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Supporting Strategic Directions Raising WL profile within the University Community Integrating WL as a partner in the academic enterprise Presents opportunities for WL to meet academics and provide support in disseminating their research Supports Open Access – freely available research open to the world

Role of S@W Serves institutional needs by showcasing the breadth of scholarship produced at an institution--everything from faculty papers to student projects, annual reports, and community partnerships. WL is able to support faculty in creating and editing sustainable scholarly journals, as well as a variety of other publishing initiatives like e-only press imprints, conference proceedings, student research, and more.

What is in Scholarship@Western? 1. Departments, Programs, Research Units 2. Researcher Gallery 3. Online journals 4. Ebook collections 5. Reports and working papers 6. Conferences and symposiums 7. Electronic thesis and dissertation repository

Journals 16 journals with 2 new ones in the wings

Researcher Gallery

Conferences

Departments

Western Theses

Stats – some examples! Thesis - Control and Power Supply for Resistance Spot Welding (RSW) (350 downloads) in July Journal article - Emblems and Cuts: Philosophy in and against History (537 downloads) Scholarship@Western now holds 5814 records, which have been downloaded a total of 288,095 times

How is S@W supported? LIRM has taken responsibility for the technical aspect Work with subject librarians and faculty (or students) to set up journals, collections, researcher gallery entries.

Neat things Embedded multimedia Geolocation (Google Maps, Google Earth) Interactive comments, blogs, twitter and RSS feeds Digitized photographs Movie/video clips Audio clips

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