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Who Uses This Stuff, Anyway?, Andrew Wesolek
Who Uses This Stuff, Anyway?, Andrew Wesolek
Library Faculty & Staff Presentations
A great deal of the professional literature is devoted to developing content and faculty buy-in for institutional repositories. However, little is known about the end users of these repositories. This is unfortunate since great content is of little value if no one uses it and knowing more about users and their needs leads to more relevant content. So, we need to ask ourselves: "Who exactly is using this stuff, anyway?" Since 2010, Utah State University has begun surveying its IR users to answer this question. DigitalCommons@USU houses more than 26,000 documents with full-text downloads of over 800,000. With this much …
The Library As Publisher: Increasing Library Relevance Through Institutional Repository Services, Richard W. Clement
The Library As Publisher: Increasing Library Relevance Through Institutional Repository Services, Richard W. Clement
Library Faculty & Staff Presentations
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Beyond Research: Opencourseware In The Institutional Repository, Heather Leary, Brett E. Shelton, Marion Jensen
Beyond Research: Opencourseware In The Institutional Repository, Heather Leary, Brett E. Shelton, Marion Jensen
Library Faculty & Staff Presentations
Presentation given at the 2009 LITA National Forum in Salt Lake City, Utah on archiving OpenCourseWare in the Institutional Repository.
The main function of OpenCourseWare is to provide open access to collections of educational materials used in formal courses. The main function of an Institutional Repository is to collect, preserve, and disseminate intellectual output of an institution. Since OCW is a significant portion of the intellectual output of a university, archiving OCW in an institutions repository seems a perfect marriage of means and opportunity.
Integrating An Opencourseware And Institutional Repository, Heather Leary, Brett E. Shelton
Integrating An Opencourseware And Institutional Repository, Heather Leary, Brett E. Shelton
Library Faculty & Staff Presentations
This presentation was given at the 2009 Open Education Conference in Vancouver, BC. It shows how and why Utah State University chose to archive their OpenCourseWare. This was done in their Institutional Repository, DigitalCommons@USU. The presentation emphasizes the importance of the Open Education community to work with Librarians.