A Digital Commons Forum

8/5/2009 1/26/2010 Paul Royster & Sue Ann Gardner

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Growing the UNL Digital Commons

New Content added, by year

8393 7118 5977 2397 FY 2006 FY 2007 FY 2008 FY 2009

Rank in U.S.

1. University of Michigan Deep Blue: 46,770 documents 48,055 2. UNL Digital Commons: 35,650 documents 38,329 3. everybody else Satchel Paige: "Don't look back; something might be gaining on you."

Usage: 137,072 downloads in May 2009 160 000 140 000 120 000 100 000 80 000 60 000 40 000 20 000 0 UNL Digital Commons: OA Contents & Monthly Usage Articles Downloads  November 2009: 152,865 downloads

77% of Open-Access content was downloaded in May 2009 5 320 23% Downloaded Not downloaded 17 460 77%

Faculty Publications, Department of Psychology

http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/psychfacpub/ 367 articles → 5,008 downloads avg. = 13.6

Robert Katz* Publications

http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/physicskatz/ 190 articles →   1,357 downloads avg. = 7.1

* retired in 1987

UNL Larsen Tractor Museum Archives

http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/tractormuseumlit/ 2,274 articles →  16,648 downloads avg. = 7.3

Dissertations: Department of History

http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/historydiss/ 19 documents → 994 downloads avg. = 52.3

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Dissertations: Modern Languages and Literatures

http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/modlangdiss/ 6 documents →  984 downloads avg. = 164.0 !!

Most Downloaded Work:

Online Dictionary of Invertebrate Zoology http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/onlinedictinvertzoology/ 1 document →    824 downloads 24 documents (including separate letters) →    1,903 downloads

36,000 downloads (26%) went to international users

3,999 United Kingdom 3,856 Canada 3,109 India 2,261 Australia 1,363 Germany 1,148 France 1,126 China 878 Brazil 848 Spain 773 Mexico 743 South Africa 723 Italy 645 Pakistan 629 Turkey 619 Poland 147 countries in all (plus the USA)

10% of our traffic comes from within the state of Nebraska (pop. 1.7 million).

About 7% of site traffic comes from Lincoln, NE

• Search engines

Google

Yahoo other search • Referring sites

Wikipedia

UNL websites Online Books Page other • Direct traffic

Traffic Sources

56.0%

4.2% 3.1 %

9.5%

6.0% 1.2% 9.7% 10.3% ──── 100.0% 63.3% 26.4% 10.3% ──── 100.0%

How have we done this in the face of Faculty Apathy ?

Despite the proliferation of IRs, most faculty are not motivated to self-archive or deposit their works.

IR

Answer

:

Provide Services

“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and it looks like work.”

—

Thomas Edison

Services UNL Digital Commons provides:

• • • • • • • • • permissioning hunting and gathering scanning typesetting metadata-ing uploading & posting usage reporting promoting POD publication

Other services available

• copyright consultation & advice • NIH PubMed Central policies and deposits • conference/symposium websites • e-journals publication

Our standing offer:

"Give us your permission (and a publication list, if possible), and we will do the rest."

The Good Guys

Some publishers allow use of the published version of an article: American Physical Society American Institute of Physics Company of Biologists University of Chicago Press IEEE American Astronomical Society American Library Association American Mathematical Society Am. Soc. Agricultural & Biological Eng.

American Society of Microbiologists Hindawi Publishing Cambridge University Press Duke University Press BioMed Central Research Council of Canada Animal Science Association Society of Mammalogists Entomological Society of America

Good | Evil

Less than perfect, but better than some, these publishers have given authors permission to post an “author’s version,”  but not their exact publisher’s version: Elsevier Springer Institute of Physics Oxford University Press Lippincott Nature Publishing Group Am Assn Advancement Science Wiley/Blackwell Taylor & Francis Sage Publications American Psychological Association National Academy of Sciences American Society of Civil Engineers

Evil only

These publishers do not allow full-text posting of any versions: American Chemical Society American Meteorological Society American Sociological Association American Society of Mechanical Engineers Karger Publishers Geological Society of America American School Psychology Association Mary Ann Liebert Society of Plant Biologists

OA content by permissions status (at UNL)

1% 11% 25% 33% 30%

Publisher's version Public domain UNL copyright Author version Original content

Areas of greatest success

• • • • • • • • physics animal science psychology agronomy virology / microbiology / biochemistry biological sciences natural resources wildlife damage management

• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Terry Klopfenstein Robert Katz Peter Dowben Anthony Starace Kenneth Bloom Vadim Gladyshev John Woollam James Van Etten Paul Johnsgard Guy Reynolds Thomas Winter Patricia Freeman Brett Ratcliffe Scott Gardner Pat Crews Hugh Genoways John Wunder Russell Ganim Marshall Olds Carole Levin Margaret Latta Loukia Sarroub Edward Hamann Xiao Cheng Zeng Randall Snyder Participants include • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Stephen Burnett Susan Sheridan Charles Wood Francis Haskins Sherilyn Fritz Susan Fritz Mary Anne Holmes Bob Diffendal Geoffrey Friesen Thomas Zorn Blair Siegfried Susan Lawrence Xiang-Fa Wu Sidnie White Crawford Carolyn Pope Edwards Gustavo Carlo Marcella Raffaelli Maria Rosario de Guzman Jay Storz Eileen Hebets Anthony Zera Gautam Sarath Mary Uhl-Bien Julia McQuillan Les Whitbeck • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Kimberly Tyler Dan Hoyt Alan Tomkins Brian Bornstein Caren Barnes Barbara DiBernard Margaret Jacobs David Moshman Dale Van Vleck Charlie Bernholz Fred Luthans Amy Burnett Alison Stewart Melissa Homestead Peter Harms Kimberly Espy Barbara Couture Joan Giesecke Elaine Westbrooks Charles Bernholz Sandra Zellmer Dana Boden Donald A. Wilhite Kenneth Cassman

Whole departments/centers we are authorized to collect & upload: • • • • • • • • College of Business Administration Department of Chemistry Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department of Engineering Mechanics Agricultural Leadership, Education & Communication Department Nebraska Center for Materials and Nanoscience Materials Research Science and Engineering Center Nebraska Center for Virology

Original Publications

Feedback

The most popular feature and best recruitment tool for our institutional repository is the download report generated automatically every month and emailed to each author: Dear Author, As a service to our authors, we are pleased to provide you with a monthly report tracking readership for your articles: "A Brief and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia (1588)" 359 full-text downloads between 2009-09-02 and 2009-10-02 3852 full-text downloads since date of posting (2007-06-25) No commercial publisher offers this service.

What might liaisons (& others) do? 1.

Evaluate our holdings and steer us to content, areas, or faculty we haven't yet found

2.

Talk to faculty 1-on-1 about our services

3.

Help find and collect content ("hunting and gathering")

4.

Identify university publications or public domain resources we should collect

5.

Outreach/marketing: Identify web sites or pages that could link back to the IR

Why would I ?

Your department's faculty will appreciate it.

Dear Dean Giesecke; I feel compelled to write and thank you for your support of UN-L's Digital Commons program, and especially for Paul Royster's enormous help and encouragement of me to participate in it. Because of his interest and willingness to undertake some large projects, I have been able to make freely available on-line five book-length manuscripts that would never otherwise have been published in my lifetime, have updated two previously published books, and have also made available four of my out-of-print books and over 30 of my published papers and articles that originally often had very limited circulation. I also have been stimulated to undertake or complete some additional writing projects that I never would otherwise have finished, since I would have felt the resulting manuscripts to be unpublishable for financial or other reasons.

All told, the Digital Commons has allowed me to make unusually effective use of my time since my retirement, and believe that I can still make my contributions matter and my influence felt at a national and international level. I am extremely grateful.

Sincerely Paul Johnsgard Foundation Professor of Biological Sciences Emeritus [emphasis added]

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