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Item Batch processes for faculty work in an institutional repository(2016-05-25) Borrego, Gilbert; Kehoe, Chris; Roberts, David; Lyon, Colleen; University of Texas at AustinIR managers frequently run into problems with getting submissions into their systems. Getting the word out to campus about the service can be difficult and even interested faculty may not always have time to follow through with uploading their work. Repository staff at UT Austin created a workflow that takes advantage of Creative Commons licenses, publisher copyright policies, and DSpace batch processing to get faculty content into Texas ScholarWorks where it can be found by interested individuals. Over the past two and half years, repository staff have uploaded 1375 faculty publications to Texas ScholarWorks, with an additional 1078 items ready to be ingested. The next step is to work on getting usage statistics out to faculty so they are aware of the impact of adding their work to an open repository. We will discuss the rationale behind this new workflow, the script that we use to check Sherpa/Romeo, the batch processing program we use to prepare content for DSpace, and problems and issues that have come up along the way.Item Beyond Web-based Scholarly Works Repositories: The effect of institutional mandates on the faculty attitudes towards Institutional Repositories(2014-03-25) Tmava, Ahmet Meti; Alemneh, Daniel; University of North TexasIn the last decade there has been a push from academic institutions to encourage faculty to deposit their work in web-based scholarly work repositories, commonly known as institutional repositories (IR). IRs are responsible for collecting and preserving the intellectual works of faculty and students and making them widely available. In light of the ever-evolving landscape of higher education, IRs seek to move beyond the custodial role and actively contribute to the advancement of scholarly communication. Understanding and addressing the issues faced by IRs requires a multidimensional approach that involves all stakeholders including: individual scholars and researchers, academic institutions and librarians, scholarly and scientific society publishers, commercial publishers, and government institutions. However, most researcher (Kim, 2010) agree that the main players are faculty members that can make-or-break an IR. In spite of the fact that IRs are an innovation in scholarly communication they have been met with a resistance from faculty members. Academics have been slow to embrace the concept of IRs, according to recent studies by Primary Research Group (2014), only 5% of journal articles published by the faculty members of the organizations have been archived in the IR. While a range of factors seem to influence use of repositories by researchers there is still no agreement how to resolve the challenge of getting authors to deposit content. The most recent survey by Nicholas et al (2014) suggested that while the size and use of repositories has been relatively modest, almost half of all institutions either have, or are planning, a repository mandate requiring deposit. However, Crow (2002) warned that faculty submission will have to be voluntary or risk encountering resistance from faculty members who might otherwise prove supportive. The current situation of IRs is rather bleak and calls to question the effectiveness of the current ways of recruiting content, including institutional mandates. Nicholas et al argue that mandates vary based on the research community and/or institution. Their findings reveal that none of the participating institutions reported any attempt to force researchers to comply with the mandate and describe the current mandates as more educational rather than binding. The same study concludes that 22 percent of the researchers were directly influenced by mandate to deposit their work, and this varied based on the age. Thus, the hope remains that with the mandates in place the new generation of researchers will get used to the idea of depositing their work. This poster will revisit the content recruitment issues in general. Although there is an extensive body of relevant knowledge, discussions about IRs transformations, they are often based on opinion, and isolated experience of commentators, leaving out the main issue (i.e. institutional policies) and the main players (i.e. faculty). This paper will attempt to assess the effect of institutional mandates on the faculty attitudes towards IRs. We believe that analyzing and spotlighting the possible correlations between and among various factors are pertinent for understanding and shaping the ongoing transformation of IRs.Item Building Trust Together: A Consortium Approach to Open Repositories via DSpace and the Texas Digital Library(2022-06-08) Park, Kristi; Woodward, Nicholas; Lyon, Colleen; Hight, Alexa; Johnson, EmilyThe Texas Digital Library (TDL) is a collaborative consortium of Texas universities that builds capacity among its membership for ensuring equitable access to and preservation of digital content of value to research, instruction, cultural heritage, and institutional memory. TDL hosts DSpace digital repositories for its member institutions, allowing them to provide reliable online access to their scholarly and pedagogic output. TDL supports its members through the TDL Dspace Users Group, an open group for anyone in Texas currently using or interested in DSpace repository software. The User Group benefits members by providing: a forum for discussion and mutual support on issues of concern to DSpace users, a means for the TDL to update members on upgrades, training opportunities, and other DSpace-related work of the TDL staff, and a channel for rebroadcasting any DuraSpace news related to the DSpace software to the Texas DSpace community. The user group benefits by reduced costs through shared IT resources and distributed expertise to better support the creation and management of dspace repositories. In this panel we will discuss the function of the user group, as well as the costs and outcomes associated with a consortium approach to repository management using DSpace.Item Collection Development for an Institutional Repository through Collaborations between Departments(2013-03-26) Randtke, Wilhelmina; Detweiler, Brian; St. Mary's UniversityPoster presentation: St. Mary’s University School of Law’s Sarita Kenedy East Law Library recently launched an institutional repository. The School of Law and law library had no preexisting digital collections. In order to quickly acquire appropriate content, the law library focused on locating born digital materials, such as School of Law publications, which had not previously been formally archived. The law library also attempted to identify digitization performed as part of routine library operations, and to assess digitized material for long term archiving. The law library was able to quickly and efficiently build an online collection for the repository by collecting preexisting born digital material, and assessing for inclusion material provided digitally to professors after conversion from legacy formats such as microfilm, and audiotape. This poster presents on how interdepartmental collaborations provided the framework to populate a digital collection in the absence of resources or equipment dedicated specifically to digitization.Item Directions for Digital Repositories(2010-05-17) Carr, Leslie; University of SouthamptonThe Internet provided a platform for global digital communication; the Web added document browsing and repositories have added persistence and curation. What have we achieved with this multilayered platform in the last decade? And what scope have we for achieving new things? The newly emerging discipline of Web Science tells us that the Web isn't a thing but an activity: the creation of a network of information by a network of individuals. The Web wasn't invented by Tim Berners-Lee, it is being invented by all of us as we gradually adapt our tools and change our practice. In this presentation I will discuss some of the changes that have occurred in the UK and European experience, the changes that we have embodied in the EPrints repository platform, and some of our hopes for changes yet to occur.Item Emerging Trends and Evolving Issues in Open Access and Scholarly Communications(2015-04-27) Alemneh, Daniel; Helge, Kris; Priyanto, Ida Fajar; Tmava, Ahmet Meti; University of North Texas; Tarrant County CollegeThe manner in which scholarly research is conducted is changing rapidly. As researchers continue to produce and share a wide variety of research outputs and scholarly contributions, in new ways, understanding of the factors influencing adoption, how they are being used, their implications for research practices and policy remains limited. This presentation will provide an overview of emerging trends in scholarly communication and the roles of diverse stakeholders ranging from individual researchers, scholars, and library and information professionals to institutions, publishers and professional societies. In light of the increasingly global Open Access movement and the evolving landscape of Scholarly Communication, the panelist will share their preliminary findings of their doctoral researches and further speculate the implication of open educational resources on copyrights, access, and preservation at global level.Item Encouraging Use of Repositories: Student Engagement With Texas Digital Library's Repositories(Texas Digital Library, 2021-05-24) Vernon, EmilyItem From ProQuest to RRP: Expanding Access to ETDs at UTSA(Texas Digital Library, 2024-05-22) Williams, Elliot; Johnson, EmilyIn 2023-2024, UTSA Libraries undertook a project to ingest electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) into its DSpace repository, the Runner Research Press (RRP). UTSA did not have an institutional repository until RRP was launched in 2020, and ETDs were not previously included. Prior to this project, ETDs were housed solely in the ProQuest Theses and Dissertations database, with the library’s Special Collections department housing print copies of theses and dissertations written before 2014. Through this project, nearly 4,000 ETDs from 2008-2023 were ingested into the repository, and librarians worked with the Graduate School to require that, going forward, all theses and dissertations be made available open access in RRP. This presentation will outline the different components of the project from start to finish, particularly focused on developing a workplan, managing external partnerships with the UTSA Graduate School and ProQuest, copyright considerations, metadata issues, process and workflow documentation, and outreach to former students. This presentation will be of interest to anyone at an institution who is collecting ETDs in their repository for the first time or undertaking a large project to add materials to their repository.Item GALILEO Knowledge Repository (GKR): A Collaborative Statewide Institutional Repository(2013-03-21) Givens, Marlee; Georgia Institute of TechnologyIn 2004, a small group of libraries from the University System of Georgia (USG) began discussing the idea of building a collaborative statewide institutional repository (IR). Georgia Tech was just starting SMARTech, a DSpace repository, and since then a number of other libraries around the system have started their own IR projects. In 2009, Georgia Tech was awarded a grant from IMLS to build the GALILEO Knowledge Repository. Goals for this project include building and hosting four new repositories; developing a central repository of standardized, harvested metadata from participating IRs in the USG; creating the open source collection mapping tool; implementing IR-related services such as digitization and content submission; conducting a statewide faculty survey; and hosting a national symposium and workshop on consortial IRs. Marlee Givens, the GKR's project manager, will present GKR as a case study in building and managing a collaborative IR service.Item Here Be Dragons: Navigating the Uncharted Waters of Legacy Thesis and Dissertation Digitization(Texas Digital Library, 2021-05-24) Weidner, Andrew; Wu, AnnieItem Hi DSpace, nice to meet you. I'm Pressbooks.(Texas Digital Library, 2023-05-18) Johnson, Emily; Ivie, DeeAnnIn the past 2 years The University of Texas at San Antonio launched instances of Pressbooks and DSpace to the university community. As the OER and Scholarly Communication Librarians, we were interested in learning more about best practices and workflows at other universities for archiving OERs in institutional repositories. Afterwards, in conjunction with the Library Systems department, we developed a workflow for automatically pushing OERs created in Pressbooks into our DSpace repository using a SWORD protocol. This presentation will describe our findings from the background research we conducted, the process for linking Pressbooks and DSpace, and future work we will be doing in this area.Item Institutional Repositories for Beginners(Texas Digital Library, 2024-05-21) Johnson-Freeman, Whitney; Warrenfells, Ardis; Bussey, JenniferInstitutional repositories (IRs) are home to scholarly material created by faculty, staff, and students, but supporting an IR requires unique skills that set them apart from other parts of a digital library. Our work often overlaps with departments across the library, like scholarly communication or research support, and it means that we are at home everywhere and nowhere. We are also facing unique challenges, like supporting Open Research mandates and fighting publisher over-influence on authors. This presentation will highlight the key skills of working in an IR, from the perspective of the UNT Scholarly Works at the University of North Texas, and we look forward to hearing from others on their experiences.Item Let’s Git Creative: Using GitLab to Improve the Institutional Repository Workflow at the University of North Texas(Texas Digital Library, 2021-05-24) Johnson-Freeman, WhitneyItem Making it useful: Revitalizing a legacy digital service(Texas Digital Library, 2021-05-24) Narlock, MikalaItem Map and GIS Resources in an Institutional Repository : Issues and Recommendations(2007-05-30) Weimer, Kathy; Texas A&M UniversityMap librarians are increasingly digitizing and making available scanned map images over the internet. These digitized map collections are growing quickly in size and number. The issue of access and long term preservation to these scanned map collections is still in the early stages. Libraries suffer from a communication gap between the groups actively scanning maps and their IR staff. This is evident with the number of map scanning registries which are not part of an IR nor larger digital library initiative. The registries are increasing and both overlap and compete with each other. The benefit of an IR over both a basic web presentation and a digitized map registry is clear, due to the Google Scholar search capability and those configured as an OAI-PMH data provider, which result in freely harvested metadata. CNI conducted a survey to assess the deployment of IRs in the United States and among their findings was that nine repositories had map materials in their IR, twelve planned to include maps in the next by 2008. One example of a successful collaboration between a map librarian and IR staff is the Geologic Atlas project at Texas A&M University Libraries. In 2004, the Texas A&M University Libraries deployed dSpace. The Libraries digitized and uploaded the complete 227 folio set of the Geologic Atlas of the United States to dSpace. It was published by USGS between 1894 and 1945, and contains text, photographs, maps and illustrations. This collection serves as a pilot project to study scientific map and GIS resources in an IR, generally, and specifically, the use of geographic coordinates in metadata in building a map-based search interface, and the addition of GIS files in an IR environment. For this set, geographic coordinates were added to the metadata, including “coverage.spatial,” “coverage.box” and “coverage.point”. Fortunately the maps in this set are a very regular rectangle and coordinates were readily available. The map coordinates supported the creation of a YahooMap! interface. Each folio is located on a map of the US and can be readily found with a visual interface. The digitized maps are being converted into GIS files, and will be used to assess feasibility of GIS resources in the IR. These are some excellent examples of advanced geospatial data libraries which can serve as a model: NGDA (National Geospatial Digital Archive- UCSB and Stanford libraries), NCGDAP (North Carolina Geospatial Data Archiving Project), CUGIR (Cornell University Geospatial Information Repository) and GRADE (Geospatial Repository for Academic Deposit and Extraction) project. These groups and others are tackling the issue of long term preservation of GIS data in digital libraries. There are increasing numbers of map resources in digital libraries and IRs. The maps serve an important role in communicating scholarly information. Map librarians should collaborate on scanning standards and metadata creation. Map librarians and digital libraries staff should increase their communication and collaborate in order to improve the access to these collections.Item Measuring Repository Use at Texas A&M University(2017-05-24) Dabrowski, Anna J.; Texas A&M UniversityThis poster concerns usage statistics for Texas A&M University's DSpace repository, OAKTrust. It will describe current data being gathered and reported, the scope and limitations of data types and sources, and undertakings to improve the accuracy and credibility of reported usage.Item Measuring Value and Impact: A Study of the UNT Digital Library Collections(2014-03-13) Waugh, Laura; University of North TexasIn the fall of 2013, the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries conducted a study to investigate the value of their digital repositories as perceived by UNT faculty, staff, and graduate students. The digital repositories include the UNT Digital Library, its UNT Scholarly Works institutional repository collection, and The Portal to Texas History. The research objectives measured the relationship between the perceived value of the UNT Libraries’ digital repositories and the UNT faculty, staff, and graduate students’ scholarly outcomes, awareness of available resources, contributions to date and interest in contributing to these digital repositories. In addition, statistical analysis of university position, rank, department, age and gender are correlated. This presentation discusses the results of this study, the process of measuring value and impact of digital collections, and implications for longitudinal studies and improvements in digital repository services.Item Oregon Digital: Reimagined for Reuse(Texas Digital Library, 2021-05-24) Thornhill, Kate; Petersen, ChrisItem Project Blimunda: Seeing the Unseen(2011-06-08) Pereira, Ana A.; Boavida, Clara P.; Ribeiro, Elsa; Rehemtula, Salima S.; Universidade Nova de LisboaProject Blimunda is an initiative carried out in Portugal, by the Library of the Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Library of FCT/UNL), with the purpose of defining Portuguese scientific publishers and journals policies in relation to self-archiving in Institutional Repositories (IRs). The project arose in the context of the Open Access Scientific Repository of Portugal (RCAAP) and was sponsored by the Foundation for National Scientific Computing (FCCN). After a brief introduction that contextualizes the project, we describe the various stages of the same, as the results achieved and lessons learned. It is hoped that the work can serve as a stimulus and a basis for similar projects involving other countries.Item Providing Effective Information Services for RCN CE3SAR Project(2013-03-21) Xu, Hong; Texas A&M UniversityThe research coordination network (RCN) – Climate, Energy, Environment and Engagement in Semiarid Regions (CE3SAR) is a NSF funded project. The overarching goal of the RCN CE3SAR is to form a robust research, educational and engagement network of regional universities, research centers and institutes. The project has extensive information needs such as project presence, data preservation, digital repositories, scholarly communication, project management, information retrieval, and bibliography service. Texas Digital Library and the library of Texas A&M University – Corpus Christi have played important roles in providing services to meet the needs of the RCN CE3SAR project. This presentation aims to share the experience of providing information services to RCN CE3SAR project from the following aspects: Outreaching RCN CE3SAR team; Identifying the project users’ needs; Providing information services; Engaging the project users; Discussing challenges and opportunities.