1. Current as of April/May 2013
A repository service collaboration
between the University Libraries and ITS
ScholarSphere: What It Is & What It Can Do for Students
[Names of presenters]
Current as of April/May 2013
Title is optional – tailor for specific audience of students, perhaps

2. What is ScholarSphere? What does it do? How does it help YOU?
Overview: access, preservation, compliance
Student uses of ScholarSphere
ScholarSphere Demo
User support
Upcoming features
Q & A

3. First, ScholarSphere is . . .

4. . . . a collaboration between
University Libraries – the service owner (incl. user support/feedback)
Departmental home in the Libraries is Publishing and Curation Services
ITS (Digital Library Technologies) – oversees feature/infrastructure/storage development & maintenance

5. ScholarSphere is a service
Upon deposit, persistent URL is generated
Collects one’s work in one location to create a
durable and citable record
for papers, presentations, publications, datasets, as well as reports & other documentation, capstone projects, audio & video files

6. ScholarSphere enables access
Facilitates sharing research
with a worldwide audience
- i.e., open access research
(research is immediately searchable/discoverable via Google & other search engines)

7. ScholarSphere = preservation service
Bit-level checking (scheduled & on- demand verifications of deposited works)
Version control
Tracks versioning (retains, can revert)
Regular file backups, and replication to disaster recovery sites
Provenance – all actions are logged for audit trails

8. ScholarSphere helps researchers manage their data
Satisfies requirements of grant agencies (e.g., National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, National Endowment for the Humanities) to … provide long-term preservation of, and access to, federally funded research data

10. But what might scholarSphere mean to you -
AS STUDENTS?

11. Student Uses of ScholarSphere
To showcase – and share – the best of your coursework and projects. Why?
Online portfolios
Prospective employers
Prospective graduate school programs
Discoverability
Makes for good research practice habits
Long-term preservation for long-term access
These are only some student uses – you may conjure others that are more relevant or on point.

12. ScholarSphere helps you Get a head start
. . . on your professional online presence

13. For this slide, a suggestion: insert a screen capture of a professional web site (belonging to library faculty member, or faculty member). An example:
Optional slide (in case you want to provide an example of a professional website)

14. For this optional second slide re: professional website (curating one’s professional presence) – could insert screen capture of list of works that are in ScholarSphere. Example:
Optional slide (in case you want to provide an example of a professional website – perhaps one at which list of publications or presentations link back to a repository service)

15. Pre-Demo highlights
Of ScholarSphere

20. Some ScholarSphere Quick Facts
Just log in (no need to create an account)
Upon initial login, personal dashboard is created
Only 4 types of metadata (description) required - title, creator, keyword, rights. Entering more metadata is recommended – enhances chances of discoverability.
Any type of file can be uploaded to – text, images, data sets, audio, video, presentations, etc.
Currently: 200MB maximum for individual file upload; 500MB maximum total upload for folder of files (Chrome)
Default is “open access” – immediately searchable/discoverable via Google, Bing, Yahoo, etc.

21. Live ScholarSphere Demo

24. New features & activities in spring/summer 2013
Collections functionality
Deposit by proxy (deposit “on behalf of”)
Dropbox for ingest of files & folders larger than 500 MB
Activities
Usability testing in July – recruiting faculty and students to be test users
ScholarSphere Users Group

25. scholarsphere.psu.edu
Questions? Comments?