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Lessons Learned: Developing A Sustainable Publishing Program, Sarah Beaubien
Lessons Learned: Developing A Sustainable Publishing Program, Sarah Beaubien
Digital Commons+ Great Lakes User Group Annual Meeting
As the scholarly communication landscape continues to evolve, demand for innovative publishing services and emerging models of dissemination is increasing. In response, more academic libraries are taking on the role of publisher, and are providing a variety of library-led publishing services. What are the risks and rewards in establishing a library publishing program? How can we work toward the development of sustainable publishing services that will serve our campuses well into the future, and that will adapt with changing scholarly practices? / / At Grand Valley State University, our journal and open access textbook publishing has grown significantly in the …
Digital Commons: A Community On The Move!, Dave Stout, Jessica Robles
Digital Commons: A Community On The Move!, Dave Stout, Jessica Robles
Digital Commons+ Great Lakes User Group Annual Meeting
Digital Commons users are among the most active and successful communities taking on the challenges of deploying scholarly communication and repository-based services. Bepress is thrilled to partner with the community and help drive success in the local campus community. Dave and Jessica will provide a brief update about projects across the community, some statistics, and a look at some recent and upcoming enhancements to Digital Commons.
Saving Time In The Long-Run: A New Workflow For Thesis Submissions, Emily Stenberg
Saving Time In The Long-Run: A New Workflow For Thesis Submissions, Emily Stenberg
Digital Commons+ Great Lakes User Group Annual Meeting
In January 2014, representatives from the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences and University Libraries at Washington University agreed to move the master's thesis submission process from a local, electronic form directly to the university's repository Open Scholarship, which is supported by Digital Commons. While the reasons for this change included streamlining the process for both students and administrators, making this decision ended up being the easiest part of the process, which took close to six months for repository staff to fully implement. Around the same time, the Graduate School of Art began requiring its master's students to post their …
What Does Your Repository Do?: Understanding And Calculating Impact, Margaret Heller
What Does Your Repository Do?: Understanding And Calculating Impact, Margaret Heller
Digital Commons+ Great Lakes User Group Annual Meeting
Librarians working in scholarly communications need to understand how to calculate and explain how including work in a repository affects its impact. This presentation describes the current state of research and practice into metrics for repositories including traditional metrics and newer alternative metrics, and some preliminary results of a research study assessing the usage and impact of a Digital Commons repository.