Your Research, Your Teaching, Your Repository Dorothea Salo Digital Repository Librarian

What is ? UW System’s digital archive UW System’s digital archive – –Open to the Web Research and instructional materials Research and instructional materials –Digitized –Born-digital Format-independent Format-independent

What does it do? 1. Captures –Directly from faculty and staff –Through simple web interface 2. Describes –Citation information, keywords, abstracts... –Citable, unbreakable URLs 3. Distributes –Full-text searchable –Crawled by Google, Google Scholar, OAIster, others 4. Preserves –Large-scale, stable, managed long-term storage –Format migration –File integrity

How does it help? Expanded reach Expanded reach –Fast dissemination anywhere with a connection –More readers = more citations! Stability Stability –Safer than your personal hard drive or web server! –We’ve always cared for books; now we care for files too

Frequently Asked Questions “What about copyright?” “What about copyright?” –Many publishers allow self-archiving –Consider “author addenda” also “Can it do web pages?” “Can it do web pages?” –Static, yes; dynamic, no “What are the best formats to use?” “What are the best formats to use?” –Open, documented, non-proprietary formats best staff can advise and assist staff can advise and assist

Contact your campus representative! Contact your campus representative! Campus not listed? Contact Dorothea Salo. Campus not listed? Contact Dorothea Salo. How do I start? Eau Claire: Colleen McFarland, Green Bay: Marlys Brunsting, LaCrosse: Bill Doering, Madison: Dorothea Salo, Milwaukee: Michael Doylen, Parkside: Nick Weber, River Falls: Heidi Southworth, Stevens Point: Terri Muraski, Stout: Carol Hagness, Superior: Debra Nordgren, Whitewater: Dianne Witte, UW-Colleges: Mark Rozmarynowski,

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