[Dspace-general] shining stars anyone?

[John Murtagh]

Hi Ingrid,
 
I was talking about this with academics just this week as it seems that
they don't use the URL from the repository in either their CV or their
web pages.
 
What I'm hoping to do in response is to mention in the email message
they receive when they submit an item onto our repository that they can
use the link in their CVs and personal websites. I'm already using it to
remind them to check the download statistics of their papers. See below:
 
# Item Archived email message
#
# {0}  Title of submission
# {1}  Name of collection
# {2}  handle 
#
Subject: BURA: Submission Approved and Archived 
 
You submitted: {0}
 
To collection: {1}
 
Your submission has been accepted and archived in BURA,
and it has been assigned the following identifier:
{2}
 
Please use this URL identifier when citing your submission.
 
You can also find out the download statistics of your submission by
visiting the statistics section of BURA at 
http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/sdum/stats
 
Many thanks!
 
The BURA Team
 
I'm aware of providing an overlaod of information to the user of BURA -
I like the brief emails that are created.
 
John
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John Murtagh 
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From: Ingrid Mason [mailto:Ingrid.Mason at vuw.ac.nz] 
Sent: 08 February 2007 02:28
To: dspace-general at mit.edu
Subject: [Dspace-general] shining stars anyone?



Hi there,

 

I have been trawling the 'net to find an example of an academic, who has
deposited research outputs in an institutional repository and then
linked to these records in the repository (using the handles or even the
URL for the fulltext file) from their personal webpage.  I have been
somewhat surprised to find that academics, that are also enthusiastic
depositors of their research outputs, still seem to be pointing to
locally stored fulltext files, rather than linking to and using the
handles (or URL for the fulltext file) in a repository that they have
deposited their papers in.  Is this because they simply don't have time
to rewrite their webpages?  

 

Does anyone have a shining star that they use to illustrate that this is
a great (and simple) means of highlighting their works within their
personal webpages?  Are there academics around the place that have taken
this opportunity up?  

 

The only example I could find that vaguely fits this category is the
Otago Eprints repository, with a single link from the School of
Business' website to their eprints repository: 
http://www.business.otago.ac.nz/com/research/index.html 

 

There are examples of collections of academic's works within
repositories, does anyone have a few shining stars in this manner too?

 

Examples (and insights) welcomed.

 

Cheers, Ingrid 

 

 

 

Ingrid Mason

Digital Research Repository Coordinator

New Zealand Electronic Text Centre, University Library

Victoria University of Wellington

P O Box 600, Wellington 6140

New Zealand = Aotearoa

 

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em: ingrid.mason at vuw.ac.nz <mailto:ingrid.mason at vuw.ac.nz> 

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