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Socialization of the Institutional Repository: IR+

Socialization of the Institutional Repository: IR+. Suzanne Bell, UR Research Projects Coordinator Nathan Sarr, Senior Software Engineer. University of Rochester. Private university founded in 1850

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Socialization of the Institutional Repository: IR+

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  1. Socialization of the Institutional Repository: IR+ Suzanne Bell, UR Research Projects Coordinator Nathan Sarr, Senior Software Engineer

  2. University of Rochester • Private university founded in 1850 • Includes The College, Eastman School of Music, Warner School of Education, Simon School of Business and the Medical Center • 5000 undergrads and 4300 grad students • Carnegie Level I research university • Institutional repository: UR Research, est. 2003

  3. The repository needs to… • Become part of the users’ normal workflow • Be part of the research process • Support collaboration • Make publishing into the repository easy • Focus on the user as an individual and provide positive feedback • Give users control over their work

  4. User workspace - private Researcher pages - public Institutional repository – generally public

  5. IR+ provides… • Personal Workspace • Your files, organized your way • Share files • Track versions • Researcher Pages to showcase work • Easy “Publishing” into the IR • Stats: at many levels

  6. Datasets and IR+ • System is format agnostic • Information from ICPSR: average size of their datasets is 39 MB • Too big to email back and forth • Not too big to up-/download from the web • Share and collaborate using IR+

  7. Keep that metadata clean! • IR+ has a person name authority system • Uses control lists as much as possible for metadata entry • Makes possible a number of interesting information displays

  8. Enough Powerpoint… IR+ - let’s go Live

  9. Suggested Readings • Bell, Michael. (2009) IR+ A New Repository to Meet User Needs. Presentation at CNI 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1802/8841 • Foster, Nancy Fried and Susan Gibbons. (2005) Understanding Faculty to Improve Content Recruitment for Institutional Repositories. D-Lib Magazine 11(1). http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january05/foster/01foster.html Also available at: http://hdl.handle.net/1802/1292 • Foster, Nancy Fried and David Lindahl. (2008). Enhancing E-Resources by Studying Users: The University of Rochester's Analysis of Faculty Perspectives on an Institutional Repository. Preprint of book chapter available at: http://hdl.handle.net/1802/5888 • Lindahl, David et al. (2007) Institutional Repositories, Policies, and Disruption. http://hdl.handle.net/1802/3865 • Randall, Ryan et al. The Next Generation of Academics: A Report on a Study Conducted at the University of Rochester. http://hdl.handle.net/1802/6053 • Witt, M. (2009). Institutional Repositories and Research Data Curation in a Distributed Environment. Library Trends, 57(2). Available from: http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1126&context=lib_research

  10. Thank you for this opportunity! More information: http://irplus.orghttps://urresearch.rochester.edu Email: sbell@library.rochester.edu OR nsarr@library.rochester.edu

  11. IR+ - Summing Up • Make use of the repository part of the researchers’ normal workflow • Share, showcase, control • Easy-to-use option for medium-sized datasets • Controlled approach to metadatasystem generated Contributor, Sponsor pages

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