Notes from March 15, 2011 - Giving Undergraduate Research a Worldwide Voice: Institutional Repositories as Publishers

Just some notes from the March 15, 2011 - Giving Undergraduate Research a Worldwide Voice: Institutional Repositories as Publishers conference. Yes, I do take notes on my netbook via google docs.

I will link to the slides if/when they are loaded on the web.

Undergraduate research

• library as publisher
• scanning primary materials
• students write papers on primary materials; student papers are added to primary content (collection)
• library connecting scholarship to works - completing circle
• Community outreach

Interesting examples:
scholarship at claremont
cgu mfa exhibits (example of multimedia)
MIrA/LOOK Exhibit: New Visions for Architecture in Holyoke

Types of materials in repositories

• Capstone projects in addition to theses & dissertations
• works in repository can be part of CV
• ejournals - combining undergraduate research papers to produce a journal
• multimedia: combining research such as papers combined with GIS (Colby College)

Looking at traditional publishing model:

• Being able to instantly publish once reviewed
• Workshops/Events Publishing/Conference papers

Advantages of using a repository:

• students can learn scholarly process
• visibility approves (library, university, research, everything)
• becomes part of CV
• student publications used for teaching & research
• shows success of students
• recruitment
• gives library stamp of quality (trust)
• branding
• enhances discoverability /provides context
• maximizes resources & services
• higher quality of design
• seo
• preservation/stewardship
• faster publishing processing

google analytics can be used for repository

OCLC / ContentdM
sharing metadata
Content: db of architectural slides
providing global exposure

production of knowledge

• derive new discoveries and relationship
• discoverable, searchable, and malleable repositories - (sounds like mashups)
• IRs need to be integrated into flow of scholarly communication
• social production of knowledge
• technologies accelerate data collection & analysis
• tools & connectivity democratize process (hmm... for those who have technology and resources...)
• attention paid to an event or report accumulates
• social citation (reference from twitter or other social media)
• social currency
• twitter affect
• new knowledge creation
• record of knowledge

IRs

• success at local level
• increasing visibility of collections at network level (e.g., capitalize on googling)
• scalability & sustainability
• catalog once; share broadly

Worldcat digital gateway Over 1 billion records
can upload to worldcat.org and map to marc

OhioLink Dspace project (groundlevel view)

• opportunity to create, not just support
• points to ponder: total cost of operation, time to market, speed of new project initiative

Institutional repostories (clifford lynch article)

DrC project

• Don’t have the luxury of building a complete product - increase product development cycle
• keep process simple and flexible as possible ; broad spectrum of use case scenarios & administrator ability (knowledge skills)
• Hob and spoke
• remote submission
• web based
• solve bland problem before BRAND problem
• libraries want Dspace to look like the rest of their website
• Hosting 39 academic institutions; 32 separate instances
• metadata application profile updated
• Registry of open access repositories

Cloud computing> extracting service from hardware
(D space) interested in a national consortium

Illinois Wesleyan (bpress)

• senior students review in bpress
• privacy concerns; not everything may need to be open access

Undergraduate research from a faculty views

• How does undergraduate research benefit faculty?
• Undergraduate research journals can be used as part of tenure process (publication)
• Enhance faculty’s own research if students are involved
• Finding qualified faculty reviewers/mentors for discipline
• Faculty time
• perception of impact on teaching and faculty’s own research

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