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The Cupola Infographic (2014), Janelle Wertzberger Nov 2014

The Cupola Infographic (2014), Janelle Wertzberger

Janelle Wertzberger

This infographic displays key facts and figures about Gettysburg College's institutional repository, The Cupola: Scholarship at Gettysburg College, as of 5/31/14 (end of fiscal year).


Measuring The International Usage Of U.S. Institutional Repositories, Lauren Fralinger, Jonathan Bull Jul 2014

Measuring The International Usage Of U.S. Institutional Repositories, Lauren Fralinger, Jonathan Bull

Jonathan Bull

Purpose – In an educational world with increasing internationalization, digitization, assessment and financial justification, US institutions, especially academic libraries, must justify each new project. Institutional Repositories (IRs) are no exception. The authors attempt to identify factors that might affect the international usage of US IRs as part of assessment efforts to determine an IR's return-on-investment. Design/methodology/approach – A survey was disseminated to IR administrators asking for demographic information, international usage counts for website hits and downloads, and any internationalization efforts connected to the IR in order to determine any influencing factors on an IR's international usage. Findings – While many …


Faculty And Staff Checklist, Jonathan Bull Jul 2014

Faculty And Staff Checklist, Jonathan Bull

Jonathan Bull

This document lists materials that faculty and staff need to send to the library to have their work added to Valparaiso University's IR, ValpoScholar, such as a copyright release form and CV.


Linking Data To Transportation Research, David Scherer, Courtney Matthews, Amit Varma, Lisa Zilinski Mar 2014

Linking Data To Transportation Research, David Scherer, Courtney Matthews, Amit Varma, Lisa Zilinski

Lisa Zilinski

This presentation will discuss ongoing developments in a collaboration between the Purdue University Libraries and the Joint Transportation Research Program (JTRP). We will present a case study where a comprehensive work flow was developed that links technical report publication to cited data sets. The Libraries, JTRP, and researchers have leveraged this new model to increase research impact, reduce research redundancy, and incorporate data management into the research life cycle.


Western Libraries: International Reach With Scholarship@Western, Western's Institutional Repository : Mapping Downloads: Two Hours In 35 Seconds, Joanne Paterson Dec 2013

Western Libraries: International Reach With Scholarship@Western, Western's Institutional Repository : Mapping Downloads: Two Hours In 35 Seconds, Joanne Paterson

Joanne Paterson

Western Libraries' open access institutional repository, Scholarship@Western, disseminates research produced at the University throughout the world. This sped up map, recorded one Sunday morning, illustrates in real time, the global impact of Western's scholarly publications.


Student Embargoes Within Institutional Repositories: Faculty Early Transparency Concerns, David Stern Dec 2013

Student Embargoes Within Institutional Repositories: Faculty Early Transparency Concerns, David Stern

David Stern

Within the academic sphere there are legitimate reasons why some faculty-student collaboration efforts should not be documented and released ASAP as open access materials placed in institutional repositories. The need for the protection of ideas and processes prior to faculty publication can be in direct conflict with the intention for institutional repositories to promote the excellent efforts of students. This is certainly true in laboratory situations in which details of experiments and research areas are guarded for the lifetime of the exploration process. The implications of this situation can range from the removal of students from sensitive collaborations (unless there …