Presentation Type
Lightning Talk
Date
2025-11-20
Description
In 2022, Advocate Aurora Health in Wisconsin and Illinois combined with Atrium Health in North Carolina and Georgia with Wake Forest School of Medicine as our academic core. The combined organization called Advocate Health includes multiple legacy libraries with one library serving the Advocate Health Midwest region (legacy Advocate Aurora Health) and four libraries serving different markets and educational schools in the Advocate Health Southeast region. The Midwest region has an institutional repository (SHARE) that collects scholarly activity for all Midwest teammates. No libraries in the Southeast region had an institutional repository at the time of combination. Nursing as a service line prioritized collaboration across the enterprise and their leadership values showcasing scholarship from nurses. Nursing research leaders approached the library in the Midwest to expand the scope of SHARE to include nurses in the Southeast region. We are currently in the process of securing an amendment of our agreement with Digital Commons to make this possible. In this presentation, we will discuss: • Value nursing research has found in disseminating their scholarly activity through SHARE • Increased awareness of SHARE via author readership reports • Service line integration will drive institutional repository expansion/library integration • Strategies to fund the expansion • Upcoming opportunities and challenges due to partial expansion of SHARE
Keywords
MIRL Symposium, 2025 MIRL Symposium, lightning talk
Rights and Permissions
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Repository Citation
Deal, Jennifer and Hanus, Karen, "Expanding our IR after health system combination: Nurses lead the way" (2025). Medical Institutional Repositories in Libraries (MIRL) Symposium. 21.
https://scholarlycommons.henryford.com/mirl/2025/program/21
Expanding our IR after health system combination: Nurses lead the way
In 2022, Advocate Aurora Health in Wisconsin and Illinois combined with Atrium Health in North Carolina and Georgia with Wake Forest School of Medicine as our academic core. The combined organization called Advocate Health includes multiple legacy libraries with one library serving the Advocate Health Midwest region (legacy Advocate Aurora Health) and four libraries serving different markets and educational schools in the Advocate Health Southeast region. The Midwest region has an institutional repository (SHARE) that collects scholarly activity for all Midwest teammates. No libraries in the Southeast region had an institutional repository at the time of combination. Nursing as a service line prioritized collaboration across the enterprise and their leadership values showcasing scholarship from nurses. Nursing research leaders approached the library in the Midwest to expand the scope of SHARE to include nurses in the Southeast region. We are currently in the process of securing an amendment of our agreement with Digital Commons to make this possible. In this presentation, we will discuss: • Value nursing research has found in disseminating their scholarly activity through SHARE • Increased awareness of SHARE via author readership reports • Service line integration will drive institutional repository expansion/library integration • Strategies to fund the expansion • Upcoming opportunities and challenges due to partial expansion of SHARE