Browsing by Subject "Institutional repositories"

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    Behavioral data - management, archiving, and sharing: advantages of using a library online repository
    (2011) Snajdr, Eric
    An often-overlooked aspect of scientific research in animal behavior has been the preservation of data and gray literature (unpublished products) that lie behind the scenes of the research.  If preserved, many of these materials could likely be of use to the present and future scientific community.  Institutional repositories of college and research libraries can play an important role in this regard.   Unlike lab web pages, institutional repositories provide a permanent location for research products.  Files are stored in optimal formats and are managed such that access will be possible far into the future.  In addition, repositories provide support for the creation of descriptive information (metadata) for making mounted works findable by others (e.g. through search engines).  Restrictions on access (embargo periods) can be placed. A research lab at Indiana University is using their campus institutional repository to archive data and gray literature from long-term studies on songbird behavior.  Examples of items preserved are protocols, yearly goals, and field notes.  The group is currently working to preserve various data, summaries, and media related to their research.     
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    Building a U.S. Repository Network
    (2022-06-07) Baich, Tina; Shearer, Kathleen
    The U.S. Repository Network initiative is a partnership between the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) and Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) aiming to catalyze a new U.S. network. In its “Modernizing the Global Repository Network Initiative,” COAR identified the need for assistance in breaking down institutional silos and developing a more cohesive approach and greater collaboration around repositories in the U.S. Through a joint COAR/SPARC Visiting Program Officer, the partners engaged an expert group of library/repository professionals as well as the broader U.S. repository community to develop a strategic vision for U.S. repositories. This strategic vision informs the action plan for the U.S. repository network, which is intended to be inclusive of all U.S. repositories. The action plan is structured to advance the various elements of the vision and to ensure the ongoing engagement and sustainability of the network. After discussing the development process and foundational documents, the presenter will share opportunities to further engage in the refinement and execution of the action plan.
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    Building, growing and maintaining institutional repositories
    (Indiana University South Bend, 2014-10-20) Odell, Jere D.
    This presentation reviews a decade of growth in an institutional repository and proposes practical approaches to encouraging and supporting submissions by faculty authors.
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    Completing the Circle: Community Access to Translational Research and Scholarly Works
    (2015-10-12) Odell, Jere D.; Viehweg, Stephan
    This paper documents the development and outcomes of an intra-campus partnership that has changed the culture of scholarship and dissemination at a university that values community-engaged and translational research. Translating Research into Practice (TRIP) was established by Chancellor Charles Bantz and Dr. Sandra Petronio in 2003 to identify, celebrate and promote translational research; research that uses generated knowledge to solve problems and make lives better. In addition to sponsoring awards and convening regular translational research showcases, TRIP started a website and invited faculty members to post descriptions of their translational research projects. In the process, these TRIP scholars provided a public-facing, web-based inventory of scholarship relevant to the community. ScholarWorks, an open access, web-based repository for posting faculty and student articles, theses, proceedings, posters and other creations, was launched in 2004 by the Dean of the University Library. As an open access repository, ScholarWorks gave the campus the ability to share research with a broad community of students, educators, health care workers, policy makers, citizens, and readers without worrying about subscription paywalls or limited access to printed materials. Recently, it became clear to both TRIP and to ScholarWorks that these efforts were complimentary and could be aligned in ways that would increase participation in both programs. In addition, by freely sharing access to the scholarly publications resulting from community-based and translational research projects, the TRIP-ScholarWorks partnership helps to complete the circle of benefits to community, student and research stakeholders. Similar partnerships could be pursued on many campuses.
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    Implementing the IUPUI Open Access Policy
    (2016-05-20) Bahler, Shannon; Calvert, Lisa; Pike, Caitlin; Odell, Jere D.
    On October 7, 2014, the IUPUI Faculty Council adopted an open access policy. The IUPUI faculty have retained their rights to the final manuscript of scholarly articles. The faculty have also given the library permission to archive these articles in the institutional repository, IUPUI ScholarWorks. As with most "Harvard-model" OA policies, faculty members are free to opt out at the article level without explanation. Likewise, waivers from the policy's rights retention clause are provided to any publisher that requires them. In this panel presentation we describe how the library has implemented this policy on the IUPUI campus. In specific we focus on four aspects of the policy implementation: 1) the outreach strategy; 2) the article identification/notification workflow; 3) the deposit workflow; and 4) the evolving role of liaisons in supporting the OA policy. Currently, the results of this multifaceted implementation strategy include: more than 1,400 new submissions to IUPUI ScholarWorks, increased compliance with federal public access policies, and more faculty interest in self-archiving.
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    Open Access Policy Notifications: What Language Works?
    (2022-04-28) Odell, Jere D.; Maixner, Gary; Calvert, Lisa
    In October 2014, the IUPUI Faculty Council adopted a rights retention, opt out, open access policy. In short, the faculty retain rights to their scholarly articles and agree to make the accepted manuscripts available in the institutional repository (IR) or to opt out for each article that they do not make available. IUPUI’s University Library was charged with implementing the policy. The library agreed to deposit works in the IR on behalf of authors when a suitable version can be found or when authors supply one. In 2015, the library developed an open access policy website that explained the policy and gave authors a streamlined webform for participation. Authors can login to the website to either deposit, opt out, or complete a waiver. In addition, on the same site, the library developed a webform to enable the staff to send email notifications to authors. These emails notify authors that their specific article has not yet been deposited or opted out and ask the authors to participate in the policy accordingly. If authors do not respond, they receive two reminder notifications. For the first few years of the policy implementation, the response rate per article hovered above 40% but began to decline in 2019. Compounding this, many authors responded to the notifications incorrectly--for example, by sending the publisher’s final published article instead of the accepted manuscript. To address these issues, the library decided to revisit the language of the notification emails. This poster reports on the results of a randomized comparison of two versions of the notifications.
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    U.S Repository Network Initiative: Progress Report
    (2022-02-25) Baich, Tina
    The U.S. Repository Network initiative is a partnership between the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) and Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) aiming to catalyze a new U.S. network. This progress report covers the time period of September 2021 to February 2022.
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    U.S. Repository Network Initiative: Community Consultation Summary
    (2022-07-08) Baich, Tina
    The U.S. Repository Network initiative is a partnership between the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) and Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) aiming to catalyze a new U.S. network. This summary supplements the U.S. Repository Network Initiative: Progress Report issued in February 2022.