Description
As the world‟s leading hosted institutional repository platform, Digital Commons and SelectedWorks offer a suite of services designed to collect, organize, and showcase scholarship on the web. By offering scholarly publishing support services and resources to highlight the academic work being done on their campuses, academic libraries are quickly becoming the center of scholarly publishing for their institution. In this session, Annie Teng from bepress will give an overview of Digital Commons and Selected Works. Emily Asch will discuss St. Catherine University‟s recent implementation of these intertwined resources and show how they are being used to highlight and promote the published works of their St. Kate's faculty. Johan Oberg will highlight Macalester‟s use of Digital Commons to promote: undergraduate scholarly work, honors research projects, undergraduate academic journals published on campus, and a multimedia e-book publication that features streaming audio and video.
ABOUT THE PRESENTERS: Emily Asch is Head of Technical Services at St. Catherine University; Johan Oberg is the Digital Scholarship & Electronic Resources Librarian at Macalester College; and Annie Teng is sales manager for Digital Commons at Berkeley Electronic Press.
Start Date
16-3-2011 2:30 PM
End Date
16-3-2011 4:00 PM
Digital Commons and SelectedWorks: The Hub of Academic Life on Campus
As the world‟s leading hosted institutional repository platform, Digital Commons and SelectedWorks offer a suite of services designed to collect, organize, and showcase scholarship on the web. By offering scholarly publishing support services and resources to highlight the academic work being done on their campuses, academic libraries are quickly becoming the center of scholarly publishing for their institution. In this session, Annie Teng from bepress will give an overview of Digital Commons and Selected Works. Emily Asch will discuss St. Catherine University‟s recent implementation of these intertwined resources and show how they are being used to highlight and promote the published works of their St. Kate's faculty. Johan Oberg will highlight Macalester‟s use of Digital Commons to promote: undergraduate scholarly work, honors research projects, undergraduate academic journals published on campus, and a multimedia e-book publication that features streaming audio and video.
ABOUT THE PRESENTERS: Emily Asch is Head of Technical Services at St. Catherine University; Johan Oberg is the Digital Scholarship & Electronic Resources Librarian at Macalester College; and Annie Teng is sales manager for Digital Commons at Berkeley Electronic Press.