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ScholarWorks at WMU Western’s Scholarly Repository Faculty Senate Maira Bundza May 16, 2013
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ScholarWorks at WMU. Western’s Scholarly Repository. Faculty Senate Maira Bundza May 16, 2013. Goal of a scholarly repository. Showcase the scholarly and creative work of faculty, students and staff Facilitate scholarly communication Preserve and provide long term access - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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ScholarWorks at WMUWestern’s Scholarly Repository Faculty Senate
Maira BundzaMay 16, 2013
Goal of a scholarly repository• Showcase the scholarly and creative work of
faculty, students and staff•Facilitate scholarly
communication•Preserve and provide
long term access
University A-Z list or Library home page
http://scholarworks.wmich.edu/
Faculty Work• Published articles• Books• Conference papers• Technical Reports• Research projects• Creative work• Posters
Projects
• Showcase a project, community outreach, global engagement, sustainability…
• Archive reports, publications, images
• Work of centers and institutes
Journals• Online platform• Online paper
submission and review process
• Open access or manage subscriptions
• Start a new journal – 4 up, more in the works
• Digitize an old journal• $1500 one time set-up
fee
Begun April 2012, 2 issues, 3,300 downloads
Digitized back to 1960, 174,000 downloads
Fall 2012 & Winter 2013, 3,800 downloads
New journals from English and World Languages
Events or conferences• Accept online submission of
papers• Create online schedule and
program• Great Lakes Regional Conference
in April - Counseling Psychology and Counselor Education
• Working with 2 other interdisciplinary groups
• Archive past events• Assessment in Action Day,
Research & Dessert, etc.
Student WorkMain collections,:• Dissertations – 116 from 2012• Masters theses – 95 from 2012 • Honors theses – 2033 since 1963 (a few more to upload)Others:• The Hilltop Review (31,000 downloads)• Research posters• Capstone or senior projectsFaculty help needed• Encourage, submit• Explain embargo, sign-offs
7,961 items on May 15, 2013
312,341 downloads on May 15, 2013
Individuals get monthly reports on downloads of their materials
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1,000
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Items in ScholarWorks 2011-Apr 2013
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50,000
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Full text downloads from Schol-arWorks
SelectedWorks• Companion system• Create professional pages• Online portfolio• Publications• Presentations• Get reports on downloads• Transfers to other
institutions• Showcase WMU and your
department
More information• ScholarWorks:
http://scholarworks.wmich.edu/• Guide:
http://libguides.wmich.edu/scholarworks/
Questions?Set up a meeting
Maira [email protected]
