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If You Build It, Will It Collapse? Roadblocks To Building A Regional Repository Community, Erin Jerome, Lisa A. Palmer, Rebecca Reznik-Zellen
If You Build It, Will It Collapse? Roadblocks To Building A Regional Repository Community, Erin Jerome, Lisa A. Palmer, Rebecca Reznik-Zellen
ACRL New England Chapter Annual Conference
Background: In July 2017 the authors organized a regional user group meeting for librarians who use or were considering Digital Commons, the popular hosted institutional repository platform from bepress. It had been many years since this group had been brought together. Bepress sponsored the meeting and sent a product consultant to participate. The organizers hoped to make this an annual event, and also broaden the scope to all repository platforms. By all accounts, the well-attended New England Digital Commons User Group Meeting was a success and evaluations were positive. Just five days later, however, bepress announced that the company had …
From Worst To Best: Discovering Ir Best Practices And Planning For Change, Hedda Monaghan
From Worst To Best: Discovering Ir Best Practices And Planning For Change, Hedda Monaghan
ACRL New England Chapter Annual Conference
This poster presentation discusses how an institutional repository (IR) team at a mid-sized university discovered their best practices. A period of staff changes and shortages caused IR projects to slow-down almost to a halt due to a lack of clearly defined best practices. How and why IR projects faltered is explicitly discussed. This poster includes lessons from IR literature, with notes on adapting best practices from larger institutions to smaller institutions. How the concept of lab notebooks from the biological sciences can be incorporated to an IR workflow is demonstrated. Finally, the poster discusses working with an eclectic IR collection …
The New Now: Institutional Repositories And Academia, Marilyn S. Billings
The New Now: Institutional Repositories And Academia, Marilyn S. Billings
Marilyn S. Billings
This keynote presentation provides a general overview of the changing digital landscape for scholarly communication with an emphasis on the role that institutional repositories play in these changes.
Building Your Fan Base: Promoting Your Repository On And Off Campus, Marilyn S. Billings
Building Your Fan Base: Promoting Your Repository On And Off Campus, Marilyn S. Billings
Marilyn S. Billings
Nearing ten years with their repository initiative, Marilyn Billings and her colleagues have made outreach and the formation of partnerships core to their activities. In her presentation, Marilyn will give a retrospective look at some of the major outreach initiatives and partnerships formed over the past decade, including whom they approached and how. She’ll also provide concrete tips and ideas that you can take back to your own campuses.
Open Access And Copyright For Theses And Dissertations, Meghan Banach
Open Access And Copyright For Theses And Dissertations, Meghan Banach
Meghan Banach Bergin
The event will give graduate students an overview of open access and the benefits of choosing open access for electronic theses and dissertations. An overview of copyright and fair use as it relates to theses and dissertations will also be presented.
A University Library Creates A Digital Repository For Documenting And Disseminating Community Engagement, William A. Miller, Marilyn S. Billings
A University Library Creates A Digital Repository For Documenting And Disseminating Community Engagement, William A. Miller, Marilyn S. Billings
Marilyn S. Billings
Digital repositories are new tools for documenting the accumulated scholarly work produced at academic institutions and disseminating that material broadly via the internet. Digital repositories support all file types and can be adapted to meet the custom design specifications of individual institutions. A section for community engagement initiatives was created within ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst, the digital repository for University of Massachusetts Amherst. Collected materials can provide a comprehensive record of partnerships, results, and products that advance institutional goals while facilitating the development of individual academic portfolios. This innovative application of library science allows community engagement to be appropriately valued as the …
The Transformation Of Library Services In A Time Of Rapid Scholarly Communication Change, Marilyn S. Billings
The Transformation Of Library Services In A Time Of Rapid Scholarly Communication Change, Marilyn S. Billings
Marilyn S. Billings
Academic libraries of all sizes can and must strategically position themselves to capture, manage, and disseminate the digital scholarship of their respective institutions. There are many new opportunities and challenges that these roles are providing for librarians in their relationships with faculty and other members of the campus community. Our discussion topics will include how the liaisons are participating in engaged discussions with the faculty about how to manage rights to their scholarly articles and creative works, describe services provided by our institutional repository (ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst) and how this has facilitated new partnerships, describe librarians’ active role in creating data …
New Roles For Library Faculty Liaisons At The University Of Massachusetts Amherst, Marilyn S. Billings
New Roles For Library Faculty Liaisons At The University Of Massachusetts Amherst, Marilyn S. Billings
Marilyn S. Billings
Academic libraries of all sizes can and must strategically position themselves to capture, manage, and disseminate the digital scholarship of their respective institutions. Explore the new opportunities that these roles are providing for liaison librarians in their relationships with faculty and other members of the campus community at UMass Amherst.
Transforming Library Services In A Time Of Rapid Scholarly Communication Change, Marilyn S. Billings
Transforming Library Services In A Time Of Rapid Scholarly Communication Change, Marilyn S. Billings
Marilyn S. Billings
Variation of sabbatical talks given at University of Washington, Indiana University, University of North Carolina, and Washington State University that discusses strategic scholarly communication and digital library developments, and open education initiatives at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Managing A University Library In The Digital Age, Gerald J. Schafer, Marilyn S. Billings
Managing A University Library In The Digital Age, Gerald J. Schafer, Marilyn S. Billings
Marilyn S. Billings
This presentation discusses the structure and function of libraries, student and faculty services, scholarly communication and the role of institutional repositories, and professional qualifications of librarians and information professionals.
The Transformation Of Scholarly Communication: Roles For Libraries, Marilyn S. Billings
The Transformation Of Scholarly Communication: Roles For Libraries, Marilyn S. Billings
Marilyn S. Billings
Topic: Scholarly Communication and Institutional Repositories: the role of Librarians
The Benefits Of Managing And Publishing Etds "In House" Using An Open Access Repository, Meghan Banach
The Benefits Of Managing And Publishing Etds "In House" Using An Open Access Repository, Meghan Banach
Meghan Banach Bergin
Open access repositories have given universities an exciting new opportunity to manage and publish their own ETDs. At the same time, new challenges have emerged such as objections to open access and new more complicated workflows. Meghan Banach, Metadata Catalog Librarian at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, has coordinated the library side of ETD management for the past 4 years. She oversees the management of about 500 theses and dissertations per year. She will use the UMass ETD program as a case study to describe two workflows for managing ETDS: one for doctoral dissertations which involves both the UMI Proquest …
Recruiting And Retooling To Staff The Ir, Marilyn S. Billings
Recruiting And Retooling To Staff The Ir, Marilyn S. Billings
Marilyn S. Billings
This presentation uses the IR at UMass Amherst, ScholarWorks, as a case study in finding creative ways to staff an IR.
The Changing Landscape Of Scholarly Communication: The Role Of The Library & Its Partners, Marilyn S. Billings
The Changing Landscape Of Scholarly Communication: The Role Of The Library & Its Partners, Marilyn S. Billings
Marilyn S. Billings
Presentation for online ISIS group.
The Potential Of Partnerships, Marilyn S. Billings
The Potential Of Partnerships, Marilyn S. Billings
Marilyn S. Billings
This webinar will use the University of Massachusetts‘ institutional repository as a case study to explore how the new digital repository service has affected the way librarians envision our place in the future of the academy, how the academy is changing its view of the library’s role, new tools and skills that we are developing to fulfill this service, and new partnerships that we have created and fostered to exploit this new vision. We hope to foster discussion and provide insights and opportunities for further exploration of how the role of libraries as publishers enables us to be key partners …
The Changing Landscape Of Scholarly Communication & The Role Of An Institutional Repository, Marilyn S. Billings
The Changing Landscape Of Scholarly Communication & The Role Of An Institutional Repository, Marilyn S. Billings
Marilyn S. Billings
This presentation outlines new emerging areas of scholarly communication that are being seen in Academic Libraries, the relationship to institutional repositories, and to the changing roles of academic librarians.
Scholarworks As A Digital Publishing Platform, Marilyn S. Billings
Scholarworks As A Digital Publishing Platform, Marilyn S. Billings
Marilyn S. Billings
This presentation demonstrates how the University Libraries at UMass Amherst are using their Digital Commons IR ScholarWorks to provide digital publishing programs for UMass Amherst.
Library Space Redesign (Virtual), Marilyn S. Billings
Library Space Redesign (Virtual), Marilyn S. Billings
Marilyn S. Billings
This session will present a series of "think pieces" for both librarians and other campus constituencies to explore as we create new ways of working together to meet the needs of students, faculty and researchers of the 21st century. Topics will include new scholarly communication techniques, digital repositories, new partnerships and ways of marketing our scholarly outreach activities, and examine the implications for our current and future workforce.
Library Space Redesign (Virtual), Marilyn S. Billings
Library Space Redesign (Virtual), Marilyn S. Billings
University Libraries Publication Series
This session will present a series of "think pieces" for both librarians and other campus constituencies to explore as we create new ways of working together to meet the needs of students, faculty and researchers of the 21st century. Topics will include new scholarly communication techniques, digital repositories, new partnerships and ways of marketing our scholarly outreach activities, and examine the implications for our current and future workforce.
To Host Or Not To Host, Or, Decisions Along The Way To A Successful Hosted Repository Investment, Marilyn S. Billings
To Host Or Not To Host, Or, Decisions Along The Way To A Successful Hosted Repository Investment, Marilyn S. Billings
Marilyn S. Billings
The decision to host a digital repository or purchase a hosted solution can be a daunting one. What are some of the factors involved? Who should be consulted along the way? How does one go about making this decision? This presentation addresses these questions and the decision process that led the University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries to choose Digital Commons, the digital repository software developed and hosted by bePress. Several projects currently underway in ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst are highlighted.
Research Showcase Projects Within Scholarworks @ Umass Amherst, Marilyn S. Billings
Research Showcase Projects Within Scholarworks @ Umass Amherst, Marilyn S. Billings
University Libraries Publication Series
This presentation highlights various types of research projects that are contained in the digital repository ScholarWorks @ UMass Amherst, a Digital Commons site.
Research Showcase Projects Within Scholarworks @ Umass Amherst, Marilyn S. Billings
Research Showcase Projects Within Scholarworks @ Umass Amherst, Marilyn S. Billings
Marilyn S. Billings
This presentation highlights various types of research projects that are contained in the digital repository ScholarWorks @ UMass Amherst, a Digital Commons site.
Changing Scholarly Communications And The Role Of An Institutional Repository In The Digital Landscape, Marilyn S. Billings
Changing Scholarly Communications And The Role Of An Institutional Repository In The Digital Landscape, Marilyn S. Billings
Marilyn S. Billings
Presentation to University of Maine community (faculty, administration, librarians, and administration) about scholarly communication topics (author rights, copyright) and institutional repositories, using ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst as example of an IR.
Changing Scholarly Communications And The Role Of An Institutional Repository In The Digital Landscape, Marilyn S. Billings
Changing Scholarly Communications And The Role Of An Institutional Repository In The Digital Landscape, Marilyn S. Billings
University Libraries Publication Series
Presentation to University of Maine community (faculty, administration, librarians, and administration) about scholarly communication topics (author rights, copyright) and institutional repositories, using ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst as example of an IR.
Selected Digital Repository Projects At The University Of Massachusetts Amherst, Marilyn S. Billings
Selected Digital Repository Projects At The University Of Massachusetts Amherst, Marilyn S. Billings
Marilyn S. Billings
In this presentation, I describe the Digital Commons service at UMass Amherst and show a wide variety of ways we have developed our instance, ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst
Selected Digital Repository Projects At The University Of Massachusetts Amherst, Marilyn S. Billings
Selected Digital Repository Projects At The University Of Massachusetts Amherst, Marilyn S. Billings
University Libraries Publication Series
In this presentation, I describe the Digital Commons service at UMass Amherst and show a wide variety of ways we have developed our instance, ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst
Digital Repositories: A Umass Amherst Perspective, Fall 2007, Marilyn S. Billings
Digital Repositories: A Umass Amherst Perspective, Fall 2007, Marilyn S. Billings
Marilyn S. Billings
No abstract provided.
Digital Repositories: A Umass Amherst Perspective, Fall 2007, Marilyn S. Billings
Digital Repositories: A Umass Amherst Perspective, Fall 2007, Marilyn S. Billings
University Libraries Publication Series
No abstract provided.