1. Partnering with APS Archive of Teaching Resources
Murray Jensen
Human Anatomy & Physiology Society
University of Minnesota
NSDL Meeting
October 19, 2006
Washington, DC

2. What is HAPS?
Over 1,000 members from 2- and 4-year colleges, universities, and private businesses throughout US and Canada
Allied health professionals (teaching!)
Annual meeting - workshops and up-date sessions
Regional conferences
HAPS-Educator quarterly publication

3. What Teaching Materials Does HAPS Have?
Position Statements
Comprehensive Exam
HAPS-Educator

4. HAPS-Educator Review articles Teaching articles
EduSnippets: teaching ideas
Workshop summaries

5. Why Have a Digital Library?
Society mission to disseminate members’ research and teaching ideas
Greater visibility for Society
Greater visibility for members and their papers or ideas

6. Why Partner with APS? Similar missions for each Society No HAPS server
Low-cost alternative to setting up digital library

7. How Did It Happen? Wrote NSDL grant with BEN and APS
Received support for HAPS liaison and student to catalogue HAPS materials
Received support for purchasing space on APS server to host materials
Worked with APS staff to ensure HAPS identity maintained on APS and BEN sites

8. Cataloguing HAPS Materials
Pdf files made of all back issues of HAPS-Educator
Student catalogued relevant articles
APS validated cataloguing information
Time commitment: 3 months for ~16 years of back issues (2-5 issues/year)

9. Outcomes of Collaborative Project
HAPS instituted ongoing collaboration with APS to participate in APS Archive
Procedures for continuing the cataloguing of HAPS-Educator articles were developed and approved by HAPS Board
Long-term agreement reached for APS to store HAPS-Educator pdf files on server

10. Benefits from Partnership with APS Archive
Web trends data
15 of top 20 downloaded files in APS Archive are HAPS materials
HAPS has a digital library presence
HAPS now part of BEN and the Biological Sciences Pathway, as well as NSDL