Why do some repository managers seem to find it so easy to engage their faculty? What are the services and features that make an IR compelling to faculty? Tim Tamminga of bepress has spoken with numerous institutions about their faculty engagement strategies. In this presentation, he will share vignettes of successful faculty engagement from libraries at institutions of all different types and sizes. In addition, Tim will share successful IR talking points for getting your faculty’s attention

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Getting Faculty Excited About Your IR: Really?  Really! Tim Tamminga Vice President at bepress April 11, 2013 Why engage your faculty? •  Because they produce the bulk of the scholarly output repositories are meant to capture. •  Because they have problems that can be solved and needs that can be served by repositories. Why faculty are participating: Serving needs Solving problems Getting your faculty involved: Say yes! (and then do it for them) Talk to them Address their needs and concerns Try multiple approaches Provide a positive feedback loop “I have been able to make freely available on-line five book-length manuscripts that would never otherwise have been published in my lifetime, have updated two previously published books, and have also made available four of my out-of-print books and over 30 of my published papers and articles that originally often had very limited circulation.   … All told, the Digital Commons has allowed me to make unusually effective use of my time since my retirement, and believe that I can still make my contributions matter and my influence felt at a national and international level.”  -Paul Johnsgard, Professor Emeritus, University of Nebraska - Lincoln What are other faculty saying? As emeritus faculty, I’ve spent my career researching and writing about politics.  I published my !rst academic paper in 1974. Then as it is today, having your academic work cited is critical. But now the methods of scholarly publishing are very different. Academic publishers and academic libraries alike are faced with !nancial challenges of changing technologies and greater demand for information. Over the course of my career I’ve authored or co-authored more than 200 articles and books in comparative elections, election forecasting, political economy and quantitative methodology. I can’t hazard a guess as to how many students, researchers and others have read my ideas in the past 40 years. Then three years ago, 24 of my articles and book chapters were uploaded into Iowa Research Online (http://ir.uiowa.edu). Now each month, I receive noti!cation of how many times an article has been downloaded. It’s exciting to see those numbers grow. But what might be even more exhilarating is the fact that my work will be available to students and researchers in perpetuity.  By Michael S. Lewis-Beck, F. Wendell Miller Distinguished Professor of Political Science http://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/news/2012/10/24/iowa-research-online-where-your-work-lasts-forever/ “The number of downloads here is greater than the number of [downloads on] peer-reviewed articles I’ve had, which I think is interesting…    Besides enhancing the reputation of the college, it’s really done that to myself, in that it now provides some information to people that I’m a leader in the !eld and that I’m involved in the !eld…   It’s also surprisingly led to a number of counties coming forth and suggesting that they may be willing to fund some research and scholarship in these areas.   And !nally, one of the major concerns for me was that we had done about four million dollars worth of work in terms of government money…and now these historical data sets were in fact available to the general public as well as to agencies and leads to development of policy and management in the area.”  Joseph C. Makarewicz, Distinguished Professor of Environmental Sciences and Biology, The College at Brockport  From the webinar, “Institutional Repositories Supporting Community Engagement, Part 2: Regional Research at Brockport (SUNY) and UMass (Amherst)”    “As a researcher in sport injuries, I receive numerous national and international inquiries weekly from team athletic trainers, sports med clinicians, and even athletes themselves requesting manuscripts, digital art and tables published in subspecialty journals or textbooks.  The JDC provides a portal through which we can share our research and presentations to an audience who might not otherwise have access.  This is an incredible powerful tool for spreading the word on what we do here at Thomas Jefferson University.”   –Adam Zoga MD; Assistant Professor, Department of Radiology, Thomas Jefferson University  From “The Jefferson Digital Commons Reaches 1 Million Downloads,” http://jeffline.jefferson.edu/aisrnews/?p=2964  “I am absolutely delighted,“ Katina Michael said. “Research Online has been instrumental in getting our research out to the wider community - fellow academics, industry, government and citizens. It is such a powerful tool.”  “An academic has the ability to control the release of their papers at any point throughout the publication process… but I think the real contribution of Research Online has been in forming cross-institutional and transnational networks.”  Research Online also gives academics the ability to see which of their papers are the most popular, and Katina Michael says this has been useful for her research.  “My fellow collaborators and I have been able to gauge which papers are being downloaded most and when. We can then make some basic assumptions about the signi!cance of various research endeavours and direct our efforts accordingly.” From “One Million Downloads for UOW’s Research Online,”  http://media.uow.edu.au/news/UOW066204.html  “’The Psychological Record’ has a distinguished history of disseminating innovative research from renowned behavioral psychologists in the absence of administration by a professional organization. OpenSIUC has thus been monumental in the journal’s dissemination of cutting-edge research to people all over the globe in recent years. I am grateful to have had OpenSIUC as a partner and collaborator”   -Ruth Anne Rehfeldt, editor of The Psychological Record   From “’OpenSIUC’ hits milestone in downloads,” http://thesouthern.com/news/local/siu/opensiuc-hits-milestone-in-downloads/article_4d6f3112-feb4-11e1-8e3a-0019bb2963f4.html What do these show? •  Repositories are solving problems •  Faculty are getting excited about the potential of the IR •  These success stories are not limited to traditional faculty publications Getting your faculty involved: Say yes! (and then do it for them) Try multiple approaches Address their needs and concerns Provide a positive feedback loop •  Articles?  Yes! •  Journals?  Yes! •  Conferences?  Yes! •  Books and monographs?  Yes! •  Images?  Yes! •  Data sets?  Yes! •  Technical and research reports?  Yes! •  Audio and video?  Yes! •  Student work and learning materials?  Yes! •  Primary source materials?  Yes! Say yes! (and then do it for them) •  One-on-one conversations •  Support from the top and from peers •  Events and presentations •  E-mails, brochures, and press releases •  Put IR services where they will see them Try multiple approaches One-on-one conversations   • Tenure • Research • Publishing • Citations • Grant requirements • Scholarly reputation • Teaching  So what are you working on?   How can I help? Support from peers and from the top •  Ask other faculty that are participating to talk about the IR on your behalf and spread the word to their colleagues •  Leverage your library dean to promote the IR with deans and the Provost, as well as with department chairs, the Faculty Senate, and others Events and Presentations •  Offer presentations to departments, research institutes, etc. •  Present at meetings for new faculty and build each of them a SelectedWorks page •  Offer presentations and services for related issues, such as authors’ rights education •  Hold events aimed at raising awareness about repositories and open access E-mails, brochures, and press releases •  E-mail faculty with a list of articles that can be posted– and then post them •  Send out targeted e-mails announcing what services you are offering •  Create brochures and leave-behinds •  Write up press releases and news items Put IR services where faculty will  !nd them •  Place information about the IR in places where you know faculty will be looking for solutions it can provide–data management plans information pages, libguides, faculty handbooks, etc.  •  Let the other offices faculty interact with often know about the IR– Office of Research, Instructional Technology, Center for Teaching Excellence, and others  •  Tenure and review •  Research and publication •  Scholarly reputation •  Citation counts •  Grant requirements •  Collaboration with other colleagues •  Finding out what their colleagues are doing •  Dissemination and visibility of their work •  Teaching •  Their scholarly legacy •  Institutional Repositories Address faculty needs and concerns •  Download reports and author dashboard •  Stakeholder reports •  E-mail the author of the paper of the day •  E-mail department chairs when they are popular in the Digital Commons Network •  Press releases •  Annual reports Provide a positive feedback loop Talk to your faculty Hi [faculty member name]!  I’m your [title] librarian; how can I help you? Re-frame the focus “I think it’s really easy, with the repository, to focus on what’s the next collection or what can we add to the repository, what’s the next new area we can tap so we can get stuff in there and then get people to download stuff that we’ve added.  But I think it’s more valuable to focus on how we can use the repository to provide meaningful services to people across the institution and then hopefully as a byproduct of that service orientation, we end up with strong collections and the corresponding strong numbers that we like to share.”    Isaac Gilman, “Serving Campus Needs Through the Repository,”  http://digitalcommons.bepress.com/webinars/18 Faculty are excited about the IR Really?  Really!! Questions? Tim Tamminga ttamminga@bepress.com For more resources, see: DC Telegraph:  http://blog.digitalcommons.bepress.com Digital Commons Resources: http://digitalcommons.bepress.com/subscriber_resources/ 

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