1. McMaster University Library & Digital Commons

2. Agenda What is Digital Commons? Theses/Dissertation Submission
Journal Publishing
Peer Review Process
Taxonomical Structure
Bepress/McMaster Relationship

3. What is Digital Commons?
Hosted repository platform
Setup Fall 2006
Presentation
Preservation

4. What are we doing with Digital Commons
Publishing Scholarly Journals
Publishing eBooks
Publishing Theses/Dissertations
Publishing Student Research

5. Features Sound/Video, Datasets, Executable files OAI-PMH Compliant
LDAP Integration
Full-text searching

6. Theses/Dissertation Submission
Pilot – 2 Phases
Phase 1
Deposit theses/dissertations once the entire process is finished
Student or SGS is responsible for deposit
“Administer” of collection ensures proper metadata entries - published
2 Theses/Dissertation collections – Proquest collection – Open Disserations

7. Theses/Dissertation Submission
Pilot – Phase 2
Student deposits theses/dissertation
“Administrator” assigns editor (Faculty Advisor)
Editor assigns reviewers
Reviewers review!

8. Theses/Dissertation Submission
Editor makes a design based on reviews
Theses/Dissertation is published

9. Journal Publishing Process Journal has interest
Meeting/Memorandum of Understanding
Forms!
Mockup
Training, training, training

10. Journal Publishing Process, cont. Launch!
Ongoing support & maintenance

11. Peer Review Process Process Article is submitted
Editor assigns article to other editors
Reviewers are assigned
Reviewers review
Editor makes decision

12. Peer Review Process Process, cont. Editor(s) makes a decision
More reviews/revisions
publish

13. Taxonomical Structure
Departments
Research Centres and Institutes
Journals
Faculty (Selected Works)
Open Dissertations and Theses
Dissertations and Theses

14. Taxonomical Structure
Departments
Faculty of Science
Faculty of Social Sciences
Faculty of Engineering
Faculty of Humanities
Faculty of Health Sciences

15. Taxonomical Structure
Departments, cont.
Below Faculties – Departments
Departments
Publications
Theses/Dissertations
Datasets

16. Taxonomical Structure
Research Centres and Institutes
McMaster University Libraries
Office of the Provost
School of Graduate Studies
Science and Technology for Archaeological Research
The Works of Richard Sylvan

17. Taxonomical Structure
Journals
Bridges
Early Theatre
Eighteenth-Century Fiction
Energy Studies Review
Esurio
Global Labour Journal

18. Taxonomical Structure
Journals, cont.
NEXUS
Perceptia
Russell: the Journal of Bertrand Russell Studies
The McMaster Journal of Communication

19. Bepress/McMaster Relationship
New Releases/Update
Google Group
My Role
Bepress support
Training

20. Contact
Nick Ruest
digitalcommons.mcmaster.ca