TARA BAILLARGEONBETH TURTLE

Digging for Buried Treasure: Strategies for Promoting Institutional Repositories

ER&LFebruary 2, 2010

Digging for Buried Treasure: Strategies for Promoting Institutional Repositories

“Libraries cannot afford to hide behind technology by creating passive services that emphasize access over real contact with real researchers” - Stuart Basefsky

Background

K-State’s Repository Services Team (RST) Led a pilot project to establish a model for a

sustainable institutional repository (IR) Kansas State Research Exchange (K-REx) Comprised of 3 liaison librarians, K-REx Coordinator,

cataloger, and systems analyst from Digital Initiatives Department.

Importance of Liaisons

In the midst of a paradigm shift among faculty

Target influential facultyLiaisons know the “hook”

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Importance of Liaisons

Becoming more integrated into faculty workflows Collaborating on grants, co-writing papers,

contributing to curriculum development, and even voting on departmental issues

Reorganizing

Content Management/Scholarly Communication Division Scholarly Communications and Publishing Dept. Identify value added services

Graduate/Faculty Services Department Work closely with Scholarly Communications and

Publishing Dept. Identify needed value-added services

Value-Added Services

Campus Research Distribution Strategies “Universities must shift from a passive role in

research distribution to an active one” (David Shulenburger, Assoc of Public & Land Grant Universities)

IRs are one part of these strategies

Value Added Services are another

The Institution Faculty & Students

Must reflect mission and benefits to…

Strategies Address

Institutions want to increase impact, visibility, prestige, funding

Faculty want Help with workflows Share teaching materials Identify campus collaborators Promote research labs Store & deposit research data To be found, used and cited

(Maness, Miaskiewicz, Sumner. D-Lib Magazine, 2008 and Foster, Gibbons, D-Lib Magazine, Jan 2005)

Reinvent your IR - focus on Services

• Services expand the narrow focus of the IR; extract more value

• Give our users what they want

Library as Publisher

Many libraries creating digital imprintsPartnering with university pressesPublish journals, monographs, undergraduate

work, conference proceedings

Digitization Services

Consulting on standards, best practicesContract to do work in-houseWork with faculty to digitize collections of

slides, photographs, print materials, etc

Data Management/Curation

“Data is the currency of science, even if publications are still the currency of tenure. To be able to exchange data, communicate it, mine it, reuse it, and review it is essential to scientific productivity, collaboration, and to discovery itself” (Gold, 2007)

Growing demand to include research datasets in IRs Life Cycle: Create, Acquire, Archive, Preserve, Share,

Reuse Librarians incorporated in research process from

beginning to end

Other Services

Copyright/intellectual property servicesProfile research/scholarship and identify

collaborators Researcher pages E-Portfolios

Promote undergraduate workDocument mgt systems & storage of

files/versions for editing

References

Gold, Anna. Cyberinfrastructure, Data, and Libraries, Part I. D-Lib Magazine. Sept/Oct 2007. http://www.dlib.org/dlib/september07/gold/09/gold-pt1.html

Foster, N. and S. Gibbons. Understanding Faculty to Improve Content Recruitment for Institutional Repositories, D-Lib Magazine. Jan 2005. http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january05/foster/01foster.html

Maness Jack, T. Miaskiewicz, and T. Sumner. Using Personas to Understand the Needs and Goals of Institutional Repository Users. D-Lib Magazine, 2008. http://www.dlib.org/dlib/september08/maness/09maness.html

Basefsky, Stuart. The End of Institutional Repositories & the Beginning of Social Academic Research Service: An Enhanced Role for Libraries, June 16, 2009. http://works.bepress.com/ir_research/29/

Thank you!

For more information, please contact

Tara Baillargeon, Kansas State Universitytjb@k-state.edu

Beth Turtle, Kansas State Universitybturtle@k-state.edu