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Digital Commons @ Colby: Best Practices For Undergraduate Research, Susan Cole, Martin Kelly
Digital Commons @ Colby: Best Practices For Undergraduate Research, Susan Cole, Martin Kelly
Martin F Kelly III (Marty Kelly)
Colby College's contribution to the bepress sponsored webinar. From bepress' description:
Undergraduate research initiatives are cropping up at institutions across the country, highlighting the need for undergraduate publication venues. Colleges and universities are finding that publishing undergraduate work not only completes the research cycle for emerging scholars; it also showcases the quality of an institution’s student work to prospective students and their parents, as well as to prospective faculty members.
At Colby College, Suzi Cole, Scholarly Resources & Services, Sciences Librarian, and Martin Kelly, Assistant Director for Digital Collections, collaborate with the Environmental Studies program to publish the Colby Environmental …
Measuring The International Usage Of U.S. Institutional Repositories, Lauren Fralinger, Jonathan Bull
Measuring The International Usage Of U.S. Institutional Repositories, Lauren Fralinger, Jonathan Bull
Jonathan Bull
Purpose – In an educational world with increasing internationalization, digitization, assessment and financial justification, US institutions, especially academic libraries, must justify each new project. Institutional Repositories (IRs) are no exception. The authors attempt to identify factors that might affect the international usage of US IRs as part of assessment efforts to determine an IR's return-on-investment. Design/methodology/approach – A survey was disseminated to IR administrators asking for demographic information, international usage counts for website hits and downloads, and any internationalization efforts connected to the IR in order to determine any influencing factors on an IR's international usage. Findings – While many …
Sustainable And High-Impact Special Collections In Digital Commons, Michele Gibney, Benjamin Gaunt
Sustainable And High-Impact Special Collections In Digital Commons, Michele Gibney, Benjamin Gaunt
Michele Gibney
Looking to grow your IR? When identifying new projects, don’t overlook Special Collections!
Increasing the discoverability of and access to rare collections can help researchers, enhance your institution’s visibility, and drive valuable traffic to your repository.
In this webinar, Benjamin Gaunt and Michele Gibney of the bepress Digital Commons Consulting Services team explain the transformative impact of digitized special collections, sharing download statistics, LIS scholarship, and examples from the Digital Commons community. Ben and Michele also explore how Digital Commons can effectively showcase a variety of multimedia materials and share strategies for outreach and uploading workflows.
Presented by Michele Gibney, …
If You Build It, They Will Come (If You Invite Them Thoughtfully): Institutional Repositories In Academic Libraries, Janelle Wertzberger
If You Build It, They Will Come (If You Invite Them Thoughtfully): Institutional Repositories In Academic Libraries, Janelle Wertzberger
Janelle Wertzberger
The road to a successful institutional repository is a long and involved one - so where would an interested library begin? What are some important initial considerations? What options exist for repository platforms? Eric Jeitner will discuss some of those considerations, as well as the methodology used to decide on the staging for Arcadia University's ScholarWorks repository.
After picking a platform, decisions must be made about what work belongs in your IR, and why. How can librarians build campus awareness about open access? Who should be promoting your IR? Janelle Wertzberger will talk about the education and outreach efforts that …
Raising The Profile Of Iu Scholarship: Institutional Repositories (And More) At Iu, Cheryl Truesdell, Kimberly Thompson, Sherri Michaels
Raising The Profile Of Iu Scholarship: Institutional Repositories (And More) At Iu, Cheryl Truesdell, Kimberly Thompson, Sherri Michaels
Cheryl B. Truesdell
No abstract provided.
Institutional Repositories At Small Institutions In America: Some Current Trends, Melissa Nykanen
Institutional Repositories At Small Institutions In America: Some Current Trends, Melissa Nykanen
Melissa Nykanen
The research reported in this article was undertaken to determine the level of implementation of institutional repositories (IRs) at small institutions enrolling fewer than 10,000 students. The study analyzed quantitative and qualitative data from IRs at a number of small institutions with the aim of observing relevant patterns and trends that may or may not be unique to small institutions. The study concludes that IRs at small institutions exist in significant numbers, and they exhibit some unique patterns, particularly in the benefits and challenges specific to small institutions, the association with IR consortia, and the focus on student research.
Leveraging Institutional Repositories To Support Your Institution's Strategic Mission (July), Richard Clement
Leveraging Institutional Repositories To Support Your Institution's Strategic Mission (July), Richard Clement
Richard W. Clement
This presentation was given at the 2009 American Library Association annual conference. It addresses how to improve the chances of a successful Institutional Repository and updates his previous presentation at the 2009 Association for College and Research Libraries conference.
Building An Institutional Repository In Hard Times, Michael Holt, Fatih Oguz, Deborah Davis, Cliff Landis
Building An Institutional Repository In Hard Times, Michael Holt, Fatih Oguz, Deborah Davis, Cliff Landis
Cliff Landis
This poster presents an overview of an exploratory research initiative to examine and assess the viability of developing an institutional repository system at a teaching-oriented four-year university with minimal monetary commitment. A need has been identified for an institutional repository and necessary steps have been taken to implement it. Several departments worked together to create a prototype Institutional Repository using DSpace, an open source repository software. This repository represents a unique endeavor, in that it has been instituted at a non-research based university and has chosen to involve students in the planning, design, implementation, and documentation stages of the project. …
Leveraging Institutional Repositories To Support Your Institution's Strategic Mission (March), Richard Clement
Leveraging Institutional Repositories To Support Your Institution's Strategic Mission (March), Richard Clement
Richard W. Clement
This presentation was given at the 2009 Association for College and Research Libraries conference during a breakfast presentation. It addresses how to improve the chances of a successful Institutional Repository.