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Social and Behavioral Sciences Commons

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MS Powerpoint

2014

Scholarly Communication

Valparaiso University

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Lessons Learned: Developing A Sustainable Publishing Program, Sarah Beaubien Jul 2014

Lessons Learned: Developing A Sustainable Publishing Program, Sarah Beaubien

Digital Commons+ Great Lakes User Group Annual Meeting

As the scholarly communication landscape continues to evolve, demand for innovative publishing services and emerging models of dissemination is increasing. In response, more academic libraries are taking on the role of publisher, and are providing a variety of library-led publishing services. What are the risks and rewards in establishing a library publishing program? How can we work toward the development of sustainable publishing services that will serve our campuses well into the future, and that will adapt with changing scholarly practices? / / At Grand Valley State University, our journal and open access textbook publishing has grown significantly in the …


What Does Your Repository Do?: Understanding And Calculating Impact, Margaret Heller Jul 2014

What Does Your Repository Do?: Understanding And Calculating Impact, Margaret Heller

Digital Commons+ Great Lakes User Group Annual Meeting

Librarians working in scholarly communications need to understand how to calculate and explain how including work in a repository affects its impact. This presentation describes the current state of research and practice into metrics for repositories including traditional metrics and newer alternative metrics, and some preliminary results of a research study assessing the usage and impact of a Digital Commons repository.