1. Beat Them with Carrots: Implementing Strategies to Encourage Deposit
Rebecca Kennison
Director, Center for Digital Research and Scholarship, Columbia University
Repositories Support Project Webinar
January 16, 2013

2. Overview Get out there Appeal to vanity Keep it simple
Become part of researcher workflow

3. Get Out There New student orientations Departmental meetings Workshops
Dissertation preparation
Copyright
Data management
One-on-one conversations

4. Appeal to Vanity Responses to news coverage Usage stats
Social media coverage

5. What Sells
Statistics
Social Media

6. Keep It Simple Solutions to problems Painless self-deposit CV review
One-time sign-off for ongoing content deposit on their behalf

7. Keep It Simple: Solutions

8. Keep It Simple: Self-Deposit

9. … and (Self-)Promote …

10. Keep It Simple: CV Review Workflow
These steps can happen in any order!
Repository Staff Contact Author
Repository Staff Review Author CV
Author Signs Agreement
Author Provides Content
Repository Staff Locate Content
Repository Staff Catalog Content

11. Keep It Simple: CV Review

12. Keep It Simple: Sign-Off

13. Become Part of Workflow
Twitterverse and Google alerts
Author-focused collections (e.g., customized bit.ly)
Regular checks by staff for new content
Reminder s (OA resolutions)

14. Open Access Resolution Workflow
Publication Alert Received
Publisher Policy Reviewed
Reminder Sent to Authors
Repository Staff Catalog Article
Author s Article
Author Confirms OA Deposit
No Response Received
Let the Virtuous Circle Begin!

15. The Virtuous Circle of Self-Deposit
User Deposits Research
Monthly Usage Report Sent
Repository Staff Receive Notification
Content Viewed & Downloaded
Deposit Verified & Cataloged
New Content Indexed

16. Questions?