1. Promoting and Preserving FIU Research and Scholarship
FIU Digital Commons
Promoting and Preserving FIU Research and Scholarship

2. Digital Commons is… FIU’s Open Access Institutional Repository
A centralized access point at FIU for research, scholarship, creative works and history
A place where schools, departments, centers and individuals can place their work to
Share it
Promote it
Archive it
digital collection capturing and preserving the intellectual output of a single or multi-university community.
Open Access

3. About our IR System Hosted by Berkley Electronic Press (BePress)
OAI-PMH Compliant
Full Text Searchable
Unlimited storage and quarterly backups
Support services, including web design
Strong Community Support (300+ institutions)
Customizable: Front End Design/Display and Back End Functionality
Online Publishing and Peer Review Management
Administrative Collaboration/Support
Provide Access at collection level to those outside library
Usage Reports
History, Notes
Research Alerts, Follow Management, Share Functions
Administrative Collaboration: Ability to assign administrators from outside the library to maintain and access materials. Administrators can use the system to communicate using notes, and track the history of an item. In addition, administrators can access usage reports at any time. ETDs are an example of this type of collaboration, Jamie will talk about it later
Online Publishing and Peer Review Management: Allows for direct submission by authors to the system, assignment of reviewers already in the system, and final decision. Again, all tracked through the system. Can be used for conferences and other events as well.
Customizable: Front end design for journals and events are eligible for unique design within a template, other collections can include banners, logos, slideshow etc for additional branding. Back end customizable: metadata fields can be unique across

4. Collection Snapshot 10,345 items 1.4+ Million Downloads
414,802 downloads in the past 12 months
Top 3 Collections:
ETDs
Hospitality Review
South Florida Education Research Conference
Talk about readership distribution map

5. Content in FIU Digital Commons
Published articles by FIU faculty
Reports, Presentations, and other grey literature
Journals published through the EdiKit peer review system
Events and Conferences hosted by FIU
Graduate Research - Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Student Work – Biology Undergraduate Honors Theses
Institutional/Historical Documents
SelectedWorks – FIU Faculty Profiles
Our content comes from:
Collaboration with Departments/Schools/Centers: African and African Diaspora Studies, College of Education, Department of Biological Science, FCE LTER
Manual “Harvesting” ie web of science, PLoS
Mediated deposit for individuals

6. Content Example
Point out the record information, the download option the downloads widget and the disciplinary commons, along with share etc.
Cover sheet – when content is discovered via google cover page allows for redirection back to us
Can integrate with other metrics like Altmetrics

7. Benefits of Digital Commons
Allows authors to provide immediate access to their research freely and legally.
Content is search engine optimized increasing discoverability, visibility, citations and the potential impact of an author’s work.
Satisfies many requirements for dissemination of research resulting from grant funded projects.
Provides author/departments with monthly readership reports with download counts.
Serves as a digital archive, providing persistent URLs and preservation copies ensuring long term access to an author’s work.

8. Digital Commons Dashboard
Available for:
The whole repository
Individual Departmental Collections
Authors
Shows:
Readership Distribution
Downloads by Institution, Country, by individual works
Demo on Live Site
Available for:
The whole repository
Individual Departmental Collections
Authors
Shows:
Readership Distribution
Downloads by Institution, Country, by individual works

9. Discipline Wheel Allows users to explore the collections by discipline
3 layered taxonomy
Demo on Live Site

10. SelectedWorks
SelectedWorks combines the individuality of a faculty page with the functionality, content and automation of Digital Commons.
Import from Digital Commons, Opportunity to include biographical information about researcher including an intro paragraph, position, research interests, grant awards, classes taught.
Demo on Live Site?

11. Challenges Facing the Repository
Faculty Participation
Copyright and getting the “right” version
Metadata/ Metadata Clean Up
Faculty Participation: Getting faculty to self-submit or to engage in the process, though those that do are very enthusiastic
Copyright and getting the right version: We have to manually check each item for rights, there are some scripts and work arounds, but metadata needs to be prepared to run those, Also, authors don’t always have the right version either because they didn’t keep it or because they aren’t the lead author etc.
Metadata: Sometimes the authors have the wrong info, we have to transform citations to Dublin Core, we have to make the metadata up completey.

12. Looking Forward
Developing more streamlined workflows to capture metadata and full text content
Broadening the scope of the collection
Expanding our SelectedWorks service