[Dspace-general] Webcast reminder: Increasing use and content through creative service-repository bundling

[Michele Kimpton]

Dear DSpace community,

The webinar below will feature one of the interesting presentations  
made at the SPARC on increasing use and content of your institutional  
repository through creative services.  If you missed the presentation  
at SPARC, or  would like to here more detail than presented at SPARC  
please sign up below.

best,
Michele Kimpton

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> All About Repositories Webinar Series: Increasing use and content  
> through creative service-repository bundling; the case at University  
> of Nebraska-Lincoln
>
> Wed., April 15, 2009 - 9:00 a.m. PT; 12:00 p.m. ET
>
> There is no fee to attend.
>
> Please register at http://www.education-webevents.com no later than  
> April 14, 2009.
>
> On April 15, the All About Repositories Webinar Series will feature  
> the first online follow up to the successful 2008 SPARC Digital  
> Repositories Meeting. In response to feedback from participants at  
> the meeting, several online events will be organized that explore  
> meeting topics in more detail and anticipate the program of the 2010  
> SPARC Digital Repositories Meeting, to be held in Baltimore,  
> November 8 & 9, 2010. At the April installment in the series, Joan  
> Giesecke and Paul Royster from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln  
> will reprise their presentation on value-added services and delve  
> more deeply into discussion with participants during this one-hour  
> session.
>
> Description:
>
> During its three years of operations, the institutional repository  
> at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) has gathered and posted  
> over 21,000 documents, which together with its hosted ETD collection  
> make it the country’s third largest institutional repository. Usage  
> records also indicate it is one of the busiest, serving up more than  
> 100,000 downloads a month. The repository has also become the  
> cornerstone for a bundle of electronic publishing services developed  
> and provided by the UNL Libraries, which may be seen as the enablers  
> or preconditions of the IR’s successful track record.
>
> To facilitate and accelerate faculty uptake and participation in the  
> IR, services are provided to supplement the “traditional” self- 
> archiving model. UNL call it their “Do It For Me” model, and the  
> terms are basically: send us your publications list, and they will  
> do the rest. The IR staff does article collection, permissions  
> clearing, scanning, preparation of author versions (including  
> typesetting and proofing), and ultimately mediated deposit. More  
> than 90% of the faculty articles in the IR have been acquired  
> through this model. Mediated deposit allows for greater consistency  
> in metadata, file sizes and data integrity, quality control, and  
> copyright/permissions compliance.
>
> There are also services that provide a “running re-sale” to  
> stimulate interest and increase satisfaction among depositors. The  
> UNL IR provides regular monthly usage reports and usage analysis to  
> depositors, which has proved immensely useful in increasing  
> submissions from authors and co-authors who are impressed with the  
> numbers of downloads their articles receive
>
> This Webinar will: discuss UNL practices for content recruitment and  
> document preparation, policies and implementation, staffing  
> requirements, and software customization and design; and consider  
> the central role of the library’s IR in an overall campus strategy  
> for scholarly communication and publication.
>
> The event is an installment of the All About Repositories Webinar  
> Series, presented by the DSpace Foundation, Fedora Commons, Sun  
> Microsystems and SPARC. Each month a new topic or issue of interest  
> to repository communities will be presented in a one-hour online  
> format. All About Repositories Webinar Series will be web cast for  
> synchronous event access, and will also be made available through  
> DSpace, Fedora, Sun and SPARC web sites as an open educational  
> reference for repository users and developers.
>
> All About Repositories Webinar Series: Increasing use and content  
> through creative service-repository bundling; the case at University  
> of Nebraska-Lincoln, with Joan Giesecke & Paul Royster
>
> Wed., April 15, 2009 - 9:00 a.m. PT; 12:00 p.m. ET
>
> There is no fee to attend.
>
> Please register at http://www.education-webevents.com no later than  
> April 14, 2009.
>

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