Scholarly Publishing Commons^™

New And Upcoming Bepress Developments, Promita Chatterji

Digital Commons - Heartland User Group + IR Day

This presentation will discuss recent and upcoming developments from bepress, including:

• Harvesting: Work with pilot testers, a demonstration of the initial release of our harvesting tool, and plans for future development of the feature
• New option to host streaming content on Digital Commons
• Fields to support grants and professional service information on the Expert Gallery Suite
• Tools to support reporting on campus

Closing The Gap? Curating Bepress Metadata For Share, Emily Stenberg, Lisa Palmer, Joanne Paterson, Wendy Robertson

Digital Commons - Heartland User Group + IR Day

The goal of the SHARE initiative, a partnership between the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and the Center for Open Science (COS), is to build a “free, open, data set about research and scholarly activities across their life cycle.” As of August 2017, 161 repositories and publishers have made metadata available to SHARE for harvesting, and the aggregated data set is available for searching. Many metadata providers are institutional repositories utilizing the bepress Digital Commons platform whose metadata is harvested through the OAI-PMH (Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting) protocol for repository interoperability. A group of Digital Commons repository …

12 Years Plus An Ir Manager, Paul Royster

Digital Commons - Heartland User Group + IR Day

From 2005 through 2017, I have managed the University of Nebraska's Digital Commons institutional repository. This presentation covers some past, present, and future concerns: Why Nebraska? Our mission. Our history. Our content and usage. Our assets. Our competition. Our allies. Our obstacles. Our services. Our strategies. Our risks and rewards. Our relations with publishers. Order vs. chaos. The information universe. Miracles and disruption.

Zea Books: Free Monograph Publishing From The Library At Nebraska—How And Why, Paul Royster

Digital Commons - Heartland User Group + IR Day

The University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries has been publishing monographs since 2006, with 55 titles to date. This program will give a brief history of the effort, with examples, focusing on why we do it, how we do it—costs, staff, methods, particular concerns—, and what are the possible implications for the larger arena of scholarly communications. Online at http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/zeabook/

Case Study - A Call To Action: Migrating The Reveille To Digital Commons, Elizabeth Chance, Jennifer Sauer

Digital Commons - Heartland User Group + IR Day

Like many institutions, Forsyth Digital Collections presents their content on more than one platform. Since the acquisition of Digital Commons and the launch of the FHSU Scholars Repository in January 2016, there has been an institutional effort to determine which platform is best suited to displaying existing content. Beginning in 2009, the FHSU Reveille Yearbooks collection had been hosted in CONTENTdm. The user experience for this collection left much to be desired. In 2014 additional effort was put into improving the user experience in CONTENTdm for this collection. However, in the spring of 2017 it was determined that the Reveille …

An Open Access Solution That Is Genuinely And Globally Open, A. Townsend Peterson

Digital Commons - Heartland User Group + IR Day

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