Craigle, Valeri

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The University of Utah: J. Willard Marriott Digital Library

Cracking the Code:  Illuminating New Directions in Scholarly Communications and Publishing Initiatives  DLF Forum November 4, 2012 Denver, CO Administered a faculty survey across campus  • Excluded Health Sciences  • Over 100 responses 79% - Viewed their research as interdisciplinary  71% - Interested in single copy print-on-demand 70% - Have “some” or “a lot” of interest in the web 62% - Want research data included in their publication 59% - Want to add additional content over time 81% - Interested in long-term preservation 50% - Offered their current project as a pilot 36% - Have additional materials not supported by trad. publishing Assessing the Need at the Univ. of Utah Univ. of Utah has a true “market-based” opportunity Gaps in inter-disciplinary support from univ. presses Multimedia increasingly important Everyone loves to see their content on the web Need for print-on-demand Research data becoming more important Never forget about long-term preservation Tenured faculty more willing to experiment with new publishing models Consistent with macro-level data from Ithaka S+R Observations From The Data For multimedia, we have a growing experience with and competency in video digitization For print-on-demand, we have an Espresso Book Machine For long-term preservation, we are launching a digital preservation program • Implementing Ex-Libris’ Rosetta software  For web interfaces, we have a web development team within Library IT For research data, the Library is engaged with faculty and campus IT in the official cyber-infrastructure committee  Aligning Library Competencies How can we store ALL the materials related to a research project in one data structure AND re-purpose it multiple ways for different distribution channels? ODD is an intriguing concept we found in literature review • But not well defined or widely implemented Lots of questions we need answered • What is the data model? / What schema should we use? • What data elements are used? / How are they tagged?  • How are all related materials linked together? • Where/How are audio and video files stored? • How are portions selected and transformed into a specific publication? Pilots centered on building websites using Word Press and extracting data using export function and/or plug-ins ODD - One Document Does It All Ethics of Suicide E-Publications: • Open Research – Fund and Journal http://epubs.utah.edu/index.php/open • Utah Law Review Metadata Crowdsourcing: Law School History Project Honors Think Tank (HTT) on Transparency and Privacy: Online Monograph   Pilot Projects Get content Investigate rights Transform files Prepare infrastructure Publish/disseminate   Ethics of Suicide Expanded online presence OA Fund & Journal OA Journal on OJS E-Publications: • Utah Law Review http://epubs.utah.edu/index.php/ulr Metadata Crowdsourcing • Law School History Project: http://history.law.utah.edu/ Honors Think Tank (HTT) on Transparency and Privacy: Online Monograph http://campusguides.lib.utah.edu/honors  Law Library Pilot Projects Three topics to discuss, 20 minutes each: •Assessing faculty / author needs •Technical infrastructure •Promotion and outreach to readers For each topic: • 4 audience volunteers for the panel • No need to be an expert • Each speak on their experience with the topic • 3-4 minutes per person • 4 minutes Q&A at the end The “Fish Bowl” 1. Understanding Our Clients’ Needs • How and why did you start? • What needs did you address? • How do we organize requests and prioritize / initiate projects? • What we have done: campus needs assessment The “Fish Bowl” Discussion Topics for Today 2. Exploring New Publishing Technologies • What is the proper data model? • How do we facilitate re-purposing this content into multiple distribution channels? • What we have done: ODD / Word Press / OJS / LibGuides  The “Fish Bowl” Discussion Topics for Today 3. Connecting With Our Audience • How do we promote, publicize, and market our publications? • How do we get our content in from of targeted readers? • What we have done: media coverage (HTT), OJS indexing; Directory of OA Journals; alumni outreach  The “Fish Bowl” Discussion Topics for Today 

Cracking the code: illuminating new directions in scholarly communications and publishing initiatives

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