1.
….part of the OSU Libraries' suite of digital library tools…
I’d like to thank the Faculty Senate Executive Committee for inviting the library to discuss with you. I’m going to talk for about 10 minutes and then open it up for questions. I’m joined by Jeremy Frumkin, the Gray Family Chair for Innovative Library Services, and Larry Landis, the University Archivist, each of whom helped with the presentation slides and serve on the task force in the library with Janet Webster and I. My name is Michael Boock and I’m the Head of Technical Services at the library. ScholarsArchive is part of the OSU Libraries’ suite of digital library tools.

2. Two Primary Aims
Develop digital collection of scholarly materials produced at OSU
Gain more visibility for your research
There are many reasons the library developed this tool but we list the two primary aims here: to develop a digital collection of scholarly materials produced at OSU by OSU faculty, staff and students and to gain more visibility for faculty and student research. The type of content we’ve begun collecting in ScholarsArchive includes final draft versions of articles as PDF files, powerpoint presentations, conference proceedings, technical reports, working papers, and student theses and dissertations.
Collecting these materials in ScholarsArchive increases their visibility. Research articles deposited in ScholarsArchive are indexed and accessible via Google and other internet search engines. They also appear alongside articles and books from the library’s subscription databases and online catalog using library search tools.
I can speak from personal experience about the accessibility of materials deposited in ScholarsArchive. I deposited a powerpoint presentation that I gave at a library conference to ScholarsArchive. A couple months later I was asked by the editor of a journal if I would be interested in writing an article on the topic of my presentation. The editor had found my presentation doing a google search. Some items deposited in ScholarsArchive are have been downloaded 100s of times.

3. Increase citation counts
The enhanced accessibility of articles that are made available in venues such as ScholarsArchive is evident from citation count studies. This slide is from Steven Harnad and his colleagues at the University of Southampton. Their research shows that articles that are freely available on the web are cited as much as 5X as often as articles that are not freely available.
Tim Brody, Chawki Hajjem and Stevan Harnad,
“The Research Impact Cycle”

4. Other Aims
Ensure longevity of electronic research through digital archiving best practices
Establish “permanent” URLs for your research
Return to society
Maintain historical record of university
ScholarsArchive uses open source software initially developed by MIT and Hewlett Packard. The software seeks to ensure the longevity of electronic research by incorporating best practices in digital archiving. The library has committed to ensuring that the items available in ScholarsArchive remain viable into the future.
The URLs of articles contributed to ScholarsArchive are persistent. You can reliably link to them without ever worrying about the URL changing.
Contributing articles to ScholarsArchive makes your research freely available to other researchers and to the public. Contributing research to ScholarsArchive that is in large part funded by the public, ensures that that research is available to the public, giving the fruits of your research back to the community that paid for it.
Last but not least, ScholarsArchive serves as a tool for the libraries to maintain the university’s historical record, in much the way that the libraries maintain the historical print record of the university.

5.
We don’t have a lot of time, but I wanted to show you a couple of screen shots. This is the home page. Note the URL at the top of the screen. Also, the URL appears on the bookmarks that we’ve distributed.

6. Communities and Collections
This is a page that lists all of the collections within ScholarsArchive. Resources are organized primarily by department. For example, you see here the Biological and Ecological Engineering Department collections including presentations, research publications, theses and dissertations, and course materials.

7. What Publisher’s Allow
91% of journals allow authors to “self-archive” their papers in venues such as
Including Elsevier, Blackwell, Springer, Wiley,…
E.G.: Elsevier allows authors to archive post-print (i.e. final draft post- refereeing) under the following conditions:
On author’s personal or author’s institution’s server
Published source must be acknowledged
Must link to journal home page
Publishers version/PDF cannot be used
One of the first questions we often receive relates to the permissions that authors have for making their research publicly available. 91% of journals allow authors to post their papers to venues such as ScholarsArchive. It may surprise you that even Elsevier, Blackwell, Springer, Wiley and other large publishing conglomerates allow authors to post their articles to venues like ScholarsArchive.
Finding out what a publisher allows is as simple as going to the Sherpa Romeo website listed here and searching for your journal title or publisher. The site displays what the publisher or journal allows in the way of archiving author’s versions of articles and their conditions for doing so.
For example, Elsevier allows authors to archive their post-print version (i.e. final draft post- refereeing) under the following conditions:
On authors personal or authors institutions server
Published source must be acknowledged
Must link to journal home page (this can be done in ScholarsArchive)
Publishers version/PDF cannot be used (but the final draft can)
Sherpa/Romeo -

8. Next Steps Contact: Michael.Boock@oregonstate.edu
Send us your articles!
I hope that you’ll take a look at the site when you have a moment and will begin sending us your research articles to build a collection of your research online, ensuring its availability into the future and increasing its access. Please send me a note or send a note to any of us if you are interested. It can be as simple as sending me a PDF of your pre-publication PDF file as an attachment. Once again, I’d like to thank the Faculty Senate Executive Committee and the Faculty Senate Library Committee for letting us talk to you today. The Faculty Senate Library Committee will be working to encourage contributions to the archive this year.