Welcome to the third season of our regular DC community webinar series! Presented by members of the Digital Commons community and free to DC subscribers and selected institutions who are interested in learning more about Digital Commons, these webinars aim to share how individual Digital Commons subscribers are successfully addressing a variety of topics related to institutional repositories. In the past, webinars have covered topics such as journal publishing and conference management in Digital Commons, staffing, usage reports, and archiving law reviews. If you missed them, you can view them here: http://digitalcommons.bepress.com/webinars/
This season, the series will address topics of faculty engagement, service provision, attaining IR buy-in, and copyright and authors’ rights. We will continue to post information and registration links here as the series progresses. We hope you’ll be able to join us!
Thursday, October 13, 2011, 11am Pacific
Title: Building Content by Building Community: Engaging Faculty at Cornell’s ILR School
Presenter: Jim Del Rosso, Cornell ILR School
Access webinar here: http://digitalcommons.bepress.com/webinars/16/
Other resources you might also find helpful:
Generating Top-level Buy-in for Your Institutional Repository, Courtney Smith, bepress, http://digitalcommons.bepress.com/toolkits/7 (password “scholarship”)
Capturing Unique Collections in Digital Commons: A Service to Campus and Community, Ann Taylor, bepress, http://digitalcommons.bepress.com/toolkits/8 (password “scholarship”)
Thursday, November 10, 2011, 11am Pacific
Title: Serving Campus Needs Through the IR: CommonKnowledge and the College of Health Professions at Pacific University
Presenter: Isaac Gilman, Pacific University
Register: https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/527291690
Thursday, December 8, 2011, 11am Pacific
Title: Marketing Your IR to Create and Renew Buy-in from Administrators and Faculty
Presenter: Erika Gearing, Johnson and Wales University
Register: https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/221456658
Digital Commons is a suite of tools and services that enable institutions to manage, display, and publish scholarship to the web in a beautiful, highly visible showcase.
As the leading hosted institutional repository (IR) software platform, Digital Commons offers the features of a traditional IR as well as professional-grade publishing software, management tools, and individual faculty and researcher pages to promote and disseminate scholarship and serve academia.
With Digital Commons, universities can collect, preserve, and make visible all of their intellectual output, including pre-prints, working papers, journal articles, dissertations, master's theses, conference proceedings, presentations, creative works, and a wide variety of other content types.
Digital Commons open access institutional repository software defines everything that a modern repository should be, with the expertise, individual support, and leading technology to enable libraries to build successful, sustainable repositories that benefit the entire campus.
Customers: http://digitalcommons.bepress.com/subscriber_gallery/all.html
Books: http://digitalcommons.bepress.com/repository-software/books/
Image Galleries: http://digitalcommons.bepress.com/repository-software/images/
Theses & Dissertations: http://digitalcommons.bepress.com/repository-software/etd/
Multimedia: http://digitalcommons.bepress.com/repository-software/multimedia/
Publishing and Editorial Management Software for Institutional Repositories
Publishing can help make your repository a thriving community that scholars want to join. Digital Commons comes uniquely equipped with EdiKit™, a professional-grade peer-review/editorial management system. EdiKit extends professional publishing services to faculty, students, and other scholars.
Engage Scholars: Scholars at every stage of their career need to publish. Give them the tools and support they need to start their own journals, create peer-review communities, and build their profile in the field right on the repository.
Original content can be the most popular content: Journals are among the most popular destinations in a repository and a great way to attract interested readers to your site. Digital Commons' open access journal publishing software allows scholars to establish new journals and make available archived journal content to disseminate their own work and ideas on a global scale.
Build an on-campus publishing program: Increasing numbers of universities are establishing their own library-based publishing programs on campus. Digital Commons can help launch your online repository quickly and efficiently (in about a month, in fact), build out your library's digital collections, and develop a plan for long-term success.
Journals: http://digitalcommons.bepress.com/online-journals/
Conferences: http://digitalcommons.bepress.com/repository-software/conferences/
Fully Supported and Hosted Repository Software
Digital Commons is a hosted service, which means all you need is an internet browser to enjoy the rich features that the system offers. It also means that bepress provides all the technical support your repository may need for the entire life of your site.
“We have been extremely pleased with the system's reliability, flexibility, and performance, and very impressed with bepress's helpful, friendly, accommodating, and efficient service.”
—Paul Royster, Coordinator of Scholarly Communications, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
With over a decade’s experience developing software for building repositories and journals for the scholarly community, bepress client services has the expertise and technical know-how to help you grow and maintain a successful, sustainable institutional repository
All Digital Commons clients receive:
• Full hosting and unlimited training, phone, and email support from the largest and most experienced repository team in the world. In most cases, our team is able to resolve your issues the day you report them.
• Fast setup: we will build your repository in three weeks or less after receiving a completed setup form. Thisincludes customizing your site to create the look and feel you desire. After a brief training—usually less than one hour—you'll be ready to add content to your new site.
• Attractive, professional, and customized site designs that integrate your institutional branding and customized workflows to meet your particular needs.
• Localized customizations for your site.
• Advice from our team of publishing and repository experts, and recommendations based on best practices from other successful repositories.
• Strategies, materials, and outreach services to gain support and content for your repository.
• Meetings, events, workshops, and a network of the entire Digital Commons client community.
• We offer these resources so that you can focus on gathering content and raising awareness for your institutional repository: the two factors that are imperative for any successful IR initiative.
Testimonials: http://digitalcommons.bepress.com/testimonials/
Advantages of a Digital Commons Hosted Repository Solution for Librarians
Digital Commons lets you do things that you can’t do with any other repository – bepress takes care of the hardware and software support, allowing resources to be directed to other publishing and service functions...
—Hahn, Karla. "Research Library Publishing Services: New Options for University Publishing." Association of Research Libraries. Mar. 2008 15.
Focus on success, not technology: Digital Commons is a fully hosted and supported platform, which frees you up to acquire digital assets, build collections, work with scholars, and promote your repository as a hub of scholarly activity for your entire campus and community.
Engage scholars in unique ways: With peer-review publishing, conference management, multimedia features, and individual scholar sites, your repository will provide sought-after services to scholars on your campus and give them reason to embrace the repository as their own.
Raise your institution’s profile: Optimized for major search engines, beautiful, and easy to use: a successful IR helps you forge partnerships with the community outside of your institution, prove the value of your institution to funders, and raise institutional visibility and relevance.
Get expertise and best practices: Digital Commons has been honed through years of experience and study of successful repositories. Clients benefit from the expertise of our world-leading repository team who will advise you on best practices gathered from institutional repositories worldwide.
Low total cost of ownership: Open Source IR software is free to acquire but expensive and time consuming to implement. It requires hardware to serve and house data and dedicated personnel for maintenance and development.
Benefits of a hosted service: http://digitalcommons.bepress.com/about/hosted/
Resources:
FAQ’s: http://digitalcommons.bepress.com/faq/
Events: http://digitalcommons.bepress.com/dc_events/
Webinars: http://digitalcommons.bepress.com/webinars/
Newsletter: http://digitalcommons.bepress.com/newsletters/
Research on IR’s: http://digitalcommons.bepress.com/repository-research/
Reference Material: http://digitalcommons.bepress.com/reference/
Toolkits & Tutorials: http://digitalcommons.bepress.com/toolkits/
Collaboratory: http://digitalcommons.bepress.com/collaboratory/
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