Increasing the visibility and reputation of Extension and Outreach
- 1. Digital Repository @ Iowa State University Increasing the visibility and reputation of Extension and Outreach Harrison W. Inefuku Digital Repository Coordinator Iowa State University Extension and Outreach Leadership Team December 9, 2013
- 2. Digital Repository @ Iowa State University An introduction to Digital Repository @ Iowa State University • Provides access to university publications and research and scholarship of Iowa State’s faculty, staff and students • Materials are freely available over the Internet, making our work accessible to anyone, worldwide, with access to the Internet • Reaches a global audience, with visitors from 200 countries and territories • Optimized for search engines, including Google and Google Scholar • Arrangements place our work in university library catalogs worldwide
- 3. Digital Repository @ Iowa State University Supporting the extension misssion • Digital Repository @ Iowa State University complements and supports the strategic priorities of Extension and Outreach: • Engages the citizens of Iowa with access to education; • Research funded, in part, by the citizens of Iowa become freely available to the people • We will enhance opportunities for council members, faculty, and staff excellence • Increase the reputation of extension and outreach faculty and staff • Present, as a whole, faculty and staff members’ body of work • Detailed download reports provide faculty and staff insight into their readers
- 4. Digital Repository @ Iowa State University Extension and Outreach in the repository • Extension and Outreach publications; • Peer-reviewed articles by extension faculty and staff; • Animal Industry Reports; • Iowa State Research and Demonstration Farms Progress Reports; • Podcasts and audio recordings
- 5. Digital Repository @ Iowa State University Extension and Outreach publications
- 6. Digital Repository @ Iowa State University Extension and Outreach scholarship • We check the copyright status and publishers’ policies before uploading any article; • Received permission to upload publications from: • Journal of Extension; • North American Colleges and Teachers of Agriculture (NACTA); • eXtension.org
- 7. Digital Repository @ Iowa State University Bridging Extension and Outreach and academic units • Extension and outreach publications are presented alongside conference materials, peer-reviewed articles, technical reports and other publications produced by academic departments
- 8. Digital Repository @ Iowa State University SelectedWorks author profiles • Allows readers to discover an author’s entire publication portfolio in one location; • Provides academic and research contexts for extension and outreach work; • Social media buttons makes it easy for readers to share work with colleagues
- 9. Digital Repository @ Iowa State University Impact: Downloads 0 100000 200000 300000 400000 500000 600000 700000 800000 900000 4/1/09 5/1/09 6/1/09 7/1/09 8/1/09 9/1/09 Monthly Downloads Total Downloads Downloads to date: 913,963 Number of items: 11,370 ~80 downloads/item
- 10. Digital Repository @ Iowa State University Top Extension and Outreach publications 1. High Fructose Corn Syrup— How sweet it is (690 downloads) 2. Questions and Answers: About calcium and vitamin D (253 downloads) 3. Heart Disease and You—Facts about food choices (201 downloads) 4. Eat to Compete: What you should know about dietary supplements (115 downloads) 5. Survivor’s Guide to Healthy Web Surfing and Phone Apps (99 downloads)
- 11. Digital Repository @ Iowa State University Impact: Visitors from Iowa Since April 2012, the repository has received: • 17,776 visitors from Iowa (13.96% of total visitors); • 235 communities across the state; • Top 10 sources of visitors: 1. Ames 2. Des Moines 3. Iowa City 4. West Des Moines 5. Cedar Rapids 6. Ankeny 7. Johnston 8. Cedar Falls 9. Urbandale 10. Sioux city
- 12. Digital Repository @ Iowa State University Impact: Readership reports • Authors receive a monthly e- mail report with download statistics; • Author dashboard provides detailed readership reports in a graphic format, broken down for each publication
- 13. Digital Repository @ Iowa State University Online Publishing: Journals and Conferences • Publish electronic journals and conference proceedings; • Supports a full peer-review workflow; • Custom branding
- 14. Digital Repository @ Iowa State University Future possibilities • Partnering with Conference Planning and Management to provide proceedings publications • Digitizing historical extension and outreach publications from University Archives • New peer-reviewed journals
- 15. Digital Repository @ Iowa State University Want to participate? 1. Send me a copy of your vita or publications list; 2. We will work on checking the copyright status and seeking permissions from your publishers to upload your work; 3. We’ll get back to you with our results and work with you to get as much of your work up as possible. Harrison W. Inefuku Digital Repository Coordinator hinefuku@iastate.edu 294-3180
- 16. Digital Repository @ Iowa State University For more information • What’s In It For Me? The advantages of using Digital Repository @ Iowa State University (http://lib.dr.iastate.edu/digirep_outreach/4/) • Will They Let Me Do That? A brief introduction to copyright and institutional repositories (http://lib.dr.iastate.edu/digirep_outreach/3/) • Pre-print, Post-print or Offprint? A guide to publication versions, permissions and the digital repository (http://lib.dr.iastate.edu/digirep_outreach/2/) • Building Your Online Research Presence: A brief introduction to Digital Repository @ Iowa State University for graduate students (http://lib.dr.iastate.edu/digirep_outreach/8/)