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Agenda

• Overview
• Services
• Faculty
• Institutional
• User
• Future
• Opportunities for Collaboration
• Discussion

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What is the Texas Digital Library?
A consortium of higher education institutions
that provides a set of shared digital library and
scholarly communication services in support of
faculty
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Membership

• Founding ARL Members
• Texas AM University
• Texas Tech University
• University of Houston
• University of Texas at Austin
• Associate Members
• Baylor University
• Texas State University
• University of North Texas
• University of Texas at Arlington
• University of Texas at Dallas
• Affiliate Members
• Angelo State University
• Texas AM Corpus Christi
• Texas AM Galveston
• Texas AM Health Science Center

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How do faculty access TDL content?

• Like everyone else
• Through the web
• Google,Google Scholar
• Yahoo
• RSS Feeds, Twitter
• Open Access

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How do faculty access TDL services?

• They choose their institution from a Where Are
  You From (WAYF) webpage
• They log-in with their standard university log-in
  and password from their institution

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Where are you from?( Shibboleth)
Your Universitys Standard Authentication
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How do faculty request a new service?

• Service Request System
• Faculty services are requested through an
  automated system
• Institutional services require contact with
  the TDL team

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Services

• Faculty Services
• Directory
• Blogs
• Wikis
• Journals
• Institutional Services
• Repositories
• ETD Submission and Mgmt System
• User Services
• Training
• Helpdesk

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FacultyDirectory

• Easily identify Faculty/Staff participating in
  the Texas Digital Library
• Create awareness of community within the users of
  the TDL

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Faculty Bio
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Scholarly Blogs

• Provide a rapid mechanism to disseminate current
  news, post excerpts from works in progress, and
  discuss research findings
• United by focus on research and scholarship
  produced by institutions of higher education in
  Texas

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Example The Scholars Space
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Wikis

• Provide a collaborative editing environment where
  each faculty member can create, edit, and link
  web pages
• For research teams looking for a central place to
  share knowledge, helping the team accomplish
  their research more efficiently

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LORWiki
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Journals

• A complete service covering the workflow of a
  Journal author submission, the peer review
  process, editing, and publishing
• Offers advantages over physical counterparts in
  terms of cost and speed

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Texas Women Writers
Cover of Journal
Table of Contents
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Repositories

• Collect, preserve and distribute the scholarly
  output of member institutions
• Facilitate scholarly communication

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RepositoryExampleContent

• Data Sets
• Simulations
• Lab books
• Papers
• Theses and Dissertations
• Images, Audio, Video

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TDL ETD Repository Search
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Texas AM UniversityDigital Repository
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• Provides for student submission of digital theses
  and dissertations
• Provides for workflow and management of ETDs in
  the Graduate office
• Provides for publishing in the Institutional
  Repository

ETD Submission and Management System
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Student Submission
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Filter List of ETDs
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• Provided for a small fee (50 per course)
• Hosted by Baylor University
• Train on all services
• Train the trainers
• Member commitments

Training
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Planning for a Helpdesk

• Staffed M-F, 8am to 5pm
• To be hosted by Texas Tech University
• Help on all services
• Telephone, email, chat and video conference

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Future Services

• Conference Management System (OCS)
• Manuscript Management System (OMS)
• Learning Object Repository (LOR)
• Archival Resources Management System (TARO)
• Preservation Network System (PresNet)

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Opportunities for Collaboration

• Sharing of open source systems
• Vireo (ETD system)
• Sharing of lessons learned in building
  large-scale digital lib
• TCDL
• Collaborating to build digital collections
• Mexican incunabula

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Opportunities for Collaboration

• Participation in scholarly communication services
• Shared project wikis
• Open access journal
• e.g. biological journal of regional interest
• Joint Research projects
• PresNet nodes
• Storage and compute clouds

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Discussion
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