Scholars’ Mine Update ITCC Open Forum 3/15/2013

What is Scholars’ Mine The Institutional Repository for Missouri S&T Stores and provides open access to the scholarly digital resources of the university community –Faculty publications –Graduate student works –Departmental publications –Conference proceedings Preserves intellectual output

Platform Migration Announced at February ITCC (2/13) meeting that migration would occur between 2/21 and 3/8 Completed successfully

Why Did We Migrate Originally developed in Documentum –Documentum was problematic –No batch processing –No mass updates –Slow and cumbersome processing created continued delays –Any changes or customization required programming

Why Did We Migrate Replacing Documentum with TerminalFour provided an opportunity to address these issues We did not choose TerminalFour because –TerminalFour would require extensive customization –Concern about what would happen when the campus changed content management systems again in the future –Declining IT and Library recourses needed to continue supporting a TerminalFour based repository –Better options were available that were specifically designed for institutional repositories We chose to join the other UM campuses in a system wide repository known as MOspace.

MOspace Hosted in Columbia by Library Systems Platform supported by a staff of 3 Governed by Merlin Digital Projects Committee (MPDC) –Missouri Education and Research Libraries Information Network (MERLIN) Collaborative projects across all the system libraries (catalog, electronic resources, etc.)

MOspace DSpace based repository –Was developed by MIT and HP –Used by over 1300 educational, government, private and commercial institutions Directory of Institutions using DSpace - List.html List.html –Freely available as open source software –Continuous development by the community of users –Largest community of users and developers worldwide –Can manage and preserve all types of digital content

MOspace Our peer institutions using DSpace include: –Georgia Tech - –MIT -

Current Status of Scholars’ Mine Exists as an independent community within MOspace –Our own branding, community structure and content –Our own governance and policies All preexisting URLs are automatically redirected

Current Status of Scholars’ Mine The ability to view content by laboratories and research centers is currently unavailable This content is under review and will be re-indexed to ensure accuracy Functionality provided by campus IT which uses Scholars’ Mine content required redevelopment –Estimated completion by IT is mid-April –The customized search tool and people search (Office of Sponsored programs) –Faculty Web pages Paper listing is currently static The link for “Scholars’ Mine Paper Listing” has been removed The link for departments and labs has been removed –Questions about this can be addressed to Lance Callaway

Moving Forward One of the major problems with the Documentum based repository has been our inability to provide complete lists of faculty publications –With this new platform and it’s added functionality we can begin to address this problem –Through the Spring and Summer we will be conducting a review of faculty publications and add citations for missing publications –As this process progresses we will be contacting Departments and individual faculty directly

Moving Forward To ensure adequate and effective faculty input we are expanding the role of Scholars’ Mine Faculty Advisory Group –This group meets once a semester to aid in planning and to provide advice, comment, and criticism –The ITCC now has direct representation in this group

Moving Forward In late Spring or early Summer the DSpace platform will be updated –Additional functionality will be available –Details on this functionality will be provided at a later date

Demo Time scholarsmine.mst.edu