ScholarSpace UHM’s Institutional Repository Kathleen Luschek Spring 2016 LTEC 690

agenda ●what is an institutional repository? ●ScholarSpace intro ●let’s talk about Open Access ●how to deposit your work in ScholarSpace

what is an institutional repository? a system that provides a home for research output a database system that manages, stores, + provides access to digital content

UH Manoa

ScholarSpace homepage

basics of ScholarSpace DSpace software URI file format long-term preservation search functions organization/hierarchy

hierarchy Community Sub-community Collection Item Collection Sub-community Collection Item Collection Item

top-level communities

sub-communities + collections

search

metadata

why an institutional repository? showcase our research provide long-term storage centralization of digital collections expand reach and exposure of researchers’ work recapture an institution’s intellectual content from commercial publishers support Open Access

open access “Open-access (OA) literature is digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.” -Peter Suber, Open Access Overview

goal of OA goal: provide global Open Access to peer-reviewed research how we reach it: self-archiving OA journals (PeerJ, PLOS, DOAJ, the Winnower, RIO, SAGE, OLH) subject + institutional repositories Open Access policies

now it’s your turn! 1.finish your project 2.consolidate files 3.select descriptive keywords (metadata) 4.think about a Creative Commons license 5.log in to ScholarSpace 6.fill out the form 7.submit!

creative commons??

the license breakdown

in case you’re not convinced...

log in

select collection + describe

licenses

thank you! questions, comments, resources? Kathleen Luschek