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Ann Connolly

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Introduction And Opening Remarks, Ann Connolly Jul 2015

Introduction And Opening Remarks, Ann Connolly

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The Role Of Irs In Open Access, Ann Connolly Jul 2015

The Role Of Irs In Open Access, Ann Connolly

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Role Of Institutional Repositories In The Open Access Movement, Ann Connolly Jul 2015

Role Of Institutional Repositories In The Open Access Movement, Ann Connolly

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Ann Connolly discusses the role of institutional repositories in open access during the Wright State University/Cleveland State University Joint Open Access Symposium.

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How Am I Doing? A Framework For Ir Benchmarking, Ann Connolly Apr 2015

How Am I Doing? A Framework For Ir Benchmarking, Ann Connolly

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A number of new rubrics purport to rank repositories against each other, as if to file them into a neat line from most to least successful. What are these rubrics actually measuring, though, and do they reflect how the institutional repository (IR) community measures its own success? With nearly 400 repositories as a sample group, we looked at how the IR community typically measures progress and compared that with three different ranking systems to see how they matched up. The results suggest that we need a new, platform-agnostic framework that allows institutions to measure themselves against their own unique missions …

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Library-Led Publishing Data & Benchmarks: Journal Data Collected From The Digital Commons Platform, Casey Busher, Irene Kamotsky, Ann Taylor May 2014

Library-Led Publishing Data & Benchmarks: Journal Data Collected From The Digital Commons Platform, Casey Busher, Irene Kamotsky, Ann Taylor

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The Digital Commons community launched 156 journals in 2013, putting the total number of journals published across all Digital Commons repositories at almost 700, including law reviews. These numbers speak to the success of library-led publishing efforts, and there is much more to discover by exploring the journals’ publishing history and performance data in more detail. This poster presents detailed data from across all journals hosted on Digital Commons. We show how publishing rates and readership vary within the community and how these trends can be used to derive target activity levels for new journals. We also look at publishing …

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