Presentation Type
Lightning Talk
Date
2024-11-21
Description
The American Dental Association has a three-part membership format, comprised of hundreds of state and local membership societies connected by the ADA national office. These ADA societies serve the unique needs of their regional member dentists, including information sharing through publication of journals and newsletters. Scholarly, peer-reviewed clinical research published within ADA society journals is dispersed and not indexed in a central location. To address this difficulty in access, last year the ADA’s Library & Archives launched ADA Commons, an open access repository devoted solely to knowledge sharing across the global dental community. Hosted by Digital Commons, ADA Commons allows ADA’s societies to publish and archive their scholarly materials, including journals, continuing education recordings, and conference resources. Individual members and staff not affiliated with a university institutional repository may also deposit their published scholarly works in ADA Commons. Uniquely, this project was raised by and driven through the ADA membership, not the national office. As a result, members are more than just users. They are stakeholders, designers, and invested partners in the process of building and expanding ADA Commons. Each society has a unique, branded site which their staff are trained to manage independently of the staff at ADA. ADA Commons is also host to the ADA’s digital archives and exhibits, providing access to historical records relating to oral and systemic health throughout the 165-year history of the ADA.
Keywords
institutional repositories, MIRL, session 2
Repository Citation
DeKock, Alisun and Thieme, Ellen, "A Dental Archive for All: Building a Shared Repository for the ADA’s Tripartite Membership System" (2024). Medical Institutional Repositories in Libraries (MIRL) Symposium. 8.
https://scholarlycommons.henryford.com/mirl/2024/program/8
A Dental Archive for All: Building a Shared Repository for the ADA’s Tripartite Membership System
The American Dental Association has a three-part membership format, comprised of hundreds of state and local membership societies connected by the ADA national office. These ADA societies serve the unique needs of their regional member dentists, including information sharing through publication of journals and newsletters. Scholarly, peer-reviewed clinical research published within ADA society journals is dispersed and not indexed in a central location. To address this difficulty in access, last year the ADA’s Library & Archives launched ADA Commons, an open access repository devoted solely to knowledge sharing across the global dental community. Hosted by Digital Commons, ADA Commons allows ADA’s societies to publish and archive their scholarly materials, including journals, continuing education recordings, and conference resources. Individual members and staff not affiliated with a university institutional repository may also deposit their published scholarly works in ADA Commons. Uniquely, this project was raised by and driven through the ADA membership, not the national office. As a result, members are more than just users. They are stakeholders, designers, and invested partners in the process of building and expanding ADA Commons. Each society has a unique, branded site which their staff are trained to manage independently of the staff at ADA. ADA Commons is also host to the ADA’s digital archives and exhibits, providing access to historical records relating to oral and systemic health throughout the 165-year history of the ADA.