This is the annual report for the Scholarship at UWindsor institutional repository 2013-2014

Johnston, Dave

Scholarship at UWindsor

University of WindsorScholarship at UWindsorLeddy Library Reports Leddy Library10-21-2014Scholarship at UWindsor Annual Report: Nov2013-2014Dave JohnstonUniversity of WindsorFollow this and additional works at: http://scholar.uwindsor.ca/leddylibraryreportsPart of the Library and Information Science CommonsThis Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Leddy Library at Scholarship at UWindsor. It has been accepted for inclusion in LeddyLibrary Reports by an authorized administrator of Scholarship at UWindsor. For more information, please contact scholarship@uwindsor.ca.Recommended CitationJohnston, Dave. (2014). Scholarship at UWindsor Annual Report: Nov 2013-2014.http://scholar.uwindsor.ca/leddylibraryreports/2Scholarship at UWindsor 2013-2014 Page 1          Scholarship at UWindsor Annual Report Nov 2013 – Nov 2014 Dave Johnston (djohnst@uwindsor.ca)     Scholarship at UWindsor 2013-2014 Page 2   Summary  Launched on November 1st 2012 Scholarship at UWindsor the University of Windsor’s institutional repository (IR) has grown in content and readership in its second year. The mandate of Scholarship at UWindsor is to enable researchers in our campus community to showcase, preserve and provide open-access to a wide range of scholarly and creative works. This could include copies of published articles, conference papers, presentations, theses, videos of talks, musical scores, images and more.  Since Scholarship at UWindsor is an open-access repository, we seek to make its contents freely available to anyone with access to the internet. This enables the work of scholars from the University of Windsor to reach the broadest possible audience and helps to make publicly funded research more publicly accessible. Drop in and take a look at the work the University of Windsor is doing!     Readership Map from Scholarship at UWindsor indicating readers from around the world Scholarship at UWindsor 2013-2014 Page 3                                          Total Downloads 283,189 Downloads Last Year 213,773 Journals, Conferences, and other Publications 2270 Theses and Dissertations 5161 Communities 31 7421 Total Items Scholarship at UWindsor at a Glance Scholarship at UWindsor 2013-2014 Page 4  Repository Software  The library selected BePress’s Digital Commons software to serve as the home for the University’s IR. Digital Commons is one of the most mature and widely used repository services in the world. Works in each Digital Commons repository are indexed by the Digital Commons Network bringing together research from over 300 institutions worldwide. Digital Commons provides users with an attractive and easy to use interface in both the front end and administrator interfaces, making it easy for users to browse and upload content and staff to manage the system.  BePress emerged in the late 90s as a company built by scholars to support scholars. Bepress was built by scholars to serve the needs of scholars. In the late 1990's, academic journals were plagued by slow turnaround times, limited access, and unreasonable prices. Publishers wanted to maximize profits, while editors wanted to maximize readership and share ideas. In 1999, UC Berkeley Professors Robert Cooter, Aaron Edlin, and Ben Hermalin banded together to launch a sustainable alternative: Berkeley Electronic Press, now simply called bepress.  Discoverability  Scholarship at UWindsor can be easily located by its simple URL scholar.uwindsor.ca. It is also linked on the Leddy Library’s main page leddy.uwindsor.ca and elsewhere on the university’s website. However, one the most important routes for discovering academic works is through major search engines. Digital Commons' content is full-text indexed and optimized for discovering in major search engines like Google™, Bing™, and Google™ Scholar, making it easy for interested users to discover works from the University of Windsor. Scholarship at UWindsor is also registered in the Registry of Open-access Repositories (ROAR) and its content is discoverable there. It will soon be available in the Directory of Open-access Repositories (OpenDoar).  Security  The Bepress platform features a multi-tiered disaster recovery plan that utilizes fail-over servers. These servers have regular onsite and offsite backups and support LOCKSS, an OAIS-compliant preservation strategy that provides tools for libraries to back up each other’s content.    Scholarship at UWindsor 2013-2014 Page 5  Content  Scholarship at UWindsor showcases Windsor Researchers and their work to the world. What makes this possible is a commitment to open-access. Concisely defined open-access literature is “digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions” (Peter Suber). Rather than putting research behind a paywall, open-access research enables a wider audience to benefit from the work, increases exposure of Windsor research, and helps to make publicly funded research more accessible to the public. Open-access is strategy for distribution and is compatible with the highest standards of scholarly publishing. Despite the push for open-access, there are times that authors face limitations and that works may need embargos or to be available to a limited community for a period of time. This can also be accommodated where necessary.  We recognize that good research happens at all levels at the University of Windsor. Scholarship at UWindsor is here to showcase the work of our faculty members to graduate students, to undergraduates.  One of the most important research contributions of our academic institutions are the theses and dissertations (ETDs) of our graduate students from departments across campus. Thus one of the first major content additions to the repository was these ETDs. We continue to add new theses and dissertations as they are published.   Last year also saw the launch of our first undergraduate journal, The Great Lakes Journal of Undergraduate history (GLJUH). GLJUH was the result of the hard work of undergraduates working together with Faculty members in the department of History including Editor-in-Chief Calin Murgu, Dr. Adam Pole, and Dr. Marshall Bastable. The result was an exceptional first volume of papers from top undergraduate researchers from across Ontario and the Great Lakes region.   Library liaisons continue to reach out to their departments to raise awareness about Scholarship at UWindsor, and add content from the researchers on our campus. Many faculty members have responded and Scholarship at UWindsor is now home to hundreds of faculty publications which have appeared in important journals and books from a wide range of disciplines represented on our campus. Most of these articles were not previously available open-access, meaning that only users from institutions who pay large sums of money to subscribe to the content could benefit from these works. Now most of these works are available for free, online in a digital format for anyone in the world to benefit from.  Scholarship at UWindsor 2013-2014 Page 6  Scholarship at UWindsor is also home to the department of Psychology’s International Symposium on Arab Youth. ISAY hosts presentations, posters, images and keynote videos from top researchers around the world.   One of the biggest achievements of the last year was the launch of the Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation (OSSA) conference archive. The internationally renowned OSSA conference draws top researchers in the field of argumentation to Windsor for their biennial conference. The archive made more than a thousand papers and commentaries dating back to 1995 previously available only in CD format available digitally online for the first time.   Another exploratory project with the department of history is the Spanish Republic of Letters. This collection was built to exhibit the vibrant renaissance scholarship of Spain in the 16th and 17th century through letters. “Since letter writing has always been considered a defining attribute of Renaissance scholars, mapping out this Spanish Republic of Letters can help lay solid documentary foundations to this critical historiographical reassessment”.  Finally, the repository is also the new home of the Campus Community Garden Project. The Campus Community Garden Project is a volunteer based, non-profit project affiliated with the University of Windsor that offers University students and staff, as well as people from the Windsor community, the opportunity to learn how to produce food sustainably in an urban setting. The repository now hosts hundreds of photographs of the development of the CCGP over the past two years.  As projects around campus arise, Scholarship at UWindsor will be here to meet the needs of those projects. We look forward to working with the UWillDiscover undergraduate research conference, the International Cancer Research Conference, and the Faculty of Law as we enter our next year.     Scholarship at UWindsor 2013-2014 Page 7  Tri-Council Open Access Policy  Canada’s research funding agencies will be announcing an open access policy this fall for the research they fund. The objective the initial policy was to "improve access to the published results of research funded by the Agencies, and to increase the dissemination and exchange of research results." In section 3.1 of the draft two options were provided to authors for providing open access to their Tri-Council funded work:  "Grant recipients are required to ensure that any peer-reviewed journal publications arising from Agency-supported research are freely accessible within 12 months of publication, either through the publisher's website (Option #1) or an online repository (Option #2)." (Draft Policy)".  Looking at option 1, while there are a growing number of high quality OA journals it is true that the current selection of open access journals can be limited, and not every open access journal is the right choice in terms of content and impact. However this doesn't mean that you are forced to choose a less desirable venue for publication, which leads to option 2 - Posting in an online repository. Institutional repositories (IR) like Windsor's Scholarship at UWindsor that host research published by members of a university or institution are becoming more and more commonplace alongside of various disciplinary repositories like the ArXiv.   An important feature of IRs is that they are journal agnostic and host articles published from a huge range of journals. As an author you publish in your journal of choice, and in that process upload a version of your paper to the repository. Most journals now have specific language dealing with this process and it is likely that the systematic distribution of articles as a result of a national mandate would require agreements between the funding bodies and publishers to ensure that authors can both publish in the place most relevant to their work while making an OA copy available in a repository. For Windsor authors, the Tri-Council policy shouldn't have an adverse impact on their choice of journals so long as they are comfortable with option 2 as their method of open access distribution. Again, it is important to note that option 2 works alongside publishing in a traditional journal, it does not preclude publishing in a traditional journal.    Scholarship at UWindsor 2013-2014 Page 8  Statistics  Growth         Increase in number of User Sessions from year one to year 2 Scholarship at UWindsor 2013-2014 Page 9  Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2013-2014      Popular Titles           Downloads  ELEVATED TEMPERATURE LUBRICATED WEAR OF Al-Si ALLOYS 4032 Tribological behaviour of H- and W-DLC coatings: Effects of environment and temperature on adhesion 3746 Study of the Added Mass of Cylinders and Spheres 2358 Physiological Responses to a Battling Rope High Intensity Interval Training Protocol 2183 The Role of Black Soldier Fly, Hermetia illucens (L.) (Diptera: Stratiomyidae) in Sustainable Waste Management in Northern Climates 1495 Plasma Electrolytic Oxidation (PEO) Coatings on an A356 Alloy for Improved Corrosion and Wear Resistance 1350 Leak 1154 Using Critical Discourse Analysis to Address the Gaps, Exclusions and Oversights in Active Citizenship Education 1040 Mathematical Modelling and Optimization of Flexible Job Shops Scheduling Problem 1026 NUMERICAL  SIMULATION OF FUEL SPRAYS IN DIESEL ENGINES 988    0 50000 100000 150000 200000ETD DownloadsTotal ETDsScholarship at UWindsor 2013-2014 Page 10  Journal, Conference and other Publications 2013-2014      Popular Titles                           Community         Downloads Influence of Media Stereotypes on Muslim-Americans’ Perceptions of Identity arabyouthsymposium 275 Intramolecular Pauson-Khand reactions of cycloheptynedicobalt complexes Chemistry Biochemistry 33 Extensible Information Brokers Computer Science 350 Harry of Jameson’s Raid (1895) Creative Writing 22 Universal Design for Instruction  and Teaching Strategies CTL 190 ICT in teacher education: Examining needs, expectations and attitudes. Education 60 Multimodal Constructions of Self: Autobiographical Comics and the Case of Joe Matt's Peepshow English 201 0 5000 10000 15000 20000 25000 30000 35000DownloadsJournal, Conference, Other PublicationsScholarship at UWindsor 2013-2014 Page 11  Constructing the Wicked Witch: Discourses of Power in the Witch-Hunts of Early Modern Germany Great Lakes Journal of Undergraduate History 660 Brewed in Blood: Military Justice and Hydra’s Many Heads History 287 A season-long team-building intervention: Examining the effect of team goal setting on cohesion Human Kinetics 1585 Not on the Same Page: Undergraduates' Information Retrieval in Electronic and Print Books Leddy Library 223 Character amenability of Banach algebras Math and Stats 197 Sustainability Fellowships: The Potential for Collective Stakeholder Influence Odette 786 Dialectical Profiles and Indicators of Argumentative Moves OSSA 58 Can Only Religion Save Us? Philosophy 155 Two-photon decay of the singlet and triplet metastable states of helium-like ions Physics 154 Women's Evaluations of and Affective Reactions to Mainstream Violent Pornography, Nonviolent Pornography, and Erotica Psychology 253 Discourses of student orientation to medical education programs. Schulich 30 Scholarship at UWindsor 2013-2014 Page 12  Multicultural Politics and the Paradox of Being Special: Interrogating Immigrant Women’s Activism and the Voice of Difference Soc Anth Crim 181 Association of ambient air pollution with respiratory hospitalization in a government-designated “area of concern”: the case of Windsor, Ontario Social Work 37 Academic Discipline or Literary Genre? The Establishment of Boundaries in Historical Writing History 126 Youth ice hockey coaches' perceptions of a team-building intervention program Human Kinetics 299 The Detroit River International Crossing Bridge: A Stakeholder Analysis Of How One Wealthy Individual Could Exercise His Will Against Many Odette 386 The influence of shyness on the use of Facebook in an undergraduate sample Psychology 196      Scholarship at UWindsor 2013-2014 Page 13  Special Publications 2013-2014  Great Lakes Journal of Undergraduate History    Title Downloads Introduction 35 “On the importance of education…it is as necessary as the light—it should be as common as water, and as free as air… ”: Perpetuating Racial Discrimination through Education in Nineteenth Century Windsor and Sandwich 102 “The black dog that worries you at home”: The Black Dog Motif in Modern English Folklore and Literary Culture 235 The Legacy of Fergus’ Adam Fergusson: Lasting Contributions to Agricultural Science and Settlement in Nineteenth Century Fergus 82 Constructing the Wicked Witch: Discourses of Power in the Witch-Hunts of Early Modern Germany 660 Heroes and Identity: Two-Hundred Years in the Making 124 Total 1238        Scholarship at UWindsor 2013-2014 Page 14  OSSA Archive   Top Titles Downloads The Authority of Wikipedia 82 Dialectical Profiles and Indicators of Argumentative Moves 58 Norms of advocacy 56 Trust based on bias: Cognitive constraints on source-related fallacies 52 Cicero's authority 46 Inference as growth: Peirce’s ecstatic logic of illation 45 Argument Use In Gendered Contexts 42 What is acknowledgement and why is it important? 41 The Role of Rhetoric in Rational Argumentation 38 The editorial meeting discussion as an argumentative activity type 36 Total Archive 3789      Scholarship at UWindsor 2013-2014 Page 15  International Symposium on Arab Youth    Top Titles Downloads Influence of Media Stereotypes on Muslim-Americans’ Perceptions of Identity 275 Parent Practices and Identity Outcomes in Arab Youth 175 Theory and Method in Cross-Cultural and Intercultural Psychology 153 Interventions with Continuous Traumatic Stress of Discrimination in Youth 106 Acculturation Strategies and Arab Youth Cultural Identity Development: A Review 101 Youth Coping with Oppression in Arab Spring and its Psychological and Socio-Political Dynamics: The Example of Palestinian Youth 84 Development, Knowledge and Perception of Sexuality among Arab Youth 68 Resiliency in Lebanese Adolescents 65 Resiliency in Lebanese Adolescents 56 Acculturation, Identity and Wellbeing among Ethnocultural Youth 52 Total (full conference) 1478  Scholarship at UWindsor 2013-2014 Page 16  Librarians Research Institute     Popular Titles Downloads Subject No-hits Searches in an Academic Library Online Catalog: An Exploration of Two Potential Ameliorations 81 Reaching First-Year Students During Orientation Week 32 Information literacy in the programmatic university accreditation standards of select professions in Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia 4 Optimizing Our Teaching: Hybrid Mode of Instruction 3 Information Literacy Policy Development in Canada: Is It Time? 2 Total 122         Scholarship at UWindsor 2013-2014 Page 17  Conclusion  2013-2014 has been a year of growth for Scholarship at UWindsor and sets the stage for continued growth in the future. Ultimately this means opening the University Windsor, its researchers and their research and creative activity to the world. So come visit us or stumble across us on Google or Google Scholar, the rest of the world is.  The Leddy Library hopes to continue its outreach to departments groups around campus to include more of our researchers work in Scholarship at UWindsor. We are always seeking new was to help provide publication support through Scholarship at UWindsor, along with our other platforms such as Open Journal Systems and Open Monograph systems. Please contact your Library liaison (http://leddy.uwindsor.ca/your-librarian) or the repository administrator (Dave Johnston djohnst@uwindsor.ca) if you need any assistance or have a project in mind. You can also visit our publication support pages http://leddy.uwindsor.ca/leddy-publishing-and-hosting-services.     

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