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Digital Commons

Digital Commons. Tim Tamminga. First, something about bepress . Started in 1999 by University of California - Berkeley faculty to publish scholarly journals.

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Digital Commons

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  1. Digital Commons Tim Tamminga

  2. First, something about bepress Started in 1999 by University of California - Berkeley faculty to publish scholarly journals. In 2002 bepress and the University of California System (CDL) developed a central repository for published UC scholarly articles. This became the foundation for Digital Commons. About 200 institutions today use Digital Commons. As of Sept, 2011, bepress is concentrating wholly on Digital Commons and supporting universities provide repository and publishing services

  3. Digital Commons community http://digitalcommons.bepress.com/

  4. Digital Commons: a full service offering • Client Services GoalsFree IR managers from the headaches of technically supporting users of the platform • Outreach GoalsFacilitate the sharing of best practices for IR success • Development GoalsNew and improved capabilities: get content in, share it as you like, and make it visible and authoritative

  5. About Digital Commons Hosted platform SEO: Optimized for major search engine crawlers Google search (“subgrade assessment”) Content of any type No limit on the amount of content

  6. Digital Commons: Discovery and Dissemination Hosted platform Optimized for major search engine crawlersGoogle search (“subgrade assessment”) Persistent URLs: place a link with confidence RSS feeds & Email notifications Content of any type

  7. Digital Commons as a Showcase

  8. Using the Institutional Repository to support that mission • Signs of accomplishment • Stepping stone for new research • Environmental scan of what has been done, what is being done, and an indicator perhaps of what needs to be done. • A way to be accountable to the school’s stakeholders (the public, its peers, students and parents, funders, etc.) in fulfilling the school’s mission of discovery, engagement , collaboration and learning

  9. Undergraduate Research

  10. External • Internal

  11. Monographs Journals

  12. Conferences

  13. Doing Well by Doing Good • Serves the needs of stakeholders on campus by providing opportunities for new knowledge production • Serves a key institutional mission to share/distribute its knowledge to the world • Serves the business of the academy by supporting the unique facets of that institution—what makes it unique • Facilitates new opportunities for knowledge production and publication • Enables expansion of new library services across the academy

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