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Digital Commons: Examples Of Successful Repositories, Tim Tamminga
Digital Commons: Examples Of Successful Repositories, Tim Tamminga
Tim Tamminga
Digital Commons is used by over 120 institutions around the world. This presentation explores how these institutions are using Digital Commons to extend their services to faculty, researchers, departments and the institution.
Tapping Utah's Scholarly Works, Cheryl D. Walters, Jeff Belliston, Allyson Mower
Tapping Utah's Scholarly Works, Cheryl D. Walters, Jeff Belliston, Allyson Mower
Cheryl D. Walters
Academic institutions in Utah talk about the institutional repositories (IRs) they have created to provide open access to the intellectual output of their university faculty, staff, and students. Covers platforms (Dspace, CONTENTdm, & Digital Commons), copyright, faculty outreach, collaboration on a statewide IR portal, etc.
Academic Library As Publishing Agent: Showcasing Student, Faculty, And Campus Scholarship And Publications, Teresa Fishel, Marilyn Billings, Allegra Gonzalez
Academic Library As Publishing Agent: Showcasing Student, Faculty, And Campus Scholarship And Publications, Teresa Fishel, Marilyn Billings, Allegra Gonzalez
Teresa A. Fishel
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.
The Institutional Repository And The Institution’S Mission, Tim Tamminga
The Institutional Repository And The Institution’S Mission, Tim Tamminga
Tim Tamminga
The presentation briefly looks at how libraries originally presented IRs. These approaches tended to fail. However, when the IR is aligned with the mission of the school, the odds of success are much higher. Libraries need a strategic approach to selling the value of the IR to the Provost and Deans
Combining Scholarly Publishing And Institutional Repositories, Tim Tamminga
Combining Scholarly Publishing And Institutional Repositories, Tim Tamminga
Tim Tamminga
Scholarly publishing and Institutional Repositories work well together. Examples of publishing at various universities are shown in this presentation.
Issues With Scholarly Publishing, Tim Tamminga
Issues With Scholarly Publishing, Tim Tamminga
Tim Tamminga
Universities are increasingly self-publishing scholarly research through formal journals or other forms of publishing. A parallel trend is to include or actually use the IR as the publishing platform. This presentation shows examples of how self-publishing and IRs can work well together.