eScholarship@UMMS Brochure

Brochure and poster created to promote eScholarship@UMMS, UMass Medical School\u27s digital repository and publishing system for research and scholarship, which is managed by the Lamar Soutter Library. The intended audience is faculty, researchers, staff, and students at UMass Medical School

eScholarship@UMMS Flyer

Flyer and poster created to promote eScholarship@UMMS, UMass Medical School\u27s digital archive and publishing system for research and scholarship, which is managed by the Lamar Soutter Library. The intended audience is faculty, researchers, staff, and students at UMass Medical School

eScholarship@UMMS Annual Report 2019

This is the annual report for eScholarship@UMMS, the digital repository and publishing system managed by the Lamar Soutter Library for the University of Massachusetts Medical School. The report covers the period January 1, 2019 through December 31, 2019

Cultivating Scholarship: The Role of Institutional Repositories in Health Sciences Libraries

The early promise of institutional repositories is beginning to bear fruit. Medical libraries with institutional repositories, like other academic libraries, have found that their repositories support new ways of engaging with researchers and meeting the challenges posed by the transformation in scholarly communication over the past decade exemplified by open access, the National Institutes of Health Public Access Policy, campus-based publishing, and the sharing of research data. Institutional repositories can grow and thrive in academic health sciences libraries and be a vital component in the provision of library services to faculty, researchers, staff, and students

Repository Outreach: Engaging Partners Across Campus

Lisa Palmer, Institutional Repository Librarian at UMass Medical School, has developed excellent outreach strategies for working with faculty on grant-funded research support, including data management. In particular, she’ll discuss how she and her colleagues have leveraged the institutional repository in a collaboration with the UMass Center for Clinical and Translational Science on an NIH grant, and to support a Women’s Health Research grant from the National Library of Medicine. Presentation for the ACRL 2015 bepress IR All-Star Tailgate event in Portland, OR, on March 25, 2015

Anatomy of an Institutional Repository: Dissecting the Metadata Process

In 2006 the Lamar Soutter Library at the University of Massachusetts Medical School licensed ProQuest’s Digital Commons institutional repository (IR) software and launched eScholarship@UMMS. The goals were to provide a showcase for the medical school’s research, teaching, and scholarship; promote open access to research; and make available an easy way for faculty and researchers to promote and distribute their work. To date the Library has established five distinct collections. Each collection varies in scope and in the way the Library acquires the content. This variation poses many challenges for metadata creation and maintenance. Each collection entails the establishment of record templates, metadata requirements, workflow processes, and quality control procedures. Ongoing work includes assigning medical subject headings and reviewing metadata submitted with the item. With the IR, the work of Library catalogers is more visible than ever before, especially since the metadata is searched in Google. This poster will address these content management challenges and successes from the perspective of a medium-sized academic health sciences library just getting started with digitization. The poster will include displays of records from both the administrative and end-user interfaces, metadata requirements, and usage data. Presented at the American Library Association Annual Conference, Washington, DC, on June 25, 2007

Literature Search Strategy Week: Lisa Palmer on Using My NCBI to Save PubMed Searches and Citations and Customize Your Display

Blog post to AEA365, a blog sponsored by the American Evaluation Association (AEA) dedicated to highlighting Hot Tips, Cool Tricks, Rad Resources, and Lessons Learned for evaluators. The American Evaluation Association is an international professional association of evaluators devoted to the application and exploration of program evaluation, personnel evaluation, technology, and many other forms of evaluation. Evaluation involves assessing the strengths and weaknesses of programs, policies, personnel, products, and organizations to improve their effectiveness

Altmetrics and Institutional Repositories: A Health Sciences Library Experiment

A brief overview of UMass Medical School\u27s recent application of altmetrics in one collection in the medical school\u27s institutional repository, eScholarship@UMMS

How to Be a Gamechanger with Your IR: Managing the Institutional Repository at UMass Medical School

An overview of the implementation of eScholarship@UMMS, the institutional repository (IR) at UMass Medical School, including services, staffing, and lessons learned

Storage Made Simple: Preserving Digital Objects with bepress Archive and Amazon S3

One of the “purposeful pathways” in the UMass Medical School Lamar Soutter Library’s 2016-2020 strategic plan is to “responsibly preserve institutional investments in purchased and unique content” [1]. Upon completion of the strategic plan, the library began to investigate digital preservation services for its institutional repository on the Digital Commons platform, eScholarship@UMMS. Although content on bepress platforms is protected by a robust infrastructure that includes multiple backups and cloud storage with Amazon Glacier, the library was interested in an additional level of preservation and control, at a minimal cost. After researching various options over many months, in 2016 the library implemented the new bepress Archive service [2], which works with Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) [3] to provide a real-time archive of repository content and metadata. This presentation will describe the implementation process and the library’s experience to date with bepress Archive and Amazon S3. [1] http://escholarship.umassmed.edu/lib_articles/196/ [2] https://www.bepress.com/reference_guide_dc/getting-started-bepress-archive/[3] https://aws.amazon.com/s3