1. ir.lib.uwo.ca

2. 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

3. Role of
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.

4. 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

5. Journals
16 journals with 2 new ones in the wings

6. Researcher Gallery

7. Conferences

8. Departments

9. Western Theses

10. 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)
now holds 5814 records, which have been downloaded a total of 288,095 times

11. How is 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.

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

13. Questions about Scholarship@Western???
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