Faedra Wills Digital Creations

Learning Outcomes 1.Learn what institutional repositories are and how they tie in with open access 2.Learn talking points that can be used when discussing the institutional repository with faculty 3.Learn the process for combing a faculty members publication list (CV) and the tools used

What Is An Institutional Repository? *Digital collections capturing and preserving the intellectual output/wealth of a university community in a single location. *The primary goals of institutional repositories are to increase access to research and to provide long- term preservation and storage for the University’s scholarly output. *They are intended to complement, rather than replace, other forms of publication.

Research Commons dspace.uta.edu *Established in 2007 *On the DSpace operating platform *First items into the ResearchCommons were our ETDs * Currently have 22,690 items in the ResearchCommons

Who Can Add Material to the ResearchCommons Faculty GRAs Staff Student Organizations

What Can Be Added to the ResearchCommons *Articles*Lectures *Images*Ebooks *Newsletters*Datasets *Audiovisual materials *Technical and conference papers *Theses and dissertations

Why Should Faculty Add Their Scholarly Works Into the ResearchCommons? 1.Alternative publishing method with no economic barriers to access 2.Immediate access to research 3.A durable URL is provided ensuring their research is permanently available to a global audience 4.Increase the likelihood of having their research cited 5.Fulfills requirements of federally funded grants such as those from the NIH and NSF to publish their research in an open access repository 6.Recruitment and public relations tool

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How Can Faculty Get Started 1.Faculty can upload and curate their own collections or designate a GRA to do so 2.Faculty can upload their own materials with Library staff providing the metadata for their works 3.Library staff can pull the faculty members CV from Mentis and do all the work on their behalf

Final Step or Hi, Dr. Beth Wright would like her CV looked at to see what published items can go into our Research Commons.

Steps for Combing a Faculty Members CV 1.Administrative set-up 2.Check publisher copyright restrictions 3.Add items to the ResearchCommons 4.Contact faculty member with update and request for items 5.Yearly review

Checking Publisher Copyright Restrictions 1.Check Sherpa/Romeo website 1.Check Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) website Check publisher’s website 3.Contact publisher for permission

Thank You! Questions?