Digital Repository @ Iowa State University provides open access to research and publications from Iowa State University to increase their visibility and reputation. It contains extension and outreach materials like publications and articles. The repository receives around 80 downloads per item and over 900,000 total downloads from over 200 countries. It allows authors to view readership reports on their works' downloads and visitors. The repository aims to further partner with extension and outreach groups to digitize more of their historical publications.

1. Digital Repository @ Iowa State University
Increasing the visibility and reputation
of Extension and Outreach
Harrison W. Inefuku
Digital Repository Coordinator
Iowa State University Extension and Outreach Leadership Team
December 9, 2013

2. An introduction to
Digital Repository @
Iowa State University
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Provides access to university
publications and research and
scholarship of Iowa State’s
faculty, staff and students
Materials are freely available
over the Internet, making our
work accessible to anyone,
worldwide, with access to the
Internet
Reaches a global audience,
with visitors from 200 countries
and territories
Optimized for search engines,
including Google and Google
Scholar
Arrangements place our work in
university library catalogs
worldwide
http://lib.dr.iastate.edu
Digital Repository @ Iowa State University

3. Supporting the extension misssion
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Digital Repository @ Iowa State University complements and
supports the strategic priorities of Extension and Outreach:
• Engages the citizens of Iowa with access to education;
• Research funded, in part, by the citizens of Iowa
become freely available to the people
• We will enhance opportunities for council members, faculty,
and staff excellence
• Increase the reputation of extension and outreach
faculty and staff
• Present, as a whole, faculty and staff members’ body of
work
• Detailed download reports provide faculty and staff
insight into their readers
Digital Repository @ Iowa State University

4. Extension and
Outreach in the
repository
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Extension and Outreach
publications;
Peer-reviewed articles by
extension faculty and staff;
Animal Industry Reports;
Iowa State Research and
Demonstration Farms Progress
Reports;
Podcasts and audio recordings
Digital Repository @ Iowa State University

5. Extension and Outreach publications
Digital Repository @ Iowa State University

6. Extension and
Outreach scholarship
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We check the copyright status
and publishers’ policies before
uploading any article;
Received permission to upload
publications from:
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Journal of Extension;
North American Colleges and
Teachers of Agriculture
(NACTA);
eXtension.org
Digital Repository @ Iowa State University

7. Bridging Extension
and Outreach and
academic units
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Extension and outreach
publications are presented
alongside conference materials,
peer-reviewed articles, technical
reports and other publications
produced by academic
departments
Digital Repository @ Iowa State University

8. SelectedWorks author
profiles
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Allows readers to discover an
author’s entire publication
portfolio in one location;
Provides academic and
research contexts for extension
and outreach work;
Social media buttons makes it
easy for readers to share work
with colleagues
Digital Repository @ Iowa State University

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Impact: Downloads
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Downloads to date: 913,963
Number of items: 11,370
~80 downloads/item
Digital Repository @ Iowa State University

10. Top Extension and
Outreach publications
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High Fructose Corn Syrup—
How sweet it is (690
downloads)
Questions and Answers: About
calcium and vitamin D (253
downloads)
Heart Disease and You—Facts
about food choices (201
downloads)
Eat to Compete: What you
should know about dietary
supplements (115 downloads)
Survivor’s Guide to Healthy
Web Surfing and Phone Apps
(99 downloads)
Digital Repository @ Iowa State University

11. Impact: Visitors from
Iowa
Since April 2012, the repository has
received:
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17,776 visitors from Iowa
(13.96% of total visitors);
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235 communities across the
state;
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Top 10 sources of visitors:
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Ames
Des Moines
Iowa City
West Des Moines
Cedar Rapids
Ankeny
Johnston
Cedar Falls
Urbandale
Sioux city
Digital Repository @ Iowa State University

12. Impact: Readership
reports
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Authors receive a monthly email report with download
statistics;
Author dashboard provides
detailed readership reports in a
graphic format, broken down for
each publication
Digital Repository @ Iowa State University

13. Online Publishing:
Journals and
Conferences
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Publish electronic journals and
conference proceedings;
Supports a full peer-review
workflow;
Custom branding
Digital Repository @ Iowa State University

14. Future possibilities
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Partnering with Conference
Planning and Management to
provide proceedings
publications
Digitizing historical extension
and outreach publications from
University Archives
New peer-reviewed journals
Digital Repository @ Iowa State University

15. Want to
participate?
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Send me a copy of your
vita or publications list;
We will work on checking
the copyright status and
seeking permissions from
your publishers to upload
your work;
We’ll get back to you with
our results and work with
you to get as much of your
work up as possible.
Harrison W. Inefuku
Digital Repository Coordinator
hinefuku@iastate.edu
294-3180
Digital Repository @ Iowa State University

16. For more information
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What’s In It For Me? The advantages of using Digital
Repository @ Iowa State University
(http://lib.dr.iastate.edu/digirep_outreach/4/)
Will They Let Me Do That? A brief introduction to copyright and
institutional repositories
(http://lib.dr.iastate.edu/digirep_outreach/3/)
Pre-print, Post-print or Offprint? A guide to publication
versions, permissions and the digital repository
(http://lib.dr.iastate.edu/digirep_outreach/2/)
Building Your Online Research Presence: A brief introduction
to Digital Repository @ Iowa State University for graduate
students (http://lib.dr.iastate.edu/digirep_outreach/8/)
Digital Repository @ Iowa State University