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Scholarly Communication

2016

Institutional Repository

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Small But Mighty: Launching A Successful Scholarly Communications Initiative With Limited Resources, Michael Pujals Nov 2016

Small But Mighty: Launching A Successful Scholarly Communications Initiative With Limited Resources, Michael Pujals

Collected Faculty and Staff Scholarship

Many small schools worry that they don’t have the resources to launch and run a successful institutional repository initiative. It might come as a surprise that their very smallness comes with sizable advantages. At Dominican University of California, Michael Pujals, Scholarly Communications Librarian, has identified and successfully drawn on these advantages to build a thriving initiative in a short amount of time, including offering services for conference and journal hosting, thesis and capstone publication, and individual scholar pages for faculty members.

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Seeding Your Institutional Repository Community, Helena Marvin Oct 2016

Seeding Your Institutional Repository Community, Helena Marvin

Helena Marvin

The University of Missouri-St. Louis started their own Institutional Repository in January of this year. The soil has been tilled and seeds have been found. In this talk the Institutional Repository will be understood as a community garden. Find out how the planting and growing is going in this informative presentation. Identifying stakeholders: who digs, where is the water and what pests have been identified. Tips, tricks and things to avoid when cultivating a brand new IR garden. All this from someone freshly working the land.

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Dominican Scholar: Year Two: A Growing Repository: Annual Report To The Vice President Of Academic Affairs Academic Year 2015 - 2016, Michael Pujals Sep 2016

Dominican Scholar: Year Two: A Growing Repository: Annual Report To The Vice President Of Academic Affairs Academic Year 2015 - 2016, Michael Pujals

Collected Faculty and Staff Scholarship

The second year report on the progress and growth of Dominican Scholar, the institutional repository for Dominican University of California. The report discusses repository successes, areas for improvement, and areas for growth.

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If You Build It, Will They Come? Collateral Benefits Of Changing Strategies To Facilitate Faculty Participation In A Campus Ir, Lindsay Van Berkom, Elaine M. Lasda Bergman Apr 2016

If You Build It, Will They Come? Collateral Benefits Of Changing Strategies To Facilitate Faculty Participation In A Campus Ir, Lindsay Van Berkom, Elaine M. Lasda Bergman

University Libraries Faculty Scholarship

In October, 2014, the University at Albany Libraries launched Scholars Archive (SA), the University’s Institutional Repository (IR). Our first year of trial and error generated mixed results and low participation by non-library faculty. In year two, we redeveloped our strategy to yield benefits beyond simply increasing repository content. The new approach has three prongs: targeting outreach to deans, department heads and campus wide meetings instead of targeting to individual faculty members; second, we now provide a “full service” model for submitting content instead of merely mediating a “self-service” workflow model; third, we strategically highlight the IR platform’s available metrics to …

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