Since research data services were first offered within our institutional repository, community interest and dataset deposit counts have both grown steadily. While primarily focused on housing traditional scholarship and publications, the institutional repository also provides a discipline-agnostic storage and access solution for datasets for the university. Given a landscape in...
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Public Access Policy that began in 2008 requires that final peer-reviewed journal manuscripts sponsored by the agency are freely available in PubMed Central. NIH requires that researchers who apply for grants must include a PMC reference number (PMCID) when citing their papers that were...
Presentation delivered at the Oregon State University Libraries Seminar Series in December 2010 about the investigation of the Center for Digital Scholarship at University of Kansas. The purpose of the investigation was to gain a better understanding of how to create a Center for Digital Scholarship and how to incorporate...
Presentation about OCLC's recently unveiled WorldCat Local product. Discusses some of the functionality of the software, how it is different from our local OPACs, what it does well and not so well and finally some concerns with the one big catalog, single silo approach.
Description of the primary and secondary aims of ScholarsArchive@OSU, the institutional repository of scholarly materials produced at Oregon State University.