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Newsletter Helps Maintain Repository Momentum at Butler
Digital Minute Newsletter Highlights Contributors and Brings in New Ones By Brad Matthies, Head of Access Services, Butler University Irwin Library Too many times in my career I’ve seen great...
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Authors’ Rights Education at USU Leads to Increased Faculty Interest in...
Although a collective groan is often heard when the words “copyright” and “authors’ rights” are uttered, there are effective strategies you can use to engage faculty and students in these important...
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Highlighting Global Readership to Promote the Institutional Repository
University of North Florida Library’s Jeff Bowen recently built a dynamic LibGuide for Digital Commons@UNF that pulls automatic updates of both content and images from the IR to the LibGuide using RSS....
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Syndicating Content From the Institutional Repository to Complete Department...
UMass Medical School Takes Advantage of RSS Feeds Lisa Palmer, IR Librarian at UMass Medical School, utilizes RSS to provide low-overhead, automated feeds of faculty’s repository content to departments...
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Institutional Repository “A-ha” Moments
We often hear about “a-ha” moments. For an IR administrator, an “a-ha” moment is one of those times when you are able to demonstrate the benefits of your IR to people outside of your library and see...
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Ideas for Celebrating Open Access Week
Later this month, academic libraries around the world will celebrate Open Access Week. Now in its sixth year, this annual event is a great opportunity to publicize and educate faculty, students and...
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Community Engagement and Open Access: A Natural Partnership at the University...
At the University of New Orleans, several campus health and safety centers use ScholarWorks@UNO to house and share their research and reports, supporting the health and safety of the community by...
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Kickstarting the OA Conversation with Faculty at UWM
To build interest and entice people to attend an upcoming OA Day on the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee campus, the staff of the UWM Libraries created a fun and compelling slideshow that compared...
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Trial Reenactment Draws Alumni and Donors to Santa Clara Law
To celebrate the school’s centennial anniversary and recreate their origins, Santa Clara Law staged a reenactment of the famous Clarence Darrow trial. The event used real-life judges, attorneys, and...
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Graduate School Journal Answers Accreditation Requirement for University of...
Many accreditation standards require institutions to demonstrate that they are connecting faculty, students, and alumni with the greater disciplinary community. Online publishing can be an ideal way...
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Open Access ETDs: Providing Readership and Opportunities for Graduate Students
With USETDA coming up later this month, we thought it would fun to share this blog post we ran across recently by Dr. Danny Kingsley of the Australian Open Access Support Group. More and more...
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Jump-starting Open Access Week at Your Library
Open Access Week is coming up fast– do you know what your library is doing to celebrate? Now in its sixth year, the annual event is a wonderful opportunity to educate students, staff, and faculty on...
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Open Access Week Ideas and Inspiration
Still not sure what you’re doing to celebrate Open Access Week at your library? Not to worry. We’ve rounded up some more examples of other Digital Commons subscribers’ plans to get you excited and...
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Digital Commons Collaboratory Now Includes Annual Reports
We’re now collecting annual reports about institutional repository and scholarly communication initiatives at Digital Commons libraries. Iowa State University’s Harrison W. Inefuku suggested that the...
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Passed Over by Traditional Print Publishers, Faculty Book Flourishes in...
“Without Terri Fishel’s offer to publish Captive Audiences / Captive Performers online, and her support throughout the long publishing process, this book might never, perhaps, have seen the light of...
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Winter/Spring 2015 Line-up of Free bepress Webinars: Register Now!
We are delighted to share our winter/spring 2015 line-up of webinars on developing successful institutional repositories and scholarly communication initiatives. Presented by librarians from...
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Brockport Report Engages Whole Campus in IR Success
Digital Commons @Brockport’s new report “The Journey from 1,000 to 1,000,000: Digital Commons @Brockport 2012-2015” shows the value of the IR to the entire campus community, showcasing highlights of...
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2015 IR All-Star: Dan Kipnis, Thomas Jefferson University
Dan Kipnis, Senior Education Librarian and Editor of the Jefferson Digital Commons at Thomas Jefferson University, is an all-star for his outstanding outreach and marketing, among his many other...
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Announcing the Teaching Commons: A Portal for Open Educational Resources
Bepress is thrilled to announce the Teaching Commons, a new discovery portal of open educational resources. This portal includes everything from open access textbooks, syllabi, course sites, videos of...
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Open Access Week Ideas from the Digital Commons Community
Are you still brainstorming ways to celebrate Open Access Week this October 19-25th? The Digital Commons community has set the bar pretty high in recent years, which means you have some great ideas to...
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