This is a collection of presentations about Digital Commons. Several of the presentations focus on the benefits to faculty as faculty participation is important for an IR’s success. Other presentations are aimed at university administration and describe the importance of Digital Commons to the institution.

Presentations from 2008

Institutional Repositories: Strategies for the Present and the Future, Jean-Gabriel Bankier, Connie Foster, and Glen Wiley

Research Showcase Projects within ScholarWorks @ UMass Amherst, Marilyn S. Billings

Changing Scholarly Communications and the Role of an Institutional Repository in the Digital Landscape, Marilyn S. Billings

Faculty Senate Research Library Council: Scholarly Communication Activities at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, Marilyn S. Billings

Selected Digital Repository Projects at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Marilyn S. Billings

Digital Commons Faculty Outreach Presentation, Berkeley Electronic Press

Faculty Outreach Services, Berkeley Electronic Press

Digital Commons: Informing the World of ourScholarly Work, Berkeley Electronic Press

Are You Leveraging your Research to Maximize your Career Prospects?, Berkeley Electronic Press

How to Fill Your Institutional Repository: Or, Practical Lessons I Learned by Doing, Paul Royster

Implementing BePress' Digital Commons Institutional Repository Solution: Two Views from the Trenches, Carol A. Watson, James M. Donovan, and Pamela Bluh

Presentations from 2007

TopSCHOLAR Digital Research Repository@WKU, Mike Binder

CopyRights and CopyWrongs: Lessons from the Trenches, Gail P. Clement

Capturing Students' International Experiences: eScholarship@UMMS and International Medical Education, James F. Comes, Cecile Bianco, Sally A. Gore, Lisa A. Palmer, and Mary E. Piorun

Engaging the Spirit 2007: TopSCHOLAR™: Creating Information Possibilities, Connie Foster

Feeding the fledgling repository, Ann Koopman

Digital Commons Presentation for the Liberty University School of Education, Carl Merat

The Role of the Institutional Repository in Preserving the Scholarly Record of the University of Massachusetts, Mary E. Piorun, James F. Comes, and Marilyn S. Billings

E-Journals made easy through Digital Commons, Berkeley Electronic Press

UNL Digital Commons -- An Introduction, Paul Royster

Presentations from 2006

Faculty Copyright Information - Encouraging Retention of Intellectual Property Rights ,

Liaison Presentation Template, Janice Christopher

Content Recruitment and Development: A Proactive Approach to Building an Institutional Repository, Richard Griscom, Marjorie Hassen, Mary D. Steiner, and Sandra Kerbel

The Institutional Repository at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln: Its First Year of Operations, Paul Royster

Open Source or Off-the-Shelf? Establishing an institutional repository for a small institution, Mark Sutherland and Peta Hopkins

Presentations from 2005

Digital Repository, Institutional Repository, DigitalCommons, Janet G. Johnson, Leah Krevit, and Linda Crays