Ending Law Review Link Rot: A Plea for Adopting DOI

As librarians, we do a fair amount of research online for ourselves and the faculty and students we serve. As researchers, we know that there is nothing more frustrating than encountering a dead link to a much-needed article, particularly when there are deadlines to meet. Dead links (link/ reference rot) can be a particularly frequent occurrence for law review articles because the law review societies that publish them have not yet adopted standards for preserving online access to them, particularly the adoption of a standard for implementing persistent URLs. This Practical Insight is a plea to law reviews and law librarians who manage law review content to adopt the DOI, or Digital Object Identifier standard. A brief description of DOI will be provided, followed by instructions for minting a DOI and integrating DOI URLs into the metadata record of a law review article

Creating Persistent Law Review Article Links with Digital Object Identifiers

A case study for how to use digital object identifiers (DOIs) to make online journals more accessible and improve their site user reports

Ending Law Review Link Rot: A Plea for Adopting DOI

Though the vast majority of law reviews are now published online, very few law review publishers use persistent URLs, like DOI, to provide stable online access. The purpose of this article is to encourage law reviews to implement DOI, and demystifies the process for doing so

Leveraging Bepress’s New API for Metadata Transformations

Getting metadata and content into our Digital Commons institutional repository was always straightforward, but getting information from the repository was always limited and challenging. With the recent release of an API, Digital Commons repositories can be engaged with in exciting new ways. For this series, I’ll discuss my summer project of taking metadata stored into the repository and transforming it into clean metadata for importation to our university’s research information system

Ending Law Review Link Rot: A Plea for Adopting DOI

As librarians, we do a fair amount of research online for ourselves and the faculty and students we serve. As researchers, we know that there is nothing more frustrating than encountering a dead link to a much-needed article, particularly when there are deadlines to meet. Dead links (link/ reference rot) can be a particularly frequent occurrence for law review articles because the law review societies that publish them have not yet adopted standards for preserving online access to them, particularly the adoption of a standard for implementing persistent URLs. This Practical Insight is a plea to law reviews and law librarians who manage law review content to adopt the DOI, or Digital Object Identifier standard. A brief description of DOI will be provided, followed by instructions for minting a DOI and integrating DOI URLs into the metadata record of a law review article

Creating Persistent Law Review Article Links with Digital Object Identifiers

A case study for how to use digital object identifiers (DOIs) to make online journals more accessible and improve their site user reports

The Down Lo(ad): How to Address Missing IR Downloads?

While downloads are considered an important metric, they can be tricky to compile. Issues arise from different platforms, and even within the same platform. Did you know that your faculty could have downloads on Digital Commons that are not included in their total download counts? Join this roundtable discussion of IR managers who are tackling the question of how to unite these missing downloads with their authors. Roundtable Participants: Karen Shephard, Information Services Librarian, Barco Law Library, University of Pittsburgh School of Law Lauren Seney, Associate Director & Head of Technical Services, William A. Wise Law Library, University of Colorado Law School Aaron Retteen, Instructional Assistant Professor of Law and Digital Services & Repository Librarian, Texas A&M University School of Law Christine Anne George, Assistant Director for Faculty & Scholarly Services, Dr. Lillian & Dr. Rebecca Chutick Law Library, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law John Beatty, Faculty Scholarship Librarian, Charles B. Sears Law Library, University of Buffalo School of La

The Down Lo(ad): How to Address Missing IR Downloads?

While downloads are considered an important metric, they can be tricky to compile. Issues arise from different platforms, and even within the same platform. Did you know that your faculty could have downloads on Digital Commons that are not included in their total download counts? Join this roundtable discussion of IR managers who are tackling the question of how to unite these missing downloads with their authors. Roundtable Participants: Karen Shephard, Information Services Librarian, Barco Law Library, University of Pittsburgh School of Law Lauren Seney, Associate Director & Head of Technical Services, William A. Wise Law Library, University of Colorado Law School Aaron Retteen, Instructional Assistant Professor of Law and Digital Services & Repository Librarian, Texas A&M University School of Law Christine Anne George, Assistant Director for Faculty & Scholarly Services, Dr. Lillian & Dr. Rebecca Chutick Law Library, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law John Beatty, Faculty Scholarship Librarian, Charles B. Sears Law Library, University of Buffalo School of La

IR Highlights

IR Highlights are a chance for attendees to share a brief overview (approx. 10 minutes) of a collection, partnership, workflow, or tool that can be useful to other attendees or that might provide creative inspiration for others to adopt similar measures. This year\u27s IR Highlights were: Open Textbook Initiative Josh Cromwell, University of Southern Mississippi Expert Gallery Suite Greg Seymour, bepress IR Managers Forum Christy Shorey, University of FloridaPamela Andrews, University of North Texas Automated Metadata Harvesting for IR Content Recruitment Aaron Retteen, Florida State Universit

DOI Demystified

Thinking about minting DOIs for your law reviews, but not sure where to begin? We will convene a group of law librarians to discuss their experiences minting DOIs and share tips and tricks on how to get started and to create fast and easy workflows. All your burning questions about DOI will be answered during this hour-long session. Speakers: Valeri Craigle, Head of Digital and E-Publishing Services, James E. Faust Law Library, University of Utah Aaron Retteen. Instructional Assistant Professor of Law and Digital Services & Repository Librarian, Texas A&M University School of Law Benjamin Keele, Associate Director, Indiana University McKinney Law Elizabeth Manriquez, Scholarly Communications and Reference Librarian, University of Wisconsin Law School Library Jessica Pasquale, Assistant Director for Scholarly Publishing & Information Services, University of Michigan Law School Library Cassie Walker, Assistant Director for Scholarly Initiatives, SMU Dedman School of Law Watch the pre-recorded intro vide