Webinar Series on Institutional Repositories

Supported by Berkeley Electronic Press, this series of webinars on institutional repositories is based on the presentations at the ALCTS 2009 Midwinter Symposium. The sessions have included a brief history of institutional repositories, key benefits and possible obstacles to a successful IR implementation, and a discussion of the future of the institutional repository within the larger context of the rapidly changing scholarly communication landscape.

Additional Resources for Institutional Repositories

   Yours, Mine, Ours? Copyright Ownership and IRs

Presented by Dwayne K. Buttler
Wednesday, October 28 at 2pm Eastern (11am Pacific; noon Mountain; 1pm Central)
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Assessing who owns intellectual property (IP) has become a global obsession and often a necessity in the university and library communities, particularly for copyrighted works. The intense focus on ownership has not altered a longstanding concern about managing copyright: misunderstandings can obscure principles of using copyrighted works and sometimes produce wayward “IP” policies “allocating” ownership of copyright in problematic ways. This conversation will address principles of copyright ownership under U.S. copyright law and identify possibilities for managing copyright for IRs.

Dwayne K. Buttler (dwayne.buttler@louisville.edu) serves as the first Evelyn J. Schneider Endowed Chair for Scholarly Communication at the University of Louisville and holds a faculty appointment as a Professor in University Libraries. Much of his work focuses on the complex interrelationship of copyright law, and activities at the core of the teaching, learning, and scholarly communication.

Professor Buttler earned a Doctor of Jurisprudence degree from the Indiana University School of Law-Indianapolis and holds a BA in Telecommunications from Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis.  He teaches mass communication law at the University of Louisville and leads numerous invited presentations on copyright and scholarly communication for audiences of administrators, faculty, librarians, and scholars in the library and education communities.  

   Bringing Research Data into the Library: Expanding the Horizons of Institutional Repositories

Presented by MacKenzie Smith
Tuesday, November 10 at 2pm Eastern (11am Pacific; noon Mountain; 1pm Central)
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The focus of Library-managed Institutional Repositories has so far been on document-like items (published articles, preprints, theses, reports, working papers, etc.) but there is growing demand to expand their use into new genres such as scientific research datasets (sensor readings, genomics data, neuroimages, etc.). The presentation will explain how IRs are including this type of collection, what librarians need to know in order to manage such collections, and a few case studies from the MIT Libraries.

MacKenzie Smith (kenzie@mit.edu) is the Associate Director for Technology at the MIT Libraries, where she oversees the Libraries' technology strategy and its digital library research and development program. Her research agenda focuses on Semantic Web applications for scholarly communication, distributed digital library architectures, and research data curation, including long-term data preservation. She was the Project Director at MIT for the DSpace open source software digital archiving platform and has considerable expertise developing and sustaining large open source software communities. Prior to joining MIT, MacKenzie was the Digital Library Program Manager for the Harvard University Library, and held several IT positions at the Harvard and the University of Chicago Library. Her academic background is in Library and Information Science, and her research interests are in applied technology for libraries and academia, and digital libraries and archives in particular.

   The Potential of Partnerships: Dissolving Silos for a Successful IR Implementation

Presented by Marilyn Billings
Wednesday, December 16 at 2pm Eastern (11am Pacific; noon Mountain; 1pm Central)
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This webinar will use the University of Massachusetts’ institutional repository as a case study to explore how the new digital repository service has affected the way librarians envision our place in the future of the academy, how the academy is changing its view of the library’s role, new tools and skills that we are developing to fulfill this service, and new partnerships that we have created and fostered to exploit this new vision. We hope to foster discussion and provide insights and opportunities for further exploration of how the role of libraries as publishers enables us to be key partners in the creation, dissemination, and archiving of academic scholarship.

Marilyn Billings (mbillings@library.umass.edu) is the Scholarly Communication & Special Initiatives Librarian
at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She provides campus-wide leadership and education in alternative scholarly communication strategies and is frequently an invited speaker at faculty department colloquia. She gives presentations on author rights, alternative digital publishing models and the role of digital repositories in today's research and scholarship endeavors at the regional, national, and international levels. As co-PI on an NSF funded grant to create an Ethics Clearinghouse in response to the America COMPETES Act, Marilyn works closely with faculty, researchers, and administrative staff and organizes programs on many new and emerging topics. Another key aspect of her responsibilities includes the oversight of the institutional repository ScholarWorks @ UMass Amherst. Recent presentations include "The Academic Library as Publishing Agent: showcasing student, faculty, and campus scholarship and publications” with Terri Fishel at the Association of Research Libraries in Seattle, WA in January 2009; “Exploring Ways That Institutional Repositories Facilitate New Roles and Partnerships for Libraries and the Academy” at the Czech and Slovak Library Information Network (CASLIN) conference in June 2009, and providing workshops at numerous institutions. Her presentation “Changing Scholarly Communications and the Role of an Institutional Repository in the Digital Landscape” appears in the ACRL Scholarly Communication

Registration and Fees

To register, complete the online registration form for the session you would like to attend. 

Individual Rates:

ALCTS Members: $39 each webinar; any 3 webinars for $99 (save $18); any 5 webinars for $159 (save $36); any 7 webinars for $219 (save $54)

Non-Members, $49 each webinar; any 3 webinars for $129 (save $18); any 5 webinars for $209 (save $36); any 7 webinars for $289 (save $54)

Group Rates:

ALCTS Members & Non-Members: $99 each webinar; any 3 webinars for $269 (save $28); any 5 webinars for $439 (save $56); any 7 webinars for $609 (save $84)

*The one-time fee includes unlimited access to the webinar recording and materials.

Questions

For questions about registration, contact Tom Ferren, ALA Senior Registration Coordinator at (312) 280-4293 or 1-800-545-2433, ext. 4293; or email at tferren@ala.org.

For all other questions or comments related to the webinars, contact Julie Reese, ALCTS Events Manager at (312) 280-5034 or 1-800-545-2433, ext. 5034; or email at jreese@ala.org.

   Institutional Repositories: The Promises of Yesterday and of Tomorrow

Presented by Greg Tananbaum on April 8, 2009

Webinar recording (.wmv)

Based on his keynote addresses at the ALCTS 2009 Midwinter Symposium, this introductory webinar will include a brief history of institutional repositories and discuss the key benefits as well as the possible obstacles to a successful IR implementation. The presentation will also consider the future of the institutional repository within the larger context of the rapidly changing scholarly communication landscape and provide the framework for the series of webinars to follow.

Greg Tananbaum runs ScholarNext, a consulting firm focusing on issues at the intersection of technology, content, and academia. Clients include publishers, technology companies, universities, libraries, non-profit organizations, startups, and other scholarly communication entities. ScholarNext works with clients on a broad variety of issues, including understanding and developing Web 2.0 functionality, strategic planning, business development, management consulting, and policy analysis. Greg has more than a dozen years' experience in the space. In addition to his consulting work, he has served as President of The Berkeley Electronic Press, as well as Director of Product Marketing for EndNote. Greg writes a regular column in Against the Grain covering emerging developments in the field of scholarly communication. He has been as an invited speaker at dozens of conferences, including the American Library Association, the Society for Scholarly Publishing, the Association of Professional and Learned Society Publishers, and Online Information UK. He holds a Master's Degree from the London School of Economics and a B.A. from Yale University.

   Beyond the Institutional Repository: Campus Research Distribution Strategies

Presented by Marilyn Moody on May 6, 2009

Webinar recording (.wmv)

The idea that universities and libraries ought to be more involved in developing a university's research distribution policy and developing strategies for the distribution of research and scholarship is one that is sparking a lot of interest among provosts and other university administrators. Institutional repositories provide an important infrastructure for developing research distribution strategies, but many other aspects such as scholarly communication issues, copyright issues, campus publishing policies and strategies, faculty copyright and intellectual property education and issues, electronic theses and dissertations, and open access publishing must also be part of the discussion.

This webinar develops a framework for thinking about research distribution policies and strategies and uses Boise State University as a case study. It also provides librarians with strategies for selling the institutional repository concept and working with administrators and others on campus.

Marilyn K. Moody is Dean of the University Library at Boise State University. Her responsibilities include providing leadership for all aspects of library services and collections. Marilyn’s interests include scholarly communication issues and the development of research distribution policies and strategies. She is the co-author with Jean L. Sears of three editions of the reference work Using Government Information Sources. She has also authored articles and book chapters and given presentations on a range of topics including government information, distance learning, and the impact of technology on libraries.

   Generating Campus Buy-In for Your IR

Presented by Marisa Ramirez and Michael D. Miller on June 10, 2009

Webinar recording (.wmv)

How do you translate the value of an institutional repository to campus leaders, faculty and other key campus groups? Marisa Ramirez, Digital Repository Librarian and Michael D. Miller, Dean of Library Services (California Polytechnic State University) will discuss strategies for marketing your IR to campus and ways of demonstrating the return on investment. Offering perspectives from repository management and library administration, you will learn how Cal Poly has expanded the role of their IR as a vital component of the campus scholarly and research community.

Marisa Ramirez is Digital Repository Librarian, California Polytechnic State University is primarily responsible for the development and implementation of the DigitalCommons@CalPoly, a digital repository that provides online open access to scholarship and research produced by Cal Poly faculty and students. She is collaborating with library and academic departments across campus to bring new visibility to Cal Poly scholarly work. Her current research interests include digital preservation and curation, the role of technology in social networking exchanges, and the adoption and use cycles of new information technologies.

Prior to joining Cal Poly, she was the digital repository coordinator for the Arizona Memory Project (http://azmemory.lib.az.us), a digital library initiative based out of the Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records Department. In this position, she led the initiative in developing, implementing, monitoring and promoting the library’s institutional repository. She has also been active with digital library projects at University of North Carolina –Chapel Hill and Smithsonian Institution Libraries.

Michael D. Miller is Dean of Library Services at California Polytechnic State University where he is responsible for the collections, services, and technology offered by the Robert E. Kennedy Library. Prior to this position, Mike was Director of Arts and Engineering Libraries at the University of Michigan. He was one of the founding Directors of the Duderstadt Center, the University of Michigan’s showcase for information and instructional technology. He also held positions at Stanford University, George Mason University, and at the Avery Fisher Center for Music and Media at New York University.

   Open Access: Key Trends

Presented by Heather Morrison on September 23, 2009

Webinar recording (.wmv) available soon

While content recruitment at the local IR may seem slow and painful, from a global/historical perspective, the growth of open access in all its flavors is nothing short of phenomenal. The benefits of the IR for authors and for institutions will become more and more apparent in the near future. The chicken will emerge from the egg, and the IR will be seen as a great career choice. This session will provide an overview of the latest key trends in open access: why we need green as well as gold, both institutional and disciplinary repositories, and open access policies to fill the repositories. Institutional open access policies will be highlighted, introducing different types of policies, what makes for good policy, and approaches to open access policy development at the university.

Heather Morrison is a well-known open access advocate who has written and presented extensively on topics relating to open access and scholarly communication. Heather is Project Coordinator for BC Electronic Library Network, a consortium of post-secondary libraries in British Columbia, Adjunct Faculty at the University of British Columbia's School of Library, Archival and Information Studies (SLAIS), PhD Student at Simon Fraser University's School of Communication, author of Scholarly Communication for Librarians (Chandos, 2009), and the scholarly blog The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com.

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