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Building An Institutional Repository With Student Scholarship, Scott Bacon
Building An Institutional Repository With Student Scholarship, Scott Bacon
Library Faculty Publications
Student scholarship should be an integral part of any institutional repository, as it can showcase the important work that students do during their time at the institution. This chapter proposes that an initial focus on student scholarship can aid colleges and universities in building their institutional repositories quickly. This method of collection building can also help to quickly achieve buy-in from campus stakeholders. University administrators will like seeing strong initial usage numbers and can feel confident that the repository will be a good project to fund into the future. Faculty members will see a stable system in which they can …
Evaluating An Institutional Repository: A Case Study Of Singapore Management University, Pin Pin Yeo
Evaluating An Institutional Repository: A Case Study Of Singapore Management University, Pin Pin Yeo
Research Collection Library
An institutional repository (IR) was launched in 2010 for a university in Singapore. The motivations of setting up an IR were to dissemination the research output through open access, to promote the university and researchers, and to help increase their research impact. Some quantitative and qualitative performance indicators were selected and used to measure the success of the IR. For the review and the performance indicators, the data used came from the IR at SMU, interviews with faculty members, and a study of a set of journal articles available in the IR to test a hypothesis. The results of the …
Institutional Repositories And Library Services In Nigerian Universities, Godwin Otu
Institutional Repositories And Library Services In Nigerian Universities, Godwin Otu
Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)
This study examines the value and potential pitfalls of establishing an IR, as well as the roles that librarians and authors play in its effective maintenance. In the modern era of electronic publishing, universities and other academic institutions have come to see the importance of having an institutional repository (IR) as part of their intellectual dissemination infrastructure. An IR is an online repository of academic resources that serves as a repository for the intellectual capital of a university or other organization. It's a way to manage the digital scholarship created by its community members before, during, and after publication, all …
Utilizing Student Workers For Digital Commons Projects, Ellen Amatangelo, Elizabeth Parret
Utilizing Student Workers For Digital Commons Projects, Ellen Amatangelo, Elizabeth Parret
Faculty Publications
This lightning talk was presented by the Scholarly Communications Coordinator and the Scholarly Communications Student Supervisor from Brigham Young University at the Digital Commons North American Conference 2023. It provides an overview of how student workers at the BYU Library are involved in Digital Commons projects and discusses the types of projects and processes that students work on, including an outline of student supervisor responsibilities. The purpose of the presentation is to get other Digital Commons administrators excited about expanding the possibilities of their repositories by collaborating with student workers.
Institutional Repositories For Higher Educational Institutions: A New Opportunity For Academic Libraries, Taher Hussain Khan Mr.
Institutional Repositories For Higher Educational Institutions: A New Opportunity For Academic Libraries, Taher Hussain Khan Mr.
Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)
Digital information created for pedagogical and research purposes is gaining traction, and there is a growing interest within academic institutions to gather, archive, and provide value-added services based on this content. The term "institutional repository" refers to a novel system for storing and sharing digital academic works produced by students and teachers at different educational institutions. It was conceived as a solution to the issues plaguing the present model of scholarly communication, which is dominated by for-profit journal publishers and suppliers. Libraries will need to hire librarians with knowledge of digital collection management and the Open Archive Information System (OAIS) …
Discoverability And Search Engine Visibility Of Repository Platforms, Danping Dong, Aaron Tay
Discoverability And Search Engine Visibility Of Repository Platforms, Danping Dong, Aaron Tay
Research Collection Library
It is of increasing interest and importance to understand the discoverability of content hosted on institutional repositories (IRs) and data repositories beyond the library context and on the wider web, as IRs play a significant role in promoting and disseminating the research outputs of an institution. This chapter provides an overview of early studies on IR discoverability in search engines, discusses standardized metrics for repository usage and ways to monitor search engine optimization, and provides practical suggestions to expose IR content to non-Google indexes and aggregators, such as Unpaywall. The second part of this chapter presents a case study and …
White House Memo And Faculty Cvs, Ellen Amatangelo
White House Memo And Faculty Cvs, Ellen Amatangelo
Faculty Publications
This information was presented to the Subject Librarians Council. The "Memorandum for the Heads of Executive Departments and Agencies" from the Executive Office of the President concerning "Ensuring Free, Immediate, and Equitable Access to Federally Funded Research" was discussed. The presentation also includes a portion on how faculty publications are added the BYU's institutional repository.