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Collection Development Policy, Digital Commons Institutional Repository, University Of Nebraska–Lincoln Libraries, November 13, 2019, Sue Ann Gardner, Kathleen A. Johnson, Leslie Delserone, Erica Defrain
Collection Development Policy, Digital Commons Institutional Repository, University Of Nebraska–Lincoln Libraries, November 13, 2019, Sue Ann Gardner, Kathleen A. Johnson, Leslie Delserone, Erica Defrain
UNL Libraries: Collection Development Policies
Purpose of the UNL Digital Commons Institutional Repository
The UNL institutional repository (IR) comprises services that result in the stewardship and global online dissemination of content created and selected by UNL authors and affiliates. With the aim of contributing to the broader world of scholarship and facilitating discovery, the repository reflects the intellectual life of the institution.1 The IR drives a significant level of Web traffic to UNL. As such, the IR may serve as a promotional and marketing tool for authors, programs, and the university as a whole.
Purpose of the Collection Development Policy
This collection development policy is …
Case Study – A Call To Action: Migrating The Reveille From Contentdm To Digital Commons Poster, Mary Elizabeth Chance Mlis, Jennifer Sauer Mlis
Case Study – A Call To Action: Migrating The Reveille From Contentdm To Digital Commons Poster, Mary Elizabeth Chance Mlis, Jennifer Sauer Mlis
Forsyth Library Faculty Publications
This poster was presented at DC-HUG 2017 in Rolla, MO.
Forsyth Digital Collections presents their content on more than one digital collections platform. Since the acquisition of Digital Commons and the launch of the FHSU Scholars Repository in January 2016, there has been an institutional effort to determine which platform is best suited to displaying existing content. Beginning in 2009, the FHSU Reveille Yearbooks collection had been hosted in CONTENTdm. This collection suffered from issues relating to access and user experience. In 2014 additional effort was put into improving the collection though those efforts did not achieve the desired result. …
Case Study – A Call To Action: Migrating The Reveille From Contentdm To Digital Commons, Mary Elizabeth Chance Mlis
Case Study – A Call To Action: Migrating The Reveille From Contentdm To Digital Commons, Mary Elizabeth Chance Mlis
Forsyth Library Faculty Publications
Forsyth Digital Collections presents their content on more than one digital collections platform. Since the acquisition of Digital Commons and the launch of the FHSU Scholars Repository in January 2016, there has been an institutional effort to determine which platform is best suited to displaying existing content. Beginning in 2009, the FHSU Reveille Yearbooks collection had been hosted in CONTENTdm. This collection suffered from issues relating to access and user experience. In 2014 additional effort was put into improving the collection though those efforts did not achieve the desired result. In the spring of 2017 it was determined that the …
Collection Development Policy, Digital Commons Institutional Repository, University Of Nebraska–Lincoln Libraries, Sue Ann Gardner, Paul Royster, Linnea Fredrickson, Kathleen A. Johnson, Leslie M. Delserone, Erica Defrain
Collection Development Policy, Digital Commons Institutional Repository, University Of Nebraska–Lincoln Libraries, Sue Ann Gardner, Paul Royster, Linnea Fredrickson, Kathleen A. Johnson, Leslie M. Delserone, Erica Defrain
UNL Libraries: Collection Development Policies
Purpose of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Digital Commons Institutional Repository Collection Development Policy
This collection development policy is intended to provide guidance for content selection that anticipates and meets the needs of the communities of the University of Nebraska–Lincoln (UNL). It directly relates to the library's vision statement and defines the scope and standards that guide the services that generate the collection.
Purpose of the UNL Digital Commons Institutional Repository
The UNL institutional repository (IR) comprises services that result in the stewardship and global online dissemination of content created and selected by UNL authors and affiliates. With the aim of …
Creating Green Open Access To Institutional Scholarship Using Digital Commons, Deborah L. White, Yumi Ohira
Creating Green Open Access To Institutional Scholarship Using Digital Commons, Deborah L. White, Yumi Ohira
Nebraska Library Association: Conferences
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, …
Creating Green Open Access To Institutional Scholarship Using Digital Commons, Deborah L. White, Yumi Ohira
Creating Green Open Access To Institutional Scholarship Using Digital Commons, Deborah L. White, Yumi Ohira
Nebraska Library Association: Conferences
The digital repository serves as a Green Open Access solution to globally share scholarship produced by the university community. Both Pittsburg State University (PSU) and Fort Hays State University (FHSU) previously used CONTENTdm (CDM) as their primary digital repository. In 2015, both PSU and FHSU purchased and launched Bepress Digital Commons (DC), a more robust repository. Considering global discoverability, unlimited storage, efficient technical support, and the ability to share a wide range of file formats in one interface, Digital Commons by Bepress is the most reliable for small institutions.
This paper is based on the presentation delivered by PSU and …
Paths To Repository Success At Any Stage, Kimberly J. Sawtelle
Paths To Repository Success At Any Stage, Kimberly J. Sawtelle
Library Staff Publications
DigitalCommons@UMaine launched as the University of Maine’s institutional repository in January 2012. Since that time, the collection has grown to over thirteen thousand (13,000) papers in more than seven hundred, sixty (760) disciplines; and has experienced over four hundred, ninety thousand (490,000) full-text downloads. This presentation discusses the framework for the success of DigitalCommons@UMaine as an institutional repository.