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It Takes A Library: Growing A Robust Institutional Repository In Two Years, Todd Bruns, Stacey Knight-Davis
It Takes A Library: Growing A Robust Institutional Repository In Two Years, Todd Bruns, Stacey Knight-Davis
Todd A. Bruns
No abstract provided.
Ripple Effect: Etds, Workflows, And Policies One Year After "A Bigger Splash", Todd Bruns, Stacey Knight-Davis
Ripple Effect: Etds, Workflows, And Policies One Year After "A Bigger Splash", Todd Bruns, Stacey Knight-Davis
Todd A. Bruns
NOTE: A revised and updated version of this presentation was given at the 2014 United States Electronic Theses and Dissertations Association annual conference in Orlando FL in September 2014. Since 2008 EIU has been digitizing ETDs and making them available via the library catalog, I-Share (the state of IL consortia catalog), and WorldCat. It was only after ETDs were included in the institutional repository (The Keep) that the majority of faculty became fully aware of how accessible these theses had become. This dawning realization led to important conversations with faculty and other stakeholders about concerns regarding publishing, grant approval, and …
Scholarly Communication Coaches, J. Steve Brantley, Todd Bruns
Scholarly Communication Coaches, J. Steve Brantley, Todd Bruns
Todd A. Bruns
The Open Access (OA) movement’s impact on scholarly communication has reached a tipping point. Increasingly, legal requirements such as the Illinois Open Access law (Public Act 098-0925) mandate open access to state funded research, and funding agencies are obliging researchers to preserve data in accessible platforms. In addition, publisher-driven “gold OA” and free-access “green OA” require researchers to navigate complicated options for copyright control. Meanwhile, new OA “scholars networks” offer possibilities for collaboration of which scholars may be unaware. These growing trends have ramifications across many disciplines and they create a need that librarians can fill. Subject librarians trained in …
Jump-Starting Your Journal: Exploding Content Access Via Repository Publishing, Todd Bruns, Stacey Knight-Davis
Jump-Starting Your Journal: Exploding Content Access Via Repository Publishing, Todd Bruns, Stacey Knight-Davis
Todd A. Bruns
Since 2009 Eastern Illinois University (EIU) has hosted the Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy (JCBA), the annual journal of the National Center for the Study of Collective Bargaining in Higher Education and the Professions. The journal compiles the best research, op-eds, and practitioner perspectives on the subject of collective bargaining in higher education, a particularly important subject in the past half-decade of economic constriction, salary stagnation, and pension pressures. This presentation will demonstrate that institutional repository open access does dramatically improve discoverability by comparing logs from the locally hosted platform to usage statistics from Digital Commons. Differences in …
A Bigger Splash: Enhancing Discoverability Of Theses Via Digital Commons, Todd Bruns, Stacey Knight-Davis
A Bigger Splash: Enhancing Discoverability Of Theses Via Digital Commons, Todd Bruns, Stacey Knight-Davis
Todd A. Bruns
No abstract provided.
Open Access & Beyond: The Nuts And Bolts Of Repositories, Todd Bruns
Open Access & Beyond: The Nuts And Bolts Of Repositories, Todd Bruns
Todd A. Bruns
No abstract provided.