Dear DSpace community,
The webinar below will feature one of the interesting presentations
made at the SPARC on increasing use and content of your institutional
repository through creative services. If you missed the presentation
at SPARC, or would like to here more detail than presented at SPARC
please sign up below.
best,
Michele Kimpton
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All About Repositories Webinar Series: Increasing use and content
through creative service-repository bundling; the case at University
of Nebraska-Lincoln
Wed., April 15, 2009 - 9:00 a.m. PT; 12:00 p.m. ET
There is no fee to attend.
Please register at http://www.education-webevents.com no later than
April 14, 2009.
On April 15, the All About Repositories Webinar Series will feature
the first online follow up to the successful 2008 SPARC Digital
Repositories Meeting. In response to feedback from participants at
the meeting, several online events will be organized that explore
meeting topics in more detail and anticipate the program of the 2010
SPARC Digital Repositories Meeting, to be held in Baltimore,
November 8 & 9, 2010. At the April installment in the series, Joan
Giesecke and Paul Royster from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln
will reprise their presentation on value-added services and delve
more deeply into discussion with participants during this one-hour
session.
Description:
During its three years of operations, the institutional repository
at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) has gathered and posted
over 21,000 documents, which together with its hosted ETD collection
make it the country’s third largest institutional repository. Usage
records also indicate it is one of the busiest, serving up more than
100,000 downloads a month. The repository has also become the
cornerstone for a bundle of electronic publishing services developed
and provided by the UNL Libraries, which may be seen as the enablers
or preconditions of the IR’s successful track record.
To facilitate and accelerate faculty uptake and participation in the
IR, services are provided to supplement the “traditional” self-
archiving model. UNL call it their “Do It For Me” model, and the
terms are basically: send us your publications list, and they will
do the rest. The IR staff does article collection, permissions
clearing, scanning, preparation of author versions (including
typesetting and proofing), and ultimately mediated deposit. More
than 90% of the faculty articles in the IR have been acquired
through this model. Mediated deposit allows for greater consistency
in metadata, file sizes and data integrity, quality control, and
copyright/permissions compliance.
There are also services that provide a “running re-sale” to
stimulate interest and increase satisfaction among depositors. The
UNL IR provides regular monthly usage reports and usage analysis to
depositors, which has proved immensely useful in increasing
submissions from authors and co-authors who are impressed with the
numbers of downloads their articles receive
This Webinar will: discuss UNL practices for content recruitment and
document preparation, policies and implementation, staffing
requirements, and software customization and design; and consider
the central role of the library’s IR in an overall campus strategy
for scholarly communication and publication.
The event is an installment of the All About Repositories Webinar
Series, presented by the DSpace Foundation, Fedora Commons, Sun
Microsystems and SPARC. Each month a new topic or issue of interest
to repository communities will be presented in a one-hour online
format. All About Repositories Webinar Series will be web cast for
synchronous event access, and will also be made available through
DSpace, Fedora, Sun and SPARC web sites as an open educational
reference for repository users and developers.
All About Repositories Webinar Series: Increasing use and content
through creative service-repository bundling; the case at University
of Nebraska-Lincoln, with Joan Giesecke & Paul Royster
Wed., April 15, 2009 - 9:00 a.m. PT; 12:00 p.m. ET
There is no fee to attend.
Please register at http://www.education-webevents.com no later than
April 14, 2009.
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