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Successful Scholarly Communication at a Small University: Integration of Education, Services, and an Institutional Repository at Valparaiso University
Jonathan Bull,Bradford Lee Eden +1 more
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In this article, the Christopher Center Library Services (CCLS) unit at Valparaiso University (VU) implemented new scholarly communication services utilizing two different components: (1) the education and training of library staff in scholarly communication trends and issues; and (2) the implementation of ValpoScholar, VU's institutional repository (IR) and its associated services.Abstract:
Beginning in 2011, the Christopher Center Library Services (CCLS) unit at Valparaiso University (VU) started implementing new scholarly communication services utilizing two different components: (1) the education and training of library staff in scholarly communication trends and issues; and (2) the implementation of ValpoScholar, VU's institutional repository (IR) and its associated services. These components allowed for new skills to be developed, new services to be delivered, and the library's digital collections to grow with minimal impact to existing services. This model may provide a framework for other small institutions interested in adding scholarly communication services to their existing library services.read more
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Librarians in Transition: Scholarly Communication Support as a Developing Core Competency.
TL;DR: In this article, scholarly communication training developed for librarians at a mid-sized public university is described and two surveys—describing faculty digital scholarship needs and librarian attitudes toward scholarly communication services—are presented.
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Harvesting the Academic Landscape: Streamlining the Ingestion of Professional Scholarship Metadata into the Institutional Repository
TL;DR: The article discusses the pros and cons of this workflow and areas of ingesting that still need to be addressed, including adding full-text items, checking copyright policies, managing student staffing, and dealing with hurdles created by the repository's software.
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Engaged Citizenship through Campus-Level Democratic Processes: A Librarian and Graduate Student Collaboration on Open Access Policy Adoption
Melissa Cantrell,Andrew Johnson +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a case study details a multi-year collaboration between librarians and graduate students at the University of Colorado Boulder aimed at the development and adoption of a campus OA policy.
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From Digital Commons to Scholar Profiles: Implementing a New System to Raise College Academic Distinction
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the role of the institution's institutional repository in supporting on-line learning at the University of Saint Mary's in higher education and its role in digital archives.
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Institutional Repositories: Essential Infrastructure For Scholarship In The Digital Age
TL;DR: The thinking about digital preservation over the past five years has advanced to the point where the needs are widely recognized and well defined, the technical approaches at least superficially mapped out, and the need for action is now clear.
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Understanding Faculty to Improve Content Recruitment for Institutional Repositories
Nancy Fried Foster,Susan Gibbons +1 more
TL;DR: Whatever the particular focus of the university IR, to be successful it must be filled with scholarly work of enduring value that is searched and cited.
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Leading Change in the System of Scholarly Communication: A Case Study of Engaging Liaison Librarians for Outreach to Faculty
TL;DR: This narrative, single-case study examines how liaison librarians at the University of Minnesota came to include advocating for reform of the scholarly communication system among their core responsibilities, and explores the context of these changes, systems thinking, and new mental models.
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Institutional Repositories: Faculty Deposits, Marketing, and the Reform of Scholarly Communication
Ronald C. Jantz,Myoung C. Wilson +1 more
TL;DR: The authors explored faculty deposits in institutional repositories (IR) within selected disciplines and identified the diverse navigational paths to IR sites from library Web site homepages and highlighted the implications for the development of institutional repositories.
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The Role of Reference Librarians in Institutional Repositories
TL;DR: In this article, the role of reference librarians in institutional repositories and open access has been discussed, and the relationship of open access to IRs and the possible roles of Reference Librarians has been examined.