HELIN DIGITAL COMMONS: A CONSORTIUM OF INSTITUTIONAL REPOSITORIES

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HELIN DIGITAL COMMONSA CONSORTIUM OF
INSTITUTIONAL REPOSITORIES

• Martha Rice Sanders
• HELIN Knowledge Management Librarian

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HELIN DIGITAL COMMONS

• Funded by a grant from the Davis Educational
  Foundation
• Covers cost of subscribing for two years
• Grant awarded December 2005
• First site available January 2006

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HELIN PARTICIPATING INSTITUTIONS

• Bryant University
• CCRI
• Johnson Wales University
• Providence College
• RIC
• Roger Williams University
• Salve Regina University
• URI
• Wheaton College

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Institutional Repositories

• Institutional Repositories (IR) Digital
  collections that preserve and provide access to
  the intellectual output of an institution.
• Raym Crow The case for institutional
  repositories a SPARC position paper. 2002.
• IRs might contain
• Pre-prints (pre-refereed papers) or Post-prints
  (post-refereed papers)
• Undergraduate senior or honor theses
• Non-static resources (e.g., sound and video
  files)
• Conference papers
• Reports
• Journals
• Presentations
• Etc.

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Benefits of an IR

• The University
• Can manage and showcase institutional information
  assets (articles, working papers, etc.) under one
  site
• The University Researcher (Authors)
• Enjoys wide and rapid dissemination of content
• The Research Community
• Is able to enhance innovation due to free
  information sharing

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Architecture Administration

• Acceptance of a wide variety of publication types
  (e.g., articles, preprints, monographs, reports)
• Ability to publish non-static resources such as
  sound and video files, data sets, and executables
• OAI compliant documents can be immediately
  found in Google and other web search engines
• Full-text searching
• Usage statistics at the publication and paper
  level

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Stability Portability

• Service hosted at secure, redundant ISPs
• URLs are in institutions domain
• http//digitalcommons.uri.edu
• Upon termination, objects will be delivered for
  importing into a new repository

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Digital Commons Connections

• Confirmation email to Authors
• Authors receive an email when the paper is posted
  providing the URL for distribution
• Monthly email to Authors
• Provides usage, link to content (for
  distribution), and link/email to series to submit
  additional work
• Audience Notification
• System can email interested audience notification
  of new content added

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HELIN UMBRELLA SITE
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URI HOME SITE
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URI PHOTOGRAPH ARCHIVES
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URI CHAFEE AUDIO ARCHIVES
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BRYANT U. FACULTY PAPERS
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PERSONAL RESEARCHER PAGES