HELIN DIGITAL HELIN DIGITAL COMMONS:COMMONS:

A CONSORTIUM OF A CONSORTIUM OF INSTITUTIONAL INSTITUTIONAL REPOSITORIESREPOSITORIES

Martha Rice SandersMartha Rice Sanders

HELIN Knowledge Management LibrarianHELIN Knowledge Management Librarian

HELIN DIGITAL HELIN DIGITAL COMMONSCOMMONS

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Grant awarded December 2005Grant awarded December 2005

First site available January 2006First site available January 2006

HELIN PARTICIPATING HELIN PARTICIPATING INSTITUTIONSINSTITUTIONS

Bryant UniversityBryant University CCRICCRI Johnson & Wales UniversityJohnson & Wales University Providence CollegeProvidence College RICRIC Roger Williams UniversityRoger Williams University Salve Regina UniversitySalve Regina University URIURI Wheaton CollegeWheaton College

Institutional Institutional RepositoriesRepositories

Institutional Repositories (IR): “Digital Institutional Repositories (IR): “Digital collections that preserve and provide access collections that preserve and provide access to the intellectual output of an institution.”*to the intellectual output of an institution.”** Raym Crow * Raym Crow The case for institutional repositories: a SPARC position paperThe case for institutional repositories: a SPARC position paper. . 2002.2002.

IRs might contain:IRs might contain: Pre-prints (pre-refereed papers) or Post-prints Pre-prints (pre-refereed papers) or Post-prints

(post-refereed papers)(post-refereed papers) Undergraduate senior or honor thesesUndergraduate senior or honor theses Non-static resources (e.g., sound and video files)Non-static resources (e.g., sound and video files) Conference papersConference papers ReportsReports JournalsJournals PresentationsPresentations Etc.Etc.

Benefits of an IRBenefits of an IR

The UniversityThe University Can manage and showcase institutional Can manage and showcase institutional

information assets (articles, working information assets (articles, working papers, etc.) under one sitepapers, etc.) under one site

The University Researcher (Authors)The University Researcher (Authors) Enjoys wide and rapid dissemination of Enjoys wide and rapid dissemination of

contentcontent The Research CommunityThe Research Community

Is able to enhance innovation due to free Is able to enhance innovation due to free information sharinginformation sharing

Architecture & Architecture & AdministrationAdministration

Acceptance of a wide variety of Acceptance of a wide variety of publication types (e.g., articles, preprints, publication types (e.g., articles, preprints, monographs, reports)monographs, reports)

Ability to publish non-static resources Ability to publish non-static resources such as sound and video files, data sets, such as sound and video files, data sets, and executablesand executables

OAI compliant – documents can be OAI compliant – documents can be immediately found in Google and other immediately found in Google and other web search enginesweb search engines

Full-text searchingFull-text searching Usage statistics at the publication and Usage statistics at the publication and

paper levelpaper level

Stability & Portability

Service hosted at secure, redundant Service hosted at secure, redundant ISPsISPs

URLs are in institution’s domainURLs are in institution’s domain http://digitalcommons.uri.eduhttp://digitalcommons.uri.edu

Upon termination, objects will be Upon termination, objects will be delivered for importing into a new delivered for importing into a new repositoryrepository

Digital Commons Digital Commons ConnectionsConnections

Confirmation email to AuthorsConfirmation email to Authors Authors receive an email when the paper Authors receive an email when the paper

is posted providing the URL for is posted providing the URL for distributiondistribution

Monthly email to AuthorsMonthly email to Authors Provides usage, link to content (for Provides usage, link to content (for

distribution), and link/email to series to distribution), and link/email to series to submit additional worksubmit additional work

Audience NotificationAudience Notification System can email interested audience System can email interested audience

notification of new content addednotification of new content added

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URI ‘HOME’ SITEURI ‘HOME’ SITE

URI PHOTOGRAPH URI PHOTOGRAPH ARCHIVESARCHIVES

URI CHAFEE AUDIO URI CHAFEE AUDIO ARCHIVESARCHIVES

BRYANT U. FACULTY BRYANT U. FACULTY PAPERSPAPERS

PERSONAL RESEARCHER PERSONAL RESEARCHER PAGESPAGES