I R I L I2006

Institutional Repositories: Content and Advocacy Cokie Anderson, Associate Professor Electronic Publishing Center Oklahoma State University Stillwater, OK USA cokie.anderson@okstate.edu

The #1 Challenge for IR’s 2006 ARL Survey found that  getting content was the biggest problem for those implementing IR’s. 40% of respondents found it “difficult”  23% found it “very difficult”  Two of the top 3 challenges: “building  content” and “faculty engagement”

But IR’s are brilliant! Why won’t the faculty use it? Afraid it will interfere with formal  publication or patentability Concern over ownership rights  Will their work become the property of  the university? Will their work be stolen?  Don’t want to bother  Already feel overworked and underpaid 

How can we get them to participate? Make it mandatory  Controversial method  Use anthropology (U of Rochester NY)  Hire someone to observe faculty in their  natural habitat and determine where IR could fit into their workflow Advocacy (or in the US, Marketing)  Educate and persuade 

IR Advocacy Techniques Educate faculty about the  advantages of an IR Identify opinion leader(s) to be  early adopter and champion Make it easy for them!  Harvest citations and issue  invitations

Advantages of Participation Increased citation of their work (one  study found 300% increase) Articles can be found by Google®  They maintain ownership of works  No personal website maintenance  No broken URLs  Preservation, back-up and migration  of files (just say “WordStar”)

Making it easy Offer authoring tools, user-friendly  submission interfaces, help line Do most of the work on the library  side Faculty submits work in any format  Library staff prepares submissions for  deposit in IR Let them know it’s working  E-mail citation stats 

Outreach Efforts Mass e-mails to faculty  Library subject specialists liaisons  Peer-to-peer  Surveys  Presentations/Symposia  Follow up 

Resources Bailey, C. W. et al. (2006) ARL SPEC Kit  292: Institutional Repositories. Online: http://www.arl.org Branschofsky, M. (2004) Using  Marketing Techniques to Encourage Growth of DSpace at MIT. Online: http://sparc.org Gibbons, S. (2004 ) Aligning Content  Recruitment Strategies with Faculty Work Practices. Online: http://sparc.org

Resources Jones, R., Andrew, T., MacColl, J. (2006)  The Institutional Repository. Oxford: Chandos Publishing Ober, J. (2004) IR Content & Service  Expansion: the Case of eScholarship. Online: http://sparc.org

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