UNLDigital Commons: Your Institutional Repository

Authors

Paul Royster, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow

ORCID IDs

Paul Royster

Date of this Version

3-2-2010

Document Type

Article

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Invited presentation to UNL Faculty Senate, March 2, 2010

Abstract

An Institutional Repository is an online locus for collecting, preserving, and disseminating —in digital form —the intellectual output of an institution, particularly a research institution.
There are > 900 worldwide, > 150 in USA, including: ...
UNL's ranks 2nd, with more than 39,000 documents.
UNL Participants include [100 names]
There are some whole departments/centers that we have been authorized to collect & upload.
Who has the most articles ?
Who gets the most downloads ?
Downloads: •3.6 million since 2006; •1.5 million in past 12 months; •Current average = 5,000 /day; •Average article = 5 times/month; •to 150+ countries worldwide (25% of usage is international)
Every month authors get an email with: Usage Statistics for your DigitalCommons@Universityof Nebraska -Lincoln articles ...
Traffic Sources: Search engines 63%, Referring sites 26%, Direct traffic 10%
Copyright & Permissions: 1.Inclusion in the repository does not alter an article's copyright status. 2.We only post articles for which we can obtain the publisher's or copyright holder's permission. (About 80% of publishers allow some version to be used.)
The Good Guys: Some publishers allow use of the published version of an article: [list]
Good | Evil :Less than perfect, but better than some, these publishers have given permission to post an “author’s version,” but not the exact publisher’s version: [list]
Evil only: These publishers do not allow full-text posting of any versions: [list]
Open Access content by permissions status (at UNL)
How do I get my articles into the repository ? 1.email me your vita (or publication list) proyster@unl.edu; 2.( There is no step 2. )
Services UNLDigital Commons provides: •permissioning •hunting and gathering •scanning •typesetting •metadata-ing •uploading & posting •usage reporting •promoting •POD publication
Can I do it myself ? Yes. [how-to]
Paying for Open Access: Most publishers will make your article "open access" for a fee —up to $5,000; so-called "Gold OA". But it still won't be exposed to most search engines, and many non-subscribers will never find it.
"Self"-Archiving for Open Access: Most publishers will allow you to self-archive for free —this also makes your article open access; so-called "Green OA". And Google, GoogleScholar, etc. will index it and send users there.
We also do Original Publications

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