scholarly journals Institutional Repositories for Public Engagement

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 116-129
Author(s):  
Erik A. Moore ◽  
Valerie M. Collins ◽  
Lisa R. Johnston

Most higher-education institutions strive to be publicly engaged and community centered. These institutions leverage faculty, researchers, librarians, community liaisons, and communication specialists to meet this mission, but they have largely underutilized the potential of institutional repositories. Academic institutions can use institutional repositories to provide open access and long-term preservation to institutional gray literature, research data, university publications, and campus research products that have tangible, real-world applications for the communities they serve. Using examples from the University of Minnesota, this article demonstrates how making this content discoverable, openly accessible, and preserved for the future through an institutional repository not only increases the value of this publicly-engaged work but also creates a lasting record of a university’s public engagement efforts and contributes to the mission of the institution.  

Author(s):  
S. V. R. Prabhakar ◽  
S.V. Manjula Rani

In this digital era, academic institutions which are universities and colleges have increasingly recognized the importance of institutional repository. An institutional repository in latest concept for collecting, managing, preserving and disseminating scholarly works created in a digital form by staff and students in individual universities and colleges. The repositories also serve as a comprehensive publications database of the parent organization, which in turn facilitate better management of research knowledge better visibility and wider access, rapid communication of research, long term preservation. In this article mainly discussed on definition, benefits, challenges, Open Source Software and the different types of institutional repositories.


2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 96-102
Author(s):  
S. Satish

Institutional repositories is converting the intellectual output of an institution to digital form. It contains collecting, archiving, preserving of Institute intellectual output in the digital form, as the archives are thesis, publications, reports, dissertation, teaching materials, presentations, video, images, photographs, printed material, newspaper clippings. ICMR-NIE has started its digital library service from 2015. This paper discusses the setup of a digital institute repository at ICMR-NIE using the open source software D-Space for the long-term preservation of the institutional materials. It benefits the institute by raising the institute’s profile for a broader dissemination, increased use, and enhances the Institute research materials to the staff, scholars, students and faculty members.


2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angela Fang Wang

Institutional repositories (IRs) host a lot of unique and valuable digital content. More and more law libraries are implementing IRs to meet the needs for open access, long-term preservation, electronic publishing, and libraries' evolving role in teaching and research. But most patrons don't know where or how to find that content. So librarians must make the IR content more discoverable (and easy to find).


PEDIATRICS ◽  
1968 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-51
Author(s):  
Douglas Reilly ◽  
Mark E. Nesbit ◽  
William Krivit

The long-term survival of three children with disseminated skeletal metastases due to neuroblastoma is reported. These three patients are added to eight other patients reported in the literature who have survived longer than 2 years after the development of their metastatic osseous lesions. A review of the cases did not reveal a specific treatment regime which provided the success in these cases. The presence of skeletal involvement, therefore, should not indicate a hopeless prognosis. A review of 33 patients with neuroblastoma at the University of Minnesota from 1956-1966 is also given to provide overall survival data.


Author(s):  
Johannes Hubert Stigler ◽  
Elisabeth Steiner

Research data repositories and data centres are becoming more and more important as infrastructures in academic research. The article introduces the Humanities’ research data repository GAMS, starting with the system architecture to preservation policy and content policy. Challenges of data centres and repositories and the general and domain-specific approaches and solutions are outlined. Special emphasis lies on the sustainability and long-term perspective of such infrastructures, not only on the technical but above all on the organisational and financial level.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Debbie Martindale

<p>This presentation introduces academics and researchers to the value of formal and informal technologies in promoting the visibility and discoverability of their online researcher identity. Topics covered in the presentation include Open Access, Creative Commons licensing, Institutional Repositories, Research Data Management, ORCID, Research Collaboration & Social Scholarship, Researcher impact &citation analysis, Social Media, and Altmetrics.</p>


2012 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 64-67 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neil Beagrie ◽  
Monica Duke ◽  
Catherine Hardman ◽  
Dipak Kalra ◽  
Brian Lavoie ◽  
...  

This paper provides an overview of the KRDS Benefit Analysis Toolkit. The Toolkit has been developed to assist curation activities by assessing the benefits associated with the long-term preservation of research data. It builds on the outputs of the Keeping Research Data Safe (KRDS) research projects and consists of two tools: the KRDS Benefits Framework, and the Value-chain and Benefits Impact tool. Each tool consists of a more detailed guide and worksheet(s). Both tools have drawn on partner case studies and previous work on benefits and impact for digital curation and preservation. This experience has provided a series of common examples of generic benefits that are employed in both tools for users to modify or add to as required.


PEDIATRICS ◽  
1981 ◽  
Vol 68 (5) ◽  
pp. 633-637 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dana E. Johnson ◽  
David P. Munson ◽  
Theodore R. Thompson

Prenatal administration of glucocorticoids has been shown to decrease the incidence and severity of respiratory distress syndrome in premature infants, but little is known regarding the immediate economic impact of this reduction in respiratory morbidity. This study retrospectively examined 342 infants born during 1978 and 1979 and hospitalized in the University of Minnesota Hospitals. Comparison of survival and the hospital charges for infants whose mothers had or had not received prenatal glucocorticoid therapy showed that administration of glucocorticoids had a significant effect in lowering mortality in infants with birth weights between 750 and 1,249 gm (27 to 29 weeks' gestation). Glucocorticoid therapy was also effective in decreasing morbidity as reflected by hospital charges of surviving infants with birth weights between 1,250 and 1,749 gm (30 to 32 weeks' gestation). In both steroid-treated and nontreated mothers, prolongation of gestation decreases hospital charges in a linear fashion. The noted decrease in hospital costs should not justify prenatal glucocorticoid administration but should stimulate examination of long-term effects of the drug on surviving infants.


2018 ◽  
pp. 218-233
Author(s):  
Mayank Yuvaraj

During the course of planning an institutional repository, digital library collections or digital preservation service it is inevitable to draft file format policies in order to ensure long term digital preservation, its accessibility and compatibility. Sincere efforts have been made to encourage the adoption of standard formats yet the digital preservation policies vary from library to library. The present paper is based against this background to present the digital preservation community with a common understanding of the common file formats used in the digital libraries or institutional repositories. The paper discusses both open and proprietary file formats for several media.


Author(s):  
Austin Tonderai Nyakurerwa

The chapter focused on the institutional repository as a knowledge management tool that enhances the visibility of libraries in the 21st century. The researcher mainly relied on content analysis to gather research data. The researcher took a swipe on the uptake of institutional repositories the world over and an analysis of how an institutional repository could be used as a knowledge management tool was done. The researcher also conducted a situational analysis of the MSU institutional repository and assessed the impact of the digital repository on the visibility of the library. The author used the Webometrics Ranking of Universities in Zimbabwe to assess how universities are ranked in Zimbabwe.


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