Digital Commons

Open Access Journal Publishing at USF: How We Do It, Why We Do It

The University of South Florida Libraries provides open access journal publishing and support services through their repository, ScholarCommons@USF. In this webinar, Todd Chavez, Director of Academic Resources, explains how his team has successfully launched or migrated eight open access journals, including some with a publishing history of more than 40 years. These efforts have enabled the journals to develop sustainable open access models, and have established USF Libraries as a leader in several strategic subject fields.

This webinar covers both start up and ongoing support for a library-led publishing program and is appropriate for both new and long-time publishing libraries.

Marketing Your IR to Create and Renew Buy-in from Administrators and Faculty

Posting work to a Digital Commons repository can increase dissemination, visibility, and discoverability of scholarly output; effectively demonstrating this to key stakeholders can be a valuable tool in creating long-term buy-in and support for your repository initiative. In this webinar, Erika Gearing, Reference Librarian and repository administrator for Johnson and Wales University's ScholarsArchive, discusses how she has used reports, presentations, and one-on-one contact to successfully generate support from both faculty and institutional administrators. Topics include:

• Identifying and targeting your audience
• Gathering data to support your message
• Using your successes in future outreach and marketing campaigns
• Employing social media strategies

Serving Campus Needs Through the Repository

In this webinar, Isaac Gilman, Scholarly Communications and Research Services Librarian at Pacific University, discusses how CommonKnowledge (Pacific University's institutional repository) provides an array of services to the campus. The webinar takes a case study approach, focusing primarily on the library's work with the College of Health Professions, which recently passed an OA resolution, publishes a journal through the IR, and supports the dissemination of student work.

Institutional Repositories: Solving Problems for Law Schools

Is your legal scholarship achieving its full value in its current form? Is there a cheaper, better way to publish student-edited law journals? Todd Melnick, Associate Librarian for Public Services at Fordham Law School Library, shares how his library has utilized an institutional repository as a response to these and other timely questions facing law schools today.

Over the last two years, Fordham Law Library has developed its institutional repository to include the archives of its 6 law reviews and over 6,000 open access items. Todd discusses the surprising results of making this work digital and open access, and also covers the distributed management model used to enable law review editors to do the lion's share of the archiving work.

Challenges and Opportunities for Medical Institutional Repositories

Thomas Jefferson University Library and University of Massachusetts Medical School Library have two important things in common: successful institutional repositories and experienced library leaders that developed them.

Dan Kipnis and Ann Koopman of Thomas Jefferson University, and Lisa Palmer of University of Massachusetts Medical School discuss institutional repositories (IRs) at medical schools in this webinar.

Speakers explore how each organization decided to start an IR, how the IRs have evolved, unique IR collections, successful partnerships, challenges and opportunities, and the future of medical IRs.

Building Content by Building Community: Engaging Faculty at Cornell's ILR School

Jim DelRosso, Web and Digital Projects Manager at Cornell ILR's Catherwood Library, kicks off the 2011-2012 Digital Commons Community Webinar Series by sharing strategies that have helped DigitalCommons@ILR achieve over 66% participation from faculty. Topics include:

• Creating interest and a sense of ownership of the IR among faculty
• Whom to approach and how
• Developing effective outreach and workflows
• Sustaining faculty participation over the long term

Digital Commons @ UGA School of Law: A Cornucopia of Content

The University of Georgia law library has one of the most long standing and successful law repositories in the world. With the leadership of Carol Watson, DigitalCommons@University of Georgia School of Law regularly delivers a wide and impressive range of open access legal scholarship to a global audience.

They are not alone. Almost 30 law schools have followed their lead and established their own law-specific repositories in the past 3 years. As law repositories grow exponentially, more and more law libraries are looking for guidance – to make the case, to plan smartly, to staff efficiently, and most of all, to ensure and increase buy in every year.

In this webinar, Carol explores strategies for creating and developing an institutional repository at a law school, including building repository content beyond faculty scholarship.

Supporting and Showcasing Undergraduate Research through the Institutional Repository

A growing number of liberal arts college libraries are using their own institutional repositories to capture student works and foster student research. This webinar addresses the topics of:

• Collecting and managing student works: undergraduate major papers, capstone and research projects
• Campus based publishing: creating and publishing peer-reviewed student-run scholarly journals
• Capturing and showcasing student events, student research conferences and workshops

Digitally Archiving your Law Reviews: from Planning to Population

Last year, the William & Mary law library uploaded 5,000 documents to their institutional repository in little over 3 months. The documents include the complete archives of five law reviews, spanning more than 50 years of scholarly publications. Over the last year, these collections have garnered more than 400,000 downloads from a global audience.

Lauren Seney and Linda Tesar, who led the effort to archive W&M’s law reviews, share their experiences in this webinar. Topics include: essential components, best practices, and strategies for archiving law reviews online.

Institutional Repositories and Scholarly Publishing Platforms for Liberal Arts Colleges

A growing number of liberal arts college libraries, including the Claremont Colleges, Wesleyan University, and Colby College, are managing their own institutional repositories (IRs) to preserve and showcase the intellectual output of their institutions.

Topics include:

• Collecting and managing student works: Graduate work, undergraduate major papers and research projects
• Showcasing faculty scholarship: Publications, presentations, research and reports
• Campus based publishing: Peer-reviewed scholarly journals by faculty and students
• Managing the content of events, conferences, workshops, and lecture series