Current as of April/May 2013 A repository service collaboration between the University Libraries and ITS ScholarSphere: What It Is & What It Can Do for Students https://scholarsphere.psu.edu [Names of presenters] Current as of April/May 2013 Title is optional – tailor for specific audience of students, perhaps

What is ScholarSphere? What does it do? How does it help YOU? Overview: access, preservation, compliance Student uses of ScholarSphere ScholarSphere Demo User support Upcoming features Q & A

First, ScholarSphere is . . .

. . . a collaboration between University Libraries – the service owner (incl. user support/feedback) Departmental home in the Libraries is Publishing and Curation Services ITS (Digital Library Technologies) – oversees feature/infrastructure/storage development & maintenance

ScholarSphere is a service Upon deposit, persistent URL is generated Collects one’s work in one location to create a durable and citable record for papers, presentations, publications, datasets, as well as reports & other documentation, capstone projects, audio & video files

ScholarSphere enables access Facilitates sharing research with a worldwide audience - i.e., open access research (research is immediately searchable/discoverable via Google & other search engines)

ScholarSphere = preservation service Bit-level checking (scheduled & on- demand verifications of deposited works) Version control Tracks versioning (retains, can revert) Regular file backups, and replication to disaster recovery sites Provenance – all actions are logged for audit trails

ScholarSphere helps researchers manage their data Satisfies requirements of grant agencies (e.g., National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, National Endowment for the Humanities) to … provide long-term preservation of, and access to, federally funded research data

But what might scholarSphere mean to you - AS STUDENTS?

Student Uses of ScholarSphere To showcase – and share – the best of your coursework and projects. Why? Online portfolios Prospective employers Prospective graduate school programs Discoverability Makes for good research practice habits Long-term preservation for long-term access These are only some student uses – you may conjure others that are more relevant or on point.

ScholarSphere helps you Get a head start . . . on your professional online presence

For this slide, a suggestion: insert a screen capture of a professional web site (belonging to library faculty member, or faculty member). An example: http://patriciahswe.net Optional slide (in case you want to provide an example of a professional website)

For this optional second slide re: professional website (curating one’s professional presence) – could insert screen capture of list of works that are in ScholarSphere. Example: http://patriciahswe.net/?page_id=13 Optional slide (in case you want to provide an example of a professional website – perhaps one at which list of publications or presentations link back to a repository service)

Pre-Demo highlights Of ScholarSphere

Some ScholarSphere Quick Facts Just log in (no need to create an account) Upon initial login, personal dashboard is created Only 4 types of metadata (description) required - title, creator, keyword, rights. Entering more metadata is recommended – enhances chances of discoverability. Any type of file can be uploaded to – text, images, data sets, audio, video, presentations, etc. Currently: 200MB maximum for individual file upload; 500MB maximum total upload for folder of files (Chrome) Default is “open access” – immediately searchable/discoverable via Google, Bing, Yahoo, etc.

Live ScholarSphere Demo

New features & activities in spring/summer 2013 Collections functionality Deposit by proxy (deposit “on behalf of”) Dropbox for ingest of files & folders larger than 500 MB Activities Usability testing in July – recruiting faculty and students to be test users ScholarSphere Users Group

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