A multifaceted approach to promote a university repository

Mercer, Holly; Rosenblum, Brian; Emmett, Ada

doi:10.1108/10650750710748496

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“…Furthermore, Schonfeld and Houseright (2010) discovered in a 2009 survey that less than 30 percent of faculty in U.S. colleges and universities were contributing to IRs. In addition, studies of IRs at several institutions such as Cornell (Davis & Connolly, 2007), the University of Rochester (Foster & Gibbons, 2005), the University of Kansas (Mercer, Rosenblum, & Emmett, 2007), the University of Malaya (Abrizah, 2009), and New Zealand's eight universities (Cullen & Chawner, 2011) also reveal some reluctance on the part of faculty to contribute.…”

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“…The potential benefits to faculty of an IR are the possibility of enhanced professional visibility and increased discovery of their works due to their creative materials being available in an open access resource (Crow, 2002). However, many institutions report that faculty have been slow to embrace the idea of contributing to IRs (Davis & Connolly, 2007;Mercer, Rosenblum, & Emmett, 2007;Abrizah, 2009, Cullen & Chawner, 2011.…”

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Does Tenure Matter? Factors Influencing Faculty Contributions to Institutional Repositories

Casey

2012

Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication

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INTRODUCTION Institutional repositories (IRs) provide colleges and universities a way to ensure stability of access to and dissemination of digital scholarly communications. Yet, many institutions report that faculty willingness to contribute to IRs is often limited. This study investigates faculty attitudes about IR contributions by tenure status and category of material. METHODS Two focus group interviews were conducted in the spring of 2009 among English department faculty at a large Midwestern university. One group consisted of tenured faculty and the other of tenure-track and adjunct faculty. RESULTS Both groups recognize the benefit of open access to research materials but expressed concern about their intellectual property rights. Untenured faculty spoke more about nonprint research. Both groups also shared concerns about contributing instructional materials, primarily in regard to plagiarism and outdated materials. In regard to faculty service, the tenured group discussed many items they would contribute, while the untenured faculty mentioned very little. DISCUSSION Some minor differences emerged related to experience and tenure status in regard to contributing research and instructional artifacts, but the major variation was the strong support tenured participants gave for contributing service items, compared to the untenured faculty, who did not view this category positively. Tenured faculty viewed the IR as a way to document their own service activities, investigate those of colleagues, and had fewer concerns about plagiarism or other negative effects in the service category. CONCLUSION Promoting faculty contribution of service-related items to an IR may be a way to encourage larger numbers to participate

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Section: Faculty Willingness To Contribute To Institutional Repositoriesmentioning

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Does Tenure Matter? Factors Influencing Faculty Contributions to Institutional Repositories

Casey

2012

Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication

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“…Extensive literature on IRs discusses outreach to researchers to recruit content (e.g. Gierveld, 2006;Giesecke, 2011;Madsen & Oleen, 2013;Mercer, Rosenblum, & Emmett, 2007;Nabe, 2010;Troll Covey, 2011). However, focusing outreach on content recruitment for the IR misses an important opportunity to promote OA in general; the IR is simply one tool (Otto, 2016).…”

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Effective Practices and Strategies for Open Access Outreach: A Qualitative Study

Dawson

2018

Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication

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INTRODUCTION There are many compelling reasons to make research open access (OA), but raising the awareness of faculty and administrators about OA is a struggle. Now that more and more funders are introducing OA policies, it is increasingly important that researchers understand OA and how to comply with these policies. U.K. researchers and their institutions have operated within a complex OA policy environment for many years, and academic libraries have been at the forefront of providing services and outreach to support them. This article discusses the results of a qualitative study that investigated effective practices and strategies of OA outreach in the United Kingdom. METHODS Semistructured interviews were conducted with 14 individuals at seven universities in the United Kingdom in late 2015. Transcripts of these interviews were analyzed for dominant themes using an inductive method of coding. RESULTS Themes were collected under the major headings of “The Message”; “Key Contacts and Relationships”; “Qualities of the OA Practitioner”; and “Advocacy versus Compliance.” DISCUSSION Results indicate that messages about OA need to be clear, concise, and jargon free. They need to be delivered repeatedly and creatively adapted to specific audiences. Identifying and building relationships with influencers and informers is key to the uptake of the message, and OA practitioners must have deep expertise to be credible as the messengers. CONCLUSION This timely research has immediate relevance to North American libraries as they contend with pressures to ramp up their own OA outreach and support services to assist researchers in complying with new federal funding policies.

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“…Mercer describes University of Kansas institutional repository marketing efforts and mediated article deposit services that resulted in minimal faculty uptake (Mercer, Rosenblum, & Emmett, 2007). Troll Covey (2011) conducted faculty focus groups to determine motivations and barriers to depositing research in their institutional repository and found that the "lack of value-added services [to faculty] presented a significant barrier to deposit."…”

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Article Deposit Services in Support of Federal Agency Public Access Requirements

Boock

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Clark

2016

Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication

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INTRODUCTION Academic libraries have experimented with a variety of services to encourage article deposit to institutional repositories, with varying degrees of success. Universities now face the challenge of meeting federal agency public access requirements. Following the White House Office of Science Technology and Policy public access directive in 2013, Oregon State University (OSU) initiated an article deposit service to help faculty meet funding agency requirements and facilitate deposit of articles to both federal agency repositories and the institutional repository. This case study describes the article deposit form developed by the library to encourage article deposits to the institutional repository and federal agency repositories, the processes and people put in place to request and deposit the articles, and the impact of the service on the number of articles deposited to federal agency repositories. DESCRIPTION OF PROJECT In the two years since the article deposit service was initiated, a total of 102 articles have been deposited by the library to the PubMed Central or PAGES federal agency repositories. The inclusion of a request for faculty to indicate federal funding in the article deposit form has not resulted in increased article self deposits. Identifying and requesting National Institutes of Health and U.S. Department of Energy funded articles from faculty for deposit to the institutional repository and to the agency repositories has also not received substantial uptake. The majority of articles that have been deposited to federal agency repositories by the library were received after library staff reviewed bibliographies of grant funded research for compliance with public access policies. NEXT STEPS As a result, the library is now working with the university office of research to promote a service that asks faculty for a bibliography of their articles that result from NIH or DOE funding, identifies those that need to be deposited to the agency repositories, and provides a link to the library's article deposit form for them to initiate article deposits to the institutional repository and to agency repositories.

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A multifaceted approach to promote a university repository

Cited by 13 publications

References 9 publications

Does Tenure Matter? Factors Influencing Faculty Contributions to Institutional Repositories

Does Tenure Matter? Factors Influencing Faculty Contributions to Institutional Repositories

Effective Practices and Strategies for Open Access Outreach: A Qualitative Study

Article Deposit Services in Support of Federal Agency Public Access Requirements

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