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1 Personal Archiving within the Scholarly Workflow: Zotero as connector for collecting faculty work Smiljana Antonijević Ellysa Stern Cahoy Penn State University PDA 2014 Indiana State University

2 Mellon-funded study Phase I: 2012 – 2013 Methodology: web-based survey ethnographic interviews Sciences, humanities, social sciences

3 How do faculty create, manage, share, and archive personal information collections? Is there a natural place to integrate personal archiving in the online scholarly workflow?

4 Survey Results

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9 Inaccessible files

10 Publications perceived as longest-lasting contribution. Thinking about preservation in terms of end products.

11 Preservation is a task of publishers, scholars, and professional organizations.

12 Scholars’ personal archiving practices reflect broader issues in academia: -lack of training -lack of workflow awareness -lack of reward

13 Phase II: 2014-2016 Partnering with George Mason University and Zotero. Integrating personal archiving into the online workflow. Connecting discovery to the scholarly workflow. Examining the impact of Zotero enhancements on the Humanities user’s workflow.

14 Phase II: 2014-2016 Partnering with George Mason University and Zotero. Sean Takats, Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, George Mason University Penn State and George Mason (Zotero) Developers Creating a pluggable backend for Zotero that will allow any institutional repository to draw in content from Zotero

15 Phase II: 2014-2016 Integrating personal archiving into the online workflow. Connecting Zotero with Fedora institutional repository built on a Hydra-based platform. Users will claim self-authored publications via Zotero and deposit into ScholarSphere from Zotero interface. scholarsphere.psu.edu

16 Phase II: 2014-2016 Integrating personal archiving into the online workflow. Project will generate open source code and an open source API for other IR software (Eprints, Dspace, Islandora) scholarsphere.psu.edu

17 Phase II: 2014-2016 Connecting discovery to the scholarly workflow. Journal article (new content) RSS feeds will be added in Zotero. Users will be able to select feeds most pertinent to their research areas / needs.

18 Phase II: 2014-2016 Examining the impact of Zotero enhancements on the Humanities user’s workflow. Repeating research methodology From first phase of study (2012-13) with Humanities / Zotero users Discerning the impact of new enhancements (discovery and self- archiving) on Zotero user patterns. Does the addition of discovery and self- archiving in Zotero help further unify the scholarly workflow? Does it increase self- archiving?

19 Thank you! www.scholarlyworkflow.org www.scholarlyworkflow.org scholarlywork@psu.edu #scholarly_work


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