1. Use of Digital Commons at Macalester Johan Oberg Digital Scholarship and Services Librarian, joberg@macalester.edu

2. About Macalester College  Small, private, liberal arts college  St. Paul, MN  2,000 undergraduate students  ~90 countries represented  III Millennium  8-school shared catalog

3. Overview: IRs at Macalester  DigitalCommons  CONTENTdm  ArcaSearch (Campus newspaper archive)

4. What the IR Brings to the College  Digital publishing.  Digital archive.  An online scholarship community.  Educational: Student scholarship.  Visibility of scholarly communication issues:  Copyright  Authors rights  Open access  Relationship-building across campus

5. Overview of Content  12 Journals  Conference websites and proceedings  Honors Thesis  Faculty and staff articles and presentations  Videos  Oral histories, Campus presentations, Course Projects Oral historiesCampus presentations  Multimedia E-Book Multimedia E-Book

6. Recruiting Content  Key: Relationships and Collaboration  Student groups  Faculty  Offices on campus  Provost  OA funding for faculty articles

7. Use Trend: Downloads Full-Text February, 2010 – February 2011 2,293 papers to date 267,371 full-text downloads to date

8. Visitors Data and graphics are from Google Analytics

9. Traffic Sources Overview Sept. 1, 2009-March 10, 2011 Data and graphics are from Google Analytics

10. Global Reach 1.U.S.A 2.United Kingdom 3.Canada 4.Germany 5.India 6.Australia 7.Netherlands 8.China 9.France 10.Malaysia Sept.1, 2009-March 10, 2011 Data and graphics are from Google Analytics

11. Collaborative Management  Digital Asset Management Committee  Staff from:  collections, subject liaisons, digital services, archives, and ITS  Broad idea-sharing and recruitment of materials  Scholarly Publishing Committee  faculty/staff editorial board

12. Future  Increasing awareness and visibility of DigitalCommons on campus  Integrate SelectedWorks RSS feeds into campus Web Content Management System.  Better define roles of different IRs on campus.  Mandated open access publishing for faculty

13. Information  DigitalCommons@Macalester.edu DigitalCommons@Macalester.edu  Master Plan found under Library  This presentation will be in our IR – find via Google  Other digital assets via our library home page under Digital Initiatives  Johan Oberg  joberg@macalester.edu joberg@macalester.edu  DeWitt Wallace Library