primary digital repository. In 2015 both PSU and FHSU purchased and launched BePress Digital Commons (DC), a more robust repository. If you see global discoverablility, unlimited storage, …
Building An Institutional Repository: Managing Faculty Publication And Author Rights Workflow In The Wyoming Scholars Repository, Kelly Visnak, Yumi Ohira
Building An Institutional Repository: Managing Faculty Publication And Author Rights Workflow In The Wyoming Scholars Repository, Kelly Visnak, Yumi Ohira
Criss Library Faculty Proceedings & Presentations
Wyoming Scholar’s Repository (WySR), is an initiative by the University of Wyoming Libraries to support our scholars and provide a Green Open Access solution. WySR (http://repository.uwyo.edu/) disseminates a wide variety of scholarship, including faculty papers, student scholarship, conference proceedings, and journals. The Digital Collections office and the Scholarly Communication Librarian have been implementing and managing WySR by searching our purchased electronic materials, relying on the SHERPA/RoMEO database of publisher policies, and communicating with faculty to seek permissions to bring their scholarly publications into the repository. This presentation will discuss the differences among four colleges at the University of Wyoming: College …
Building Institutional Repositories: Emerging Challenges, Yumi Ohira
Building Institutional Repositories: Emerging Challenges, Yumi Ohira
Criss Library Faculty Proceedings & Presentations
This presentation will discuss the benefits and challenges associated with Institutional Repository (IR) initiatives and development, while sharing our experiences from WySR (Wyoming Scholar’s Repository). Our institutional repository, WySR, will be used as a case study to illustrate particular difficulties in obtaining author versions of publications; the quality of open access research; and technical limitations.