What Are Institutional Repositories Digital collections that capture

What Are Institutional Repositories? Digital collections that capture and preserve the intellectual output of university communities. n A centralized location to collect, showcase, disseminate, and preserve scholarly output. n A mechanism for expanding access to scholarly research. n A platform for publishing scholarly research online. n

Why Build A Repository at Fordham? To enhance the reputation and visibility of the University. n To showcase the University’s intellectual quality. n To preserve and disseminate the collective research capital of the University. n To build on the growing faculty practice of self-posting research online. n To help achieve our goal of ARL membership. n

“Digital Commons” Berkeley Electronic Press (bepress) The leading hosted repository platform. n Online submission form. n Journal and Conference toolkits. n Link to content on external websites. n Batch uploads n Auto-conversion of Word, Word. Perfect and RTF documents to PDF. n Branded sites for each school, department institute or center. n

Repository Contents Repositories typically include peerreviewed articles, open access or subscription based journals, monographs, pre-prints and other works-in-progress, conference papers, theses and dissertations, creative works, and supplementary research materials. n The Digital Commons platform can also host audio and video files, data sets and executable files. n

Repository Contents Conferences One time or ongoing events. n Archive proceedings and manage event through the system. n Can include multimedia. n May also have independent branding. n

What’s In It For Faculty Worldwide visibility and increased readership of your research. n Repository contents are full-text indexed in both Google and Google Scholar. n Greater opportunities for collaboration in your field – thousands of scholars have signed up to be alerted to new research by email or via RSS feeds. n

What’s In It For Faculty Disseminate your research and grow your academic network. n Direct readers to one place to find your research. n Persistent URL’s mean there are never broken links. n Find new readers from within your discipline, adjacent disciplines, professionals, press and others outside of academia. n

What’s In It For Faculty n Track interest with monthly readership reports Total full-text downloads - past month per paper. n Total full-text downloads to date per paper. n Because of bepress’s filtering, each hit is likely to be an actual download by a person rather than the result of being touched by a robot of some kind. n http: //www. bepress. com/download_counts. html

You Can Start Now n To learn more about “Digital Commons” visit: http: //www. bepress. com/ir To browse the new Fordham repository visit: http: //fordham. bepress. com or click on the Digital. Research@Fordham link on the Library homepage. n To get an account for the repository or for questions contact Michael Considine at Ext. 3576 or by email: n

What’s Next Working Group for Planning and Management. n Presentations at Faculty department meetings. n Workshops for Faculty. n Marketing and outreach Efforts. n “Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one. ”-- A. J. Liebling