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Demystifying the Institutional Repository for Success
1st Edition - August 31, 2013
Author: Marianne Buehler
Paperback ISBN:9781843346739
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eBook ISBN:9781780633213
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Institutional repositories remain key to data storage on campus, fulfilling the academic needs of various stakeholders. Demystifying the Institutional Repository for Success is a practical guide to creating and sustaining an institutional repository through marketing, partnering, and understanding the academic needs of all stakeholders on campus. This title is divided into seven chapters, covering: traditional scholarly communication and open access publishing; the academic shift towards open access; what the successful institutional repository looks like; institutional repository collaborations and building campus relationships; building internal and external campus institutional repository relationships; the impact and value proposition of institutional repositories; and looking ahead to open access opportunities.
Presents successful and creative marketing techniques of open access benefits and repositories useful to administrators, faculty, staff, and students
Strategic campus and off-campus partnerships for garnering and archiving content, including metadata specialists, off-campus librarians, local/state collaborations, including case studies
Specific tools for overall success of users in locating repository research (search engine optimization (SEO), analyzing Google Analytics), and more
1: Transcending traditional scholarly communication to open access publishing: why the change?
Abstract
Scholarly communication
Peer-review
Open peer-review
Academic libraries experience research cost inflation
Technical services: staff opportunities to support open access
Evolution of a sustainable open access movement
History of open access to research
Academic and global open access research success
US Government open access and research policy
Research Councils UK: OA research policy
Global open access research support
Summary
2: Academic shift towards open access
Abstract
An institutional repository is launched
Understanding open access benefits
Marketing discipline-specific materials to archive in an institutional repository
Article research permissions and addendums
Additional types of high-value research
Talking points that engage the campus: visibility and accessibility tools
Faculty
Administrators’ IR point of view and documenting academy research
Graduate and undergraduate student opportunities to showcase their research
Asocial marketing approach to garnering content and populating the IR
Social marketing theory
Successful marketing strategies and best practices for garnering IR content
Summary
3: The successful institutional repository
Abstract
Institutional repositories’ internal and external success factors
Specific factors/features that constitute IR success
Institutional repository mandates, their rewards, and deposit methods
There are millions of articles
Content in a successful IR
Primary types of IR materials
Additional types of original research items
Summary
4: Institutional repository collaborations and building campus relationships
Abstract
Acquiring institutional repository content
Staff, collaborations, who contributes, and why
Engagement of liaisons with campus constituencies
Groundwork for patchwork and institutional repository mandates
Academic strategic research plans
Engaging with campus constituencies
What and how subject areas play a role in the IR
Open access journal article processing charges – who pays?
Academic library scholarship and the institutional repository
Summary
5: Building internal and external campus institutional repository relationships
Abstract
Open access article publishing models (gold, green, gratis, libre)
Engaging campus faculty to create gold open access journals
Collaborative library open access publishing strategies
University press and library-integrated open access publishing strategies: a survey of open access journal strategies
University press publishing in the twenty-first century
Institutional repository staff
Institutional repository case study
Technical services staff and authority control
Hosted and non-hosted IR services and systems department support
Institutional repository advisory committee/board
Institutional repository collection development policy
Students and open access opportunities
E-theses and dissertations (ETDs)
Summary
6: Institutional repository impact and value proposition
Abstract
Impact factors
Open access journal citations: disadvantages and advantages
Additional bibliometrics
Measuring the value of an institutional repository
Institutional repositories: funding and staff contributions
The cost of an institutional repository
Value of institutional repositories from an internal and external perspective
Lean Six Sigma Process Improvement approach
Institutional repository value chain approach
The institutional repository value proposition
Business sector value and open access to research
Summary
7: Looking ahead to open access data and textbook opportunities
Abstract
Data and research management legislation
Data curation and management
Data curation definitions
Library support for data curation
Library roles in data management plans
Data management tools
Web scale discovery services
Open education resources and open access textbooks
Open textbook content
Summary
References
Index
No. of pages: 266
Language: English
Edition: 1
Published: August 31, 2013
Imprint: Chandos Publishing
Paperback ISBN: 9781843346739
eBook ISBN: 9781780633213
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Marianne Buehler
Marianne A. Buehler is the Digital Scholarship Administrator and Urban Sustainability Librarian, University of Nevada Las Vegas (UNLV). Prior to UNLV she was the Head of the Publishing and Scholarship Support Center at Rochester Institute of Technology. Marianne has garnered expertise in multiple aspects of scholarly communication for over 12 years, including campus outreach, sustainable processes, managing institutional repositories, open access journal publishing, traditional, open, and self-publishing, and licensing and copyright. She presents and publishes on these topics.