What's Working with USpace A Four Year Retrospective Allyson Mower Scholarly Communications & Copyright Librarian Marriott Library, University of Utah   IR Day @ USU  September 30, 2009

Archiving creative works is a new focus for USpace Well, for one thing, our running skills are working! This is a painting by a U of U faculty—V. Kim Martinez—and it represents a new direction for us: archiving creative works. This is a new approach, but let me back track a bit and discuss the last four years. From the series Mujeres de Colores by V. Kim Martinez. Used with permission. Archiving creative works is a new focus for USpace

Uspace is "a collaborative project between the libraries at the University of Utah and the University community. Our goal is to collect and archive the intellectual capital of the institution and make these scholarly materials freely available on the Internet"   Since 2005, we've reached 5,000 items across three collections. You can see the collections here: TDs, U Schoalr Works, and EUA. We have an overarching collection development policy that informs Uspace as a whole, but we approach each collection somewhat differently, as you’ll see in the new few slides.

The University has a lot of research output   The University has a lot of research output But first let me say that I think one of the most valuable things we’ve learned is that the U of U has a lot of research output! Probably more than most of us realized.

Scholarly research by the numbers (articles, books...) To start with, here are the number of scholarly works (journal articles, books and conference proceedings) created on a yearly basis at the U since 2004. You can see that in 2005, when Uspace was launched, there were just under 3000 items. It has steadily increased and last year it stood at about 3200 items.

Numbers cont... The number of theses and dissertations has increased with just over 500 created in 2008.

Creative research? Posters? estimate 600/yr   Creative research? Posters? estimate 600/yr How much creative research is produced on campus isn’t thoroughly tracked and neither are posters. We’ve estimated based on conversations with U printing services who prints out most of the posters, that approximately 600-700 a year are created. So, what’s being added?

What's being added .2% of the University's research output in the form of articles at a rate of 200 articles/month   100% of current theses/dissertations from all disciplines 100% of pre-2007 health sciences theses/dissertations    some creative research (primarily musical scores) some university administrative records

From what discipline: journal articles Colleges with 0% or <1% : Business, Fine Arts, Social Work Source: Lisa Chaufty, IR Coordinator, Marriott Lib. Used with permission.  

Publication trends by discipline

And how: journal articles

pros little to no work for the author archive the full-text provide personal organization and preservation service allows us to interact with authors and publishers in a substantial way and work through copyright concerns of all stakeholders: authors, librarians, publishers   cons time-consuming not everything can be archived low return rate

And how: theses/dissertations scan as new ones come in  for older health sciences titles removed binding scanned send permission letter/email  working on transition to eTD process with Grad School   for HS titles: mailed 2300, 12 said 'no', 900 said 'yes', the rest are being processed for main campus titles: letters just starting to be sent

The next four years? mine articles from archiving-friendly publishers   implement a campus archiving/access policy work with IT dept to incorporate USpace into a recently created faculty profile system  finalize eTD transition with Graduate School start archiving material from College of Fine Arts focus on posters  recently licensed Trapeze Media Solutions

Allyson Mower, MLIS Scholarly Communications & Copyright Librarian J Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah allyson.mower@utah.edu (801) 585-5458