Dominican Scholar: Approaching 1 Million Downloads

Dominican Scholar (DS) is the institutional repository for Dominican University of California; it acts as an essential platform for: Advancing the Dominican Experience by collecting, preserving, and making accessible student signature work and faculty research, in order to maximize visibility and impact of the work created by our community. Sharing our scholarship freely, both locally and internationally, in order to equal access to information and to give back to the community. DS started in September 2014 with 80 masters theses collected as electronic documents from 2012. As of September 10, 2020 it contains 3,786 masters, senior and honors theses, faculty authored articles, photographs, videos, and audio recordings that are publicly available. Those deposited items have been downloaded a total of 832,878 times. Currently, DS experiences approximately 21,000 downloads per month giving us a current projection of 1 million downloads by the end of the 2020-21 Academic Year

Small but Mighty: Launching a Successful Scholarly Communications Initiative with Limited Resources

Many small schools worry that they don’t have the resources to launch and run a successful institutional repository initiative. It might come as a surprise that their very smallness comes with sizable advantages. At Dominican University of California, Michael Pujals, Scholarly Communications Librarian, has identified and successfully drawn on these advantages to build a thriving initiative in a short amount of time, including offering services for conference and journal hosting, thesis and capstone publication, and individual scholar pages for faculty members

Collection Development Policy for Dominican Scholar

The purpose of Dominican Scholar is to collect, store, showcase, and to make freely accessible, the academic output of the University’s students and faculty in a single online open access environment. Primary Objectives To collect and make accessible Dominican University of California (the University) research and creative works – e.g. journal articles, working papers, presentations, media - in a centralized online repository. To organize the University’s research and creative works, and to share them with the community – locally and globally. To disseminate the University’s research and creative works through open availability on the Internet

Faculty Pages... How Do I Get One? Joining the SelectedWorks Author Gallery

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Open Educational Resources: Solving the Textbook Cost Crisis

A presentation on Open Educational Resources and how the can be used to ease the cost burden of textbooks for students at Dominican University of California

Me,Myself, and I: Working as a Solo Repository Manager

In this session Michael Pujals of Dominican University will share how building connections with faculty and staff allows him to gracefully juggle repository management on his own

“But, it’s been published!” Depositing your articles in Dominican Scholar

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Dominican Scholar… What is it?

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AHSS Scholarship and Dominican Scholar

A presentation, given at the School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (AHSS) faculty retreat, asking AHSS faculty to include their scholarship and publications in the University\u27s institutional repository, Dominican Scholar