Presentation Type
Lightning Talk
Date
2024-11-21
Description
Over a year after successfully moving into a new institutional repository platform, Oregon Health & Science University now promotes its IR across campus. The IR provides students with the opportunity to learn about academic publishing through projects like the School of Dentistry Anthology. Programs can also use the IR to show off the accomplishments of faculty. Often, users come to the library to learn about the IR, but sometimes it’s not the best possible answer for them. This presentation will talk about what happens in these cases and how an institutional repository can bring people into a library and provide an opportunity to talk about publishing and data services as a whole. Medical librarians have a range of skills and knowledge at their disposal, including consulting on potential places to publish research and demonstrating impact through metrics. All of that knowledge can be shared when an institutional repository succeeds at attracting people.
Keywords
institutional repositories, MIRL, session 3
Repository Citation
Pierce, Pamela, "Institutional Repository as Bait: Luring Users into a Suite of Publishing and Data Services" (2024). Medical Institutional Repositories in Libraries (MIRL) Symposium. 11.
https://scholarlycommons.henryford.com/mirl/2024/program/11
Institutional Repository as Bait: Luring Users into a Suite of Publishing and Data Services
Over a year after successfully moving into a new institutional repository platform, Oregon Health & Science University now promotes its IR across campus. The IR provides students with the opportunity to learn about academic publishing through projects like the School of Dentistry Anthology. Programs can also use the IR to show off the accomplishments of faculty. Often, users come to the library to learn about the IR, but sometimes it’s not the best possible answer for them. This presentation will talk about what happens in these cases and how an institutional repository can bring people into a library and provide an opportunity to talk about publishing and data services as a whole. Medical librarians have a range of skills and knowledge at their disposal, including consulting on potential places to publish research and demonstrating impact through metrics. All of that knowledge can be shared when an institutional repository succeeds at attracting people.