2. Not only because of the Olympics this month but because this Chinese proverb expresses what I believe the outcomes will be for us today—some will have an awareness of library initiatives, others will become involved in promoting these initiatives. Each of us can recognize opportunities and embrace challenges to promote library services.

3. TopSCHOLAR™ and SelectedWorks™
Forging New Paths of Information Access and Research
Presented by
Connie Foster
Council of Academic Deans
September 9, 2008
So we look briefly at an update to TS and examine and create a SW site

4. TopSCHOLAR™: Year (plus 3 months) in Review
990 papers; 11,765 downloads
Houston, we have contact
with the Graduate Studies Office...

5. TopSCHOLAR™: Year (plus 3 months) in Review
990 papers; 11,765 downloads
Houston, we have contact
with the Graduate Studies Office …
29 theses
A significant breakthrough by working with Graduate Studies to revise the thesis distribution sheet and streamline process for students as well as create an awareness of the public access. Additionally, I am sending s to the thesis committee as a way to contact faculty about TS potential for their own research.

6. TopSCHOLAR™: Year (plus 3 months) in Review
990 papers; 11,765 downloads
Houston, we have contact
with the Graduate Studies Office…
29 theses
33 series, representing over 200 authors

7. TopSCHOLAR™: Year (plus 3 months) in Review
990 papers; 11,765 downloads
Houston, we have contact
with the Graduate Studies Office…
29 theses
33 series, representing over 200 authors
2 electronic journals
The International Journal of Exercise Science is one of the big successes for TS downloads and for student engagement. Sometimes outcomes in our Library lives are huge, but not so important at other levels. Nevertheless, this journal by Scott Lyons and James Navalta is into its 3rd issue. Their site has their most popular papers and they have designations for student authors and faculty contributors.
The Journal of Outdoor Recreation Education and Leadership is coming. Raymond Poff is technology manager and is marketing it through 2 professional associations on a subscription model basis, which is possible through TS.
Remember TS is a publishing platform as well as a repository.

8. Most frequent downloads
Student Honors Theses and Areté, primary sources in Library Special Collections, student research presentations, and The International Journal of Exercise Science
NEW to TopSCHOLAR™
Searching within and across repositories
Features at the bottom like At a Glance (Top 10 Most Popular Papers and Recent Additions) and Paper of the Day
And now the path to SelectedWorks™ Authors Gallery…

9. Sample SelectedWorks Site
2 samples of established sites just to show branding

10. Sample SelectedWorks Sites

11. SelectedWorks™ at WKU
Uploads research in one place for TopSCHOLAR™ and SelectedWorks™ with library support
Presents and preserves works in a clean, concise, and consistent manner across SelectedWorks sites and at WKU
Gives students the ability to identify and link to faculty research.
Posts and shares your scholarship as part of syndication with ResearchNow
Organizes work by document type or subjects
Highlights your specializations
Through the TopSCHOLAR™ Management Committee and discussions with the dean and the former marketing coord., we have a plan and focus to market SW in the very near future and have already tapped some early advocates for the “gallery”

12. Allows full-text indexing in Google for increased visibility as
priority hits in a search.
Provides a simple URL:
as a default.
Enables links to departmental and personal web pages.
Resolves copyright issues and infringements through library support.
SelectedWorks means that you can access your site anywhere, anytime, archive your work, and personalize
your site.
Do it yourself at or let
us jumpstart you by ing
Most important is the students’ ability to see professors works in full-text, not just as citations on a resume
Also, faculty become part of a larger ResearchNow network at works.bepress.com and can generate interest (and invitations to interview or serve as experts) through their subjects or areas of specialization

13. While this is a screen shot showing the enhancements, we will go live a bit later and see how SW fits into this repository. When I presented on a panel at NASIG earlier this summer with the President of bepress, he said the enhancement was based on the Golden Triangle of design.

15. The SW author gallery so far

19. Getting Started (DIY) Go to http://works.bepress.com/ and hit “Start”
Promotional code: scholarship
The site we establish or direct faculty to. The big green button

20. Relationship between TopSCHOLAR™ and SelectedWorks ™
If we upload content to TopSCHOLAR™ , that content can be reposted or harvested into the faculty’s
SelectedWorks™ site
If faculty upload research to SelectedWorks™,
we can repost to TopSCHOLAR™

21. DIY (do it yourself) or DIFY (do it for/with you)
DIY (do it yourself) or DIFY (do it for/with you) ? The choice is yours; the results are compelling
Access works.bepress.com
Be ready to upload a photo(135x180) (optional); convert a CV to pdf (
Have files ready to upload or the system pulls content immediately from TopSCHOLAR™

22. Strategies and Focus SelectedWorks
Library faculty contact their dept. liaisons
Information at dept. meetings, personal contacts
Letters, brochures, follow-up appointments
3rd year faculty; highly visible faculty
Distinctive programs
Collaboration with FaCET and IT for faculty sessions to build SW sites
Press release and PSA
Our strategies and focus involve many ways of promotion
SelectedWorks™
New faculty orientation packets.
Schedule workshops through FaCET for sessions on TopSCHOLAR™ and SelectedWorks™.
Assign librarians to contact faculty who already have content in TopSCHOLAR™ and develop a personalized letter for use about SelectedWorks.
Review list of 3rd year faculty for building sites
Each library liaison will send a short, personalized note about SelectedWorks.
Each library liaison will follow up with print brochure and for appointments.
Prepared press release for soft launch September 15, 2008

23. Strategies and Focus TopSCHOLAR™
Make personal contacts
Identify top-level scholars for early adoption.
Send letters based on lists and specific areas
Schedule follow-up appointments after distribution
Make personal contacts.
Identify top-level scholars for early adoption.
Prepare a list for Library Faculty and the Dean to contact.
Send a letter to the Centers staffs with positive comments about their efforts and promote these University and Library-based initiatives.
Identify key programs like Folk Studies, print Journalism, gifted studies, recombinant genetics, etc., as another checklist for contacting faculty.
If need further focus, arrange appointments with directors of Institutes, Centers, and department heads.
Monitor progress with all of the initiatives.
Incorporated e-theses into the Graduate Studies thesis guidelines. Monitor progress with number of uploads.
Continue to promote TopSCHOLAR™ as a publishing platform by highlighting current e-journals and their success, not only for journals but also for conference proceedings, working papers, and previously unpublished works.

24. The Opportunity, The Challenge
TopSCHOLAR™ is a repository of intellectual efforts, as well as a publishing platform. Much more can be captured in terms of conference proceedings, working papers, presentations, grant-funded projects, etc.
SelectedWorks™offers faculty the oh-so-simple option of a professional web site for research endeavors without using a “big red” button. It is that simple.
Our challenge: promote, discuss, build.

25. “The process, the outcomes, and especially the passion of discovery enhance the meaning of the effort and of the institution itself.”
Charles E. Glassick et al., Scholarship Assessed
(San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, 1997), p.9.