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Digital Commons

Presentation modified for Pace Digital Commons

Jeff Riedel ProQuest Information and Learning

Rey Racelis Pace University Libraries

Digital Commons/Institutional Repository at Pace

Welcome to Digital Commons

• Pace now joins a community at the forefront of scholarly communications

• There are less than 400 institutions with digital knowledge repositories worldwide

• Average Size of an established site ≈ 250 objects• Size at launch of DigitalCommons@Pace =

objects• View the repository at:

– http://digitalcommons.pace.edu

What is Digital Commons?

• An Organized Online Library of Your Research• Digital Commons might contain:

– Pre-prints (pre-refereed papers) or Post-prints (post-refereed papers)

– Undergraduate senior or honor theses– Non-static resources (e.g., sound and video files)– Conference papers– Book chapters– Reports– Journals– Presentations– And Much More – Any Digital File

Why Participate?• Enhanced Professional Visibility• More Accessible

– Open Access Publishing– Papers are Cited More

• More Discoverable– Papers are indexed in Google– Papers are indexed in OAISTER and other Library

Resources– Discovery / Access Fosters Collaboration

• Facilitates rapid dissemination of your ideas• Faculty-Authored Classroom Objects Can be

Published and Accessed (Digital or Learning Objects)

• Objective - a community of faculty actively engaged with a worldwide audience of fellow researchers

Continued : why participate• Students will not have a hard time looking for

documents you have published or written about• Digital Commons can serve as a virtual central

meeting place – useful specially since we now have many long distance education programs

• Best way to make our long distance faculty become an integral part and perceived presence in the University by being able to contribute their work in the Commons for all the university community to see

• Can be a central compiler of faculty works

Common Concerns

• Getting Published/tenure– Journals do not consider IR preprints “prior

submissions” - Elsevier as example– Most journals (84%+) will allow preprints to stay up

after publication

• Others may “steal” an idea from the repository– Publishing in IR establishes precedence of the idea– Like-minded others may become supporters or

collaborators

• Too busy to participate– Posting is easy, and takes less than 2 minutes– Adjust your workflow to utilize administrative staff as

needed

Continued : commons concerns

• Copyrights/License

- Uniquely Published in DC

- Pre-Prints (inform us when it is published) – notify publisher

- Post Prints (inform us if so) – secure permission

Library secures the permission for the Pilot Project

Value Added Features

• Can show the number of access per cluster (Department or Community)

• Can show the number of access per individual article on the cover page (bibliographic information) level and the full text (full document download) level.

• Can also provide a report of how the material is being discovered via search engine, what search engine, and from what part of the world it is coming from.

• Can notify users when new titles related to one’s area of interest come into the repository

• Can notify authors each time one’s article has been accessed• Can notify the department how many times its faculty documents

have been accessed• Allows for the searches to be exported to bibliographic formatting

software.

Number of Visits to Look at the Cover Pages – 2/1/05-4/9/05

Number of Full Text Download – 2/1/05 – 4/9/05

Number of Visits and Full Download (combined data) for Individual Library Staff Publications – 2/1/05 -4/9/05

Sample statistics on Google and other search engine searches generating harvested data from the DigitalCommos@pace.edu for the period 2/1/09 – 4/9/09

Digital Commons Sites• The Berkeley Electronic Press technology has been implemented at a

number of sites including:– California Digital Library (http://repositories.cdlib.org/escholarship/)– Florida State University– New England Law Library Repository, including University of Connecticut,

Cornell and Yale (http://lsr.nellco.org)– University of Pennsylvania– Boston College– Dickinson College– Carleton College– Trinity University (Texas)– Middlebury College– University of New Brunswick– Stevens Institute of Technology– Pace University– Cornell – School of Industrial & Labor Relations– University of Texas at El Paso– Thomas Jefferson University

Visit http://www.umi.com/umi/digitalcommons for links to Digital Commons sites

Digital Commons Communicates

• Confirmation email– Authors receive an email when the paper is posted

that provides the URL for distribution

• Monthly email to Authors– Provides usage, link to paper (for distribution), and

link/email to series to submit additional work

• Audience Notification– System can email interested audience of papers

added– Prior to notification, system will notify

authors/administrators of forthcoming announcement, and encourage additional submissions

How Does It Work?

• “Community” created for your department

• “Series” created for your work

• Load your content– Register your email address– Submit a paper– Submission may vary (email to administrator

vs. online direct load)

Contact• Rey P. Racelis – • Administrator of the Digital Commons http://digitalcommons@pace.edu

– 212-3465-1598 or rracelis@pace.edu