Public outreach and access are becoming more and more important across institutions of higher education. Sustainable information technology approaches are necessary to communicate and preserve public education materials generated as part of this new era of “outreach and engagement.” This paper describes the partnership between Oregon State University’s Extension Service...
An investigation of current practices among other university libraries (and "best practices" should they exist), to establish what needs to be in place for Oregon State University Libraries to implement a centralized rights management service for its digitization projects?
These materials accompany the chapter, "Collaborating for Success: A Cross-Departmental Digitization Project," found in the book Digitization for the Real World.
ScholarsArchive@OSU annual report provides overview of creation of the institutional repository, measures of success in the form of user quotations and statistics, growth opportunities and challenges experienced to this point.
Presented at 2009 Institutional Repositories: Disseminating, Promoting, and Preserving Scholarship Conference held September 30 at Utah State University in Logan, Utah.
On September 10, 2008, the Oregon State University (OSU) Libraries shut its doors for the annual In-Service Day event. Eighty employees from all three OSU libraries gathered at the Valley Library on the OSU main campus. Karyle Butcher, university librarian, strongly supports this annual event planned by library staff for...
In July 2005, the Oregon State University Libraries began accepting electronic versions of student theses and dissertations into ScholarsArchive@OSU, the library’s institutional repository. By January 2007, all Oregon State University graduate students were required to deposit their final research. This paper compares past processes and workflows for print theses and...