Location
Room 255
Start Date
23-10-2017 2:00 PM
End Date
23-10-2017 3:00 PM
Description
UCSF faculty passed an Open Access Policy in 2012, yet it wasn’t until a partially automated research information management system (RIS) was in place in 2015 that there was any measurable increase in deposits to the institutional repository. Despite this uptick, overall engagement with the RIS as well as deposits were lower than the university wanted them to be. In an effort to increase participation with the policy, the UCSF Library embarked on a six-month project to improve the RIS search results and ramp up the deposit rate.
This talk will present the scenario before the project, the methods used to improve results in the RIS, and the approaches that were and weren’t successful at getting more content accessible to the public. It will include how the project has helped the Library understand its community better and how to manage support for the policy moving forward with special consideration to the large scale of the scholarly output at UCSF.
Included in
Cataloging and Metadata Commons, Scholarly Communication Commons, Scholarly Publishing Commons
Life Support for the Open Access Policy
Room 255
UCSF faculty passed an Open Access Policy in 2012, yet it wasn’t until a partially automated research information management system (RIS) was in place in 2015 that there was any measurable increase in deposits to the institutional repository. Despite this uptick, overall engagement with the RIS as well as deposits were lower than the university wanted them to be. In an effort to increase participation with the policy, the UCSF Library embarked on a six-month project to improve the RIS search results and ramp up the deposit rate.
This talk will present the scenario before the project, the methods used to improve results in the RIS, and the approaches that were and weren’t successful at getting more content accessible to the public. It will include how the project has helped the Library understand its community better and how to manage support for the policy moving forward with special consideration to the large scale of the scholarly output at UCSF.
