Building departmental partnerships for open access: scholarly communication and collections

The Open Access Initiatives at Utah State University are tightly integrated with our collection development goals, and perhaps more importantly, our budget. Our collections budget provides financial support for our Bepress DigitalCommons repository, as well as funding to support our faculty authors who choose to publish in author-pays OA journals. While we recognize the important service provided by traditional publishers, our hope for the long run is to change the conversation in our library-publisher relationships such that we may eventually have remaining funds to provide even more resources to our University community. This presentation will explore the keys to the development and implementation of our recently adopted rights-based Open Access Policy, the administration of our Open Access publication fund, and the collection development goals and financial contributions that support these initiatives

Copyright Considerations for Institutional Repositories

Andrew will discuss copyright issues associated with institutional repository efforts. These include identifying the various versions of manuscripts and determining their associated copyright restrictions, as well as strategies for working with authors to ensure that they retain the necessary rights to share their work openly on the web

Enhancing Discoverability: How to describe DigitalCommons content for harvest into cultural heritage institutions

Both institutional repositories and cultural heritage institutions have broadly defined collection development policies. As such, many collections could appropriately reside in both. However, at many institutions digital libraries that support cultural heritage collections are often supported by CONTENTdm, while institutional repository initiatives are supported by another platform--in Clemson\u27s case, DigitalCommons. Librarians at Clemson University identified several key collections that fit both the scope of its institutional repository and digital library. In order to leverage the google-ability of the institutional repository with the discoverability that comes with inclusion in the DPLA, we embarked on a process to describe our collection and work with the South Carolina Digital Library to have a pilot collection harvested from Digital Commons to SCDL and DPLA. This presentation will walk through that process and show how others can have their collections harvested as well

How Does Stuff Get in to TigerPrints?

Poster describes, in broad strokes, the different types of content ingested into TigerPrints, how that content is obtained, and the link between education an outreach efforts, consultations, and ingestio

Content and Collaboration I: A Case Study of Bringing an Institutional Repository and a University Press Together

Profile of a Merger: In 2009, the dean of libraries and the director of the university press at Utah State University proposed a departmental merger to their central administration. They argued that through restructuring reporting lines so that the press became a department of the library at least three important benefits could be achieved. First, the central administration was at the time hoping to cut costs by consolidating operations in various parts of the university; merging the staff reporting lines of the university press into the library offered an opportunity for consolidation. Secondly, integrating the press into the library promised it some relief from the structural vulnerability it had suffered historically as a department among “other instructional activities” reporting directly to the provost. And for the university library, to move the press into a structural collaboration would bring an established publisher of e-books into the library, representing a steady source of book-length content for the digital institutional repository that the library was consciously building. In short order, and spurred by the impacts of the Great Recession on higher education, the merger was approved