Promoting and Preserving FIU Research and Scholarship FIU Digital Commons Promoting and Preserving FIU Research and Scholarship

Digital Commons is… FIU’s Open Access Institutional Repository A centralized access point at FIU for research, scholarship, creative works and history A place where schools, departments, centers and individuals can place their work to Share it Promote it Archive it digital collection capturing and preserving the intellectual output of a single or multi-university community. Open Access

About our IR System Hosted by Berkley Electronic Press (BePress) OAI-PMH Compliant Full Text Searchable Unlimited storage and quarterly backups Support services, including web design Strong Community Support (300+ institutions) Customizable: Front End Design/Display and Back End Functionality Online Publishing and Peer Review Management Administrative Collaboration/Support Provide Access at collection level to those outside library Usage Reports History, Notes Research Alerts, Follow Management, Share Functions Administrative Collaboration: Ability to assign administrators from outside the library to maintain and access materials. Administrators can use the system to communicate using notes, and track the history of an item. In addition, administrators can access usage reports at any time. ETDs are an example of this type of collaboration, Jamie will talk about it later Online Publishing and Peer Review Management: Allows for direct submission by authors to the system, assignment of reviewers already in the system, and final decision. Again, all tracked through the system. Can be used for conferences and other events as well. Customizable: Front end design for journals and events are eligible for unique design within a template, other collections can include banners, logos, slideshow etc for additional branding. Back end customizable: metadata fields can be unique across

Collection Snapshot 10,345 items 1.4+ Million Downloads 414,802 downloads in the past 12 months Top 3 Collections: ETDs Hospitality Review South Florida Education Research Conference Talk about readership distribution map

Content in FIU Digital Commons Published articles by FIU faculty Reports, Presentations, and other grey literature Journals published through the EdiKit peer review system Events and Conferences hosted by FIU Graduate Research - Electronic Theses and Dissertations Student Work – Biology Undergraduate Honors Theses Institutional/Historical Documents SelectedWorks – FIU Faculty Profiles Our content comes from: Collaboration with Departments/Schools/Centers: African and African Diaspora Studies, College of Education, Department of Biological Science, FCE LTER Manual “Harvesting” ie web of science, PLoS Mediated deposit for individuals

Content Example Point out the record information, the download option the downloads widget and the disciplinary commons, along with share etc. Cover sheet – when content is discovered via google cover page allows for redirection back to us Can integrate with other metrics like Altmetrics

Benefits of Digital Commons Allows authors to provide immediate access to their research freely and legally. Content is search engine optimized increasing discoverability, visibility, citations and the potential impact of an author’s work. Satisfies many requirements for dissemination of research resulting from grant funded projects. Provides author/departments with monthly readership reports with download counts. Serves as a digital archive, providing persistent URLs and preservation copies ensuring long term access to an author’s work.

Digital Commons Dashboard Available for: The whole repository Individual Departmental Collections Authors Shows: Readership Distribution Downloads by Institution, Country, by individual works Demo on Live Site Available for: The whole repository Individual Departmental Collections Authors Shows: Readership Distribution Downloads by Institution, Country, by individual works

Discipline Wheel Allows users to explore the collections by discipline 3 layered taxonomy Demo on Live Site

SelectedWorks SelectedWorks combines the individuality of a faculty page with the functionality, content and automation of Digital Commons. Import from Digital Commons, Opportunity to include biographical information about researcher including an intro paragraph, position, research interests, grant awards, classes taught. Demo on Live Site?

Challenges Facing the Repository Faculty Participation Copyright and getting the “right” version Metadata/ Metadata Clean Up Faculty Participation: Getting faculty to self-submit or to engage in the process, though those that do are very enthusiastic Copyright and getting the right version: We have to manually check each item for rights, there are some scripts and work arounds, but metadata needs to be prepared to run those, Also, authors don’t always have the right version either because they didn’t keep it or because they aren’t the lead author etc. Metadata: Sometimes the authors have the wrong info, we have to transform citations to Dublin Core, we have to make the metadata up completey.

Looking Forward Developing more streamlined workflows to capture metadata and full text content Broadening the scope of the collection Expanding our SelectedWorks service