1. Your Research, Your Teaching, Your Repository Dorothea Salo Digital Repository Librarian dsalo@library.wisc.edu

2. What is ? UW System’s digital archive UW System’s digital archive –http://minds.wisconsin.edu/ –Open to the Web Research and instructional materials Research and instructional materials –Digitized –Born-digital Format-independent Format-independent http://minds.wisconsin.edu/

3. What does it do? 1. Captures –Directly from faculty and staff –Through simple web interface 2. Describes –Citation information, keywords, abstracts... –Citable, unbreakable URLs 3. Distributes –Full-text searchable –Crawled by Google, Google Scholar, OAIster, others 4. Preserves –Large-scale, stable, managed long-term storage –Format migration –File integrity http://minds.wisconsin.edu/

4. How does it help? Expanded reach Expanded reach –Fast dissemination anywhere with a connection –More readers = more citations! Stability Stability –Safer than your personal hard drive or web server! –We’ve always cared for books; now we care for files too http://minds.wisconsin.edu/

5. Frequently Asked Questions “What about copyright?” “What about copyright?” –Many publishers allow self-archiving –Consider “author addenda” also “Can it do web pages?” “Can it do web pages?” –Static, yes; dynamic, no “What are the best formats to use?” “What are the best formats to use?” –Open, documented, non-proprietary formats best staff can advise and assist staff can advise and assist http://minds.wisconsin.edu/

6. Contact your campus MINDS@UW representative! Contact your campus MINDS@UW representative! Campus not listed? Contact Dorothea Salo. Campus not listed? Contact Dorothea Salo. How do I start? Eau Claire: Colleen McFarland, mcfarlcd@uwec.edu Green Bay: Marlys Brunsting, brunstim@uwgb.edu LaCrosse: Bill Doering, doering.will@uwlax.edu Madison: Dorothea Salo, dsalo@library.wisc.edu Milwaukee: Michael Doylen, doylenm@uwm.edu Parkside: Nick Weber, webern@uwp.edu River Falls: Heidi Southworth, heidi.southworth@uwrf.edu Stevens Point: Terri Muraski, tmuraski@uwsp.edu Stout: Carol Hagness, hagnessc@uwstout.edu Superior: Debra Nordgren, dnordgre@uwsuper.edu Whitewater: Dianne Witte, witted@mail.uww.edu UW-Colleges: Mark Rozmarynowski, mrozmary@uwc.edu http://minds.wisconsin.edu/

7. Thank you! Photo credits: http://flickr.com/photos/laszlo-photo/149047693/ (title slide) http://flickr.com/photos/gaetanlee/421366591/ (slide 2) http://flickr.com/photos/richardsummers/372408882/ (slide 3) http://flickr.com/photos/emigh/91913872/ (slide 4) http://flickr.com/photos/a_mason/4006709/ (slide 5) Dorothea Salo Digital Repository Librarian dsalo@library.wisc.edu (608) 262-5493 http://minds.wisconsin.edu/