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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 …

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.

Ojs At Byu, C. Jeffrey Belliston

Faculty Publications

A number of years ago, the library began hosting the digitized back files of several campus-based journal publications in CONTENTdm. A little over two years ago, Mark Belk, the editor of the Western North American Naturalist whose backfile we were hosting, approached Randy Olsen, our University Librarian with a problem. Mark explained that in his role as editor he was drowning in e-mails and things were falling through the cracks. Randy tasked me to investigate options. This investigation was made considerably easier by work done by Mark Czyzk from Johns Hopkins. The investigation led to the selection of OJS as …

Scholarspace: Help Us Establish Our Place In The Scholarly Web, Barry J. Bailey

Staff Development Presentations

The presenter discusses why ScholarSpace @ JCCC, a institutional repository is essential to collecting the intellectual output of Johnson County Community College

Tco And Roi: Assessing And Evaluating An Institutional Repository, Pamela Bluh

Faculty Scholarship

This presentation was given at the American Association of Law Libraries meeting, July 27, 2009 in Washington, DC. The powerpoint contains two video snippets. In order for the snippets to play users should download the presentation as well as the two supplemental files to the desktop.

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.

The End Of Institutional Repositories And The Beginning Of Social Academic Research Service: An Enhanced Role For Libraries, Stuart M. Basefsky

Stuart Basefsky

As more and more universities establish Institutional Repositories (IR), awareness is developing about the limitations of IRs in enhancing the academic research service. The concept of an IR needs to be expanded to include the integration of the processes that transform intellectual endeavor into a broadening array of academic and research support services which are fundamentally social. These include, but are not limited to – (1) sharing institutionally developed intellectual product (traditional IR) (2) informing others of the availability of this product with defined purpose (3) collecting additional academically relevant materials in digital formats using IRs (4) disseminating timely information …

Tapping Utah's Scholarly Works, C. Jeffrey Belliston, Allyson Mower, Cheryl Walters

Faculty Publications

Librarians from academic institutions in Utah talked about the institutional repositories (IRs) they have created to provide open access to the intellectual output of their faculty, staff, and students. Panelists provided an introduction to institutional repositories, considerations in choosing an IR software, workflow and copyright issues. They also highlighted some of the variety of materials in their respective IRs. 38 slides.

Academic Library As Publishing Agent: Showcasing Student, Faculty, And Campus Scholarship And Publications, Allegra Swift

Library Staff Publications and Research

Academic libraries of all sizes can and must strategically position themselves to be a campus publisher. A means of doing this is to implement an IR, providing institutions an opportunity to showcase senior theses, and student and faculty peer-reviewed journals. Presentation includes representatives from a small college, a consortium of small colleges, and a university with a university press.

Digitizing Dissertations For An Institutional Repository: A Process And Cost Analysis, Mary E. Piorun, Lisa A. Palmer

Lisa A. Palmer

Objective: This paper describes the Lamar Soutter Library’s process and costs associated with digitizing 300 doctoral dissertations for a newly implemented institutional repository at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.

Methodology: Project tasks included identifying metadata elements, obtaining and tracking permissions, converting the dissertations to an electronic format, and coordinating workflow between library departments. Each dissertation was scanned, reviewed for quality control, enhanced with a table of contents, processed through an optical character recognition (OCR) function, and added to the institutional repository.

Results: Three hundred and twenty dissertations were digitized and added to the repository for a cost of $23,562, …

Anatomy Of An Institutional Repository: Dissecting The Metadata Process, Lisa A. Palmer

Lisa A. Palmer

In 2006 the Lamar Soutter Library at the University of Massachusetts Medical School licensed ProQuest’s Digital Commons institutional repository (IR) software and launched eScholarship@UMMS. The goals were to provide a showcase for the medical school’s research, teaching, and scholarship; promote open access to research; and make available an easy way for faculty and researchers to promote and distribute their work. To date the Library has established five distinct collections. Each collection varies in scope and in the way the Library acquires the content. This variation poses many challenges for metadata creation and maintenance. Each collection entails the establishment of record …

Digitizing Dissertations For The Escholarship@Umms Institutional Repository, Mary E. Piorun, Lisa A. Palmer

Lisa A. Palmer

Our presentation will describe the process and costs associated with our first digitization project: digitizing 300 doctoral dissertations for a newly implemented institutional repository at UMass Medical School. We will start at the beginning: selecting team members and identifying their roles, choosing the right repository system, and identifying a manageable first project. We will explain how we partnered with our Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences and contacted alumni for permission to digitize their dissertations. We will also discuss technical information and decisions such as software and equipment used to scan and create searchable text, using OCR technology to convert abstracts, …

Challenges And Lessons Learned: Moving From Image Database To Institutional Repository, Mary E. Piorun, Lisa A. Palmer, James F. Comes

Lisa A. Palmer

Purpose– The purpose of this paper is to chronicle the Lamar Soutter Library's effort to build an educational image database, and how the project developed into an institutional repository.

Design/methodology/approach– The paper is divided into three phases and highlights the organizational, political, technological and resource issues that are unique to a specialized library with a medium-sized staff, lacking the resources of a traditional university campus. The case concludes with a list of barriers and facilitators to success and a summary of lessons learned.

Findings– The paper finds that a library with limited staff, funding, and systems development …

Uncl Future Library Conference: Unl’S Institutional Repository, Paul Royster

Paul Royster

What is an Institutional Repository ? How long have these been around ? What’s the purpose ? Lately in the news: What does a repository consist of ? What systems are “out there” ? Advantages of commercial package Advantages and Disadvantages of open source systems UNL’s history UNL’s rank Building contents Staffing Services we offer Who can participate ? What do they deposit ? Who are the biggest participants? Usage: 3-year history Outreach How do they find us ? Google-originated downloads Publishing original content NIH PubMed Central deposits UNL Libraries & NIH mandate We are doing this because ... How …

The University Of Nebraska-Lincoln Digital Commons, Sue Ann Gardner

UNL Libraries: Faculty Publications

Provides an overview of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries’ institutional repository, the Digital Commons, on the BEPress platform.

The Other Sustainability Problem, Diane J. Graves

Library Faculty Research

The problem has been around for some time. It’s been called a “crisis” and a “tragedy.” Experts have been questioning the sustainability of the current model for over two decades. The evidence points to the need for change, but it is so hard to break from old habits and patterns, from the tried-and-true ways. And then there are the politics. Many people have a vested interest in maintaining the status quo, and they oppose any discussion of alternatives.

Metadata Implementation For Building Cross-Institutional Repositories: Lessons Learned From The Liberal Arts Scholarly Repository (Lasr), Jane Costanza, R. Cecilia Knight, Hsianghui Liu-Spencer

Library Faculty Research

Institutional repositories are an exciting innovation in scholarly communication and liberal arts institutions have a unique opportunity to create repository collections that reflect their tradition. However, the challenges of cost, staffing, infrastructure, standardized metadata, and content recruitment that are part and parcel of developing institutional repositories may be daunting to individual liberal arts institutions. The idea that multiple, like-minded institutions could join forces to share their efforts, unique challenges, and maximize their efficiencies grew into the Liberal Arts Scholarly Repository (LASR). Initial steps in this collaboration included the development of a group mission and a statement of collection policies. Technical …