Digital Commons is a best-in-class cloud-hosted solution for institutions to openly publish, manage and promote to the world the full spectrum of their work. Nearly 600 institutions – and growing – use Digital Commons to preserve and promote their intellectual output and expertise.

One of the primary purposes of the IR is to serve an institution’s faculty by representing the full breadth of their works.  However, creating a comprehensive archive is one of the hardest, most burdensome challenges for IR managers.

Register now to learn about the new Scopus-to-Digital Commons harvesting API, which can save IR managers up to 90% of the time it typically takes to add faculty publication records into the IR. 

Hear from two institutions, Michigan Technological University and Missouri University of Science and Technology, as they share their experiences using the API to populate their IRs and showcase their faculty’s work to the world.

Live audience Q&A will follow.

Presenters:
- Shandon Quinn, VP Product Management, Digital Commons
- Annelise Doll, Scholarly Communications and Repositories Librarian, Michigan Tech University
- Nancy Krost, Institutional Repository Coordinator, Missouri University of Science and Technology

How to Populate Your IR in Less Time: Harvesting Scopus Data in Digital Commons

A small team at CCT College Dublin was given a very big goal. A new IR and faculty profiling tool from Digital Commons was provided to enable strategic developments pertaining to institutional scholarly activity. In the span of little more than a year – and in the midst of COVID - Team CCT  has made quick strides in using their IR to underpin and showcase teaching and learning activities, student achievement, quality and enhancement projects, research activity (including student research), and sectoral engagement. Although in the relatively early stages of development, the IR is now successfully embedded across many institutional activities with further plans in the pipeline which will be explored in this webinar.

During this one hour program we’ll cover the following topics:
1.  Library Services and the IR Team at CCT College  
2.  Tailoring IR Design To Your Context 
3.  Strategic Application of the IR at CCT 
4.   Student Work, A Catalyst for IR Engagement

There will be time for Q&A so be ready for an engaging conversation

Making the IR Work for your Context, CCT College Dublin: A Case Study

Librarians are powerful advocates for informing and engaging their researchers in the open science landscape. In this webinar, Elsevier product managers will present collaborative tools that enable your researchers to discover data, share scholarly insights, and improve their research outcomes.

•Open data sets that support research collaboration across disciplines
•Enhancing user experience for open access across research products 
•Driving the future of open science through partnerships 
•Building global visibility and impact with Diamond OA journals and OERs
•Open access options for sharing early stage research and preprints 

Presenters:

Promita Chatterji, Product Manager, Digital Commons Journals
Shirley Decker-Lucke, Content Director, SSRN
Wouter Haak, VP Research Data Management, Elsevier
Sebastien Schlosser, Director of Strategic Business Development, Elsevier
Steve Watson, Director of Product Management, Elsevier

Open science tools for discovering, promoting and sharing research

Open Educational Resources (OER) ensure students have equal and immediate access to course materials needed to succeed. The pandemic has left institutions in a budget crisis as they scramble to safely deliver a quality educational experience. Students face unemployment in increasing numbers. Libraries need low cost and no cost tactics to ensure quality OER content and programs continue to meet growing demand. This hour-long webinar will provide viewers with tactics and information libraries need to continue to deliver quality OER materials to students and faculty.
 
Key topics:
- Conversation about copyright guidance and deals regarding textbooks 
- Textbook statements and adding open license   
- Reuse versus create - less resource intensive approaches
- Thinking beyond the institution - state and federal funding opportunities
- Things you can do for free

No money for OER program?

Universities face great COVID-related uncertainties. What can the library bring to the table to help with enrollment, the student experience, and support for research in an increasingly virtual environment?  Many librarians are recognizing their institutional repository (IR) can bolster their university’s mission in times like these. Across the Digital Commons Community, we have seen dramatic increases in both interest from and submissions by authors as they look for better ways to share their works remotely. This 45-minute webinar will show you innovative trends on how the Digital Commons Community is using the IR to meet emerging COVID-related needs on campus:
 
•Student recruitment and enrollment: providing prospective and incoming students an immersive view into research and scholarship opportunities
•Student engagement and retention: providing hands-on ways for current students to participate virtually in academia
•Research in a hybrid future: preparing the university for an easy switch to virtual conferences, virtual poster sessions and virtual exhibits
•Critical information-sharing: providing a rapid way for faculty members to disseminate breaking primary research with global visibility
 
The challenges of COVID-19 to higher education will be long-lasting. A robust repository program is a cornerstone for universities to maintain their presence in this new hybrid environment — and represents an opportunity to increase institutional reputation ahead of the curve.

Supporting students & researchers: Using the IR to respond to COVID-19

“The IR is meant to be as complete and comprehensive as possible.” – IR administrator, R1 public university 

One of the primary purposes of the IR is to serve an institution’s faculty, by representing their works comprehensively.  And yet, this is one of the hardest, most burdensome challenges for IR managers. 

In this webinar, get a next-level look at the upcoming Scopus-Digital Commons integration to automatically populate your IR at scale with faculty publication records. The presentation walks viewers through the following features: 
- Ease of use – no technical skills required
- Record deduplication of IR faculty research content
- Auto population of upload spreadsheets
- Flagging OA content 

We’ll also demonstrate the value of Scopus data and let you know how Digital Commons customers will be provided with access to Scopus data as part of the release launch. 

Learn how this new tool can save IR managers up to 75% of the time it takes to add faculty publication records into their IR.

Automatically populate your IR: Harvesting Scopus data into Digital Commons

With conferences and events cancelled left and right, libraries closing, and distance learning in place, virtual meetings and classes are the new status quo for many institutions. The conference schedule was already prepared. Your faculty had their paper accepted, your students had their posters ready to present, and now, how to help? On April 22, join Elisabeth Shook and Kimberly Holling of Boise State University as they describe how they're using the institutional repository to continue promoting research and scholarship during a time when online access is more important than ever. Attendees will come away with ideas for continuing or expanding IR services, including:
• Best practices for supporting conferences in the IR, including getting started quickly
• The benefits of hosting conference materials on the IR
• Strategies to reach faculty and students during a time of distance learning
• New materials to support on the IR as institutions find a new status quo

Saving the cancelled conference: Supporting conferences and events with your IR

While citation counts remain a paramount metric of scholarly influence, a growing number of institutional stakeholders are asking questions about how best to demonstrate impact on community, society and public policy. With the right tools, the broader impact of openly shared scholarship can be more readily measured.
 
Through a new integration with PlumX Metrics, Digital Commons can shine a brighter light on the impact of open scholarship in the institutional repository through our new integrated dashboard. Join Ann Connolly, Director of Product, Digital Commons, for an IR-focused journey through the new integration. By reporting on more measures of impact, IR administrators and managers can partner with even more of their stakeholders on mission-critical activities such as securing funding, identifying collaborators and forming partnerships with industry. Whether you are a librarian, institution-led journal editor, researcher or senior administrator, the webinar will share real-time customer examples and case studies on how you can better show — and tell — your institution’s impact story.

Beyond citations: PlumX Metrics integrates with Digital Commons dashboards

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