Hip to Be Prepared: Tips for Managing Multiple Conferences in Your Repository

Digital Commons@Georgia Southern accumulated almost twenty conferences since its launch in Fall 2013. In addition to conferences, the repository also hosts journals, SelectedWorks author profiles, student research, and other collections. Currently, Digital Commons@Georgia Southern only has a few library employees (including students) working on the repository. In order to sustain and increase the conferences in the repository, the Digital Collections Specialist streamlined processes and discovered the best ways to collaborate with their repository’s clients. In this presentation, find out tips on meeting and training clients, separating the libraries’ from the clients’ responsibilities, creating support materials, etc. Throughout the presentation, examples of different conferences and the ways they utilized their sites will be discussed

Letting the Data Lead the Way: Georgia Southern\u27s Journey with Alternative Metrics

The landscape around alternative metrics has been evolving rapidly. Going from a twitter hashtag in 2011 to a key component in research evaluation at many institutions, metrics that move beyond citation counts and journal impact factor are here to stay. Metrics can now be harvested and applied to research around usage, captures, mentions, and social media, in addition to citations, giving a much more comprehensive and holistic view of impact. These new metrics are also much more timely than citation metrics and can keep pace with new formats much faster than the entrenched, legacy practices. However, as institutions begin to utilize these more modern metrics, they often lead to surprising pathways of discovery and uses beyond what they had originally envisioned. In this panel discussion, Ashley Lowery, Digital Collections Specialist at Georgia Southern University, John McDonald, Associate Dean of Collections for USC Libraries, and Andrea Michalek, President and Co-Founder of Plum Analytics, will discuss the trends in this space, examples of how altmetrics are used in practice, and the somewhat surprising outcomes that they have seen. The attendees will have ample time to ask questions of the expert panel, and will leave with session with a better understanding of how their university could begin to take advantage of these new metrics, and some of the pitfalls to avoid

EBSCO\u27s PlumX and our Institutional Repository (IR): Integration and Impact at Georgia Southern University

In the summer of 2014, Georgia Southern University’s Office of Research & Economic Development acquired PlumX. At this time, the Zach S. Henderson Library staff had already created numerous SelectedWorks faculty profiles in their institutional repository, Digital Commons@Georgia Southern. In order to avoid duplicating work, the Office of Research & Economic Development tasked the presenter with integrating SelectedWorks and PlumX. In this fast learning presentation, GSU’s Ashley Lowery will talk about how the two systems integrate as well as the pros and cons of this integration. She will also discuss the outcomes of marketing PlumX alongside the IR

Instruction Manual for Conferences in Digital Commons@Georgia Southern

The instructional manual is intended to guide conference/program chairs on how to use their Digital Commons site. It provides instructions on the review process and creating/posting a schedule