The IMSE scholarship digital repository at Iowa State University provides free public access to faculty, student, and staff research while fulfilling public access mandates for federal grants. It includes a variety of publications, offers customizable profiles, and tracks usage analytics, boasting significant downloads from users in over 200 countries. The repository also supports collaboration between university departments and external institutions, with robust peer-review capabilities.

1. Increasing the Visibility and
Impact of IMSE Scholarship
Digital Repository @ Iowa State University
Harrison W. Inefuku
March 5, 2015

2. Digital Repository @ Iowa State University
http://lib.dr.iastate.edu

3. DR@ISU
Provides free, public access to
the research and scholarship
of Iowa State’s faculty,
students and staff
IMSE in DR@ISU
http://lib.dr.iastate.edu/imse

4. Self-Archive
• Journal articles and
manuscripts
• Conference proceedings,
posters and presentations
• Technical reports and white
papers
• Patents
• May fulfill public access
mandates in federal grants

5. Benefits
• Anyone, anywhere (with
Internet access) can read
and cite your work without
paying journal fees
• Optimized for Google,
Google Scholar and other
search engines
• Included in university
library catalogs, worldwide

6. Research Profile
• Makes all your work
available in the Digital
Repository on one page
• Customizable—you can
organize your work by
research topics, add
information about your
research interests, awards,
etc.
• Portable—you can take it
with you and update it, no
matter where you go http://works.bepress.com/stephen_b_gilbert/

7. The Process
• Send a copy of your vita to
digirep@iastate.edu
• We will handle the
copyright clearance and
work with you to upload
your publications

8. Centers,
Institutes and
Labs
• Create pages for centers,
institutes and labs
• Collects publications from
faculty and staff spread out
across departments
• Include work from
collaborators at other
universities (Center for e-
Design)

9. Journals and
Conferences
• Built-in peer-review
functionality
• Can be used for journals
and conference
proceedings
• Handles workflow from
paper submission to
publication

10. Impact
• 35,839 items in the repository
• 2,906,667 downloads
• Visitors from 212 countries
and territories:
1. India
2. United Kingdom
3. China
4. Canada
5. Philippines
6. Germany
7. Iran
8. Australia
9. Malaysia
10. South Korea

11. Impact
1. Purdue University
2. University of Illinois
3. University of Nebraska–Lincoln
4. Ohio State University
5. Wageningen University and
Research Center
6. Texas A&M University
7. Michigan State University
8. University of Wisconsin–Madison
9. Pennsylvania State University
10.University of Minnesota
22% of repository visitors are
on university campuses
Universities in bold are Iowa State’s peer
land-grant universities

12. Theses
1. Karthikeyan, R. K. (2010) Process
planning for rapid manufacturing of
plastic injection mold for short run
production. (4784 downloads,
advisor: Matthew Frank)
2. Padakala, B. (2008) Inventory
management in a
manufacturing/remanufacturing
hybrid system with condition
monitoring. (3,639 downloads,
advisor: Sarah M. Ryan)
3. Hardis, R. (2012) Cure kinetics
characterization and monitoring of
an epoxy resin for thick composite
structures. (3,283 downloads,
advisors: Frank E. Peters, Michael R.
Kessler)
All theses and dissertations
are added to the repository.
Supports embargos to protect
publication and patent.

13. Readership
Reports
• Monthly readership reports
• Author dashboard

14. Questions?
Harrison W. Inefuku (Digital
Repository Coordinator)
hinefuku@iastate.edu
Susan Knippel (Primary
contact for copyright
clearance and upload)
sknippel@iastate.edu
Jesse Garrison (Subject
Librarian)
jesse@iastate.edu