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Research Showcase @ CMU What is it? Research Showcase @ CMU is an open access repository of scholarly work produced by Carnegie Mellon University faculty, staff and students. • Supports university’s commitment to preserve and provide access to CMU research • Created in response to Faculty Senate resolutions, Central Repository Resolution (2008) and Open Access Resolution (2007) • Funded by the Office of the Provost • Managed by the University Libraries • Content is easily discoverable by search engines • Affliated with the Registry of Open Access Repositories and the Directory of Open Access Repositories
What does it do? Research Showcase @ CMU
Open access research is freely available to anyone with access to the Internet
• Collects and organizes research • Enhances discovery and broadens dissemination, which can increase impact • Provides immediate or delayed (embargoed) open access to CMU research. • If desired, access can be restricted to authenticated CMU users • Sends authors a monthly report of downloads of their work in the repository • Provides an Author Dashboard to track and graph downloads over time • Supports journal publication and conference management—from submission and peer review to publication and dissemination
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Can I customize it? Yes. Faculty and graduate students can create personal Selected Works pages highlighting work and research interests. Accessing Selected Works, users can • Search your work • Post information about your work using social media (e.g., Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook) • Subscribe to your site using RSS Of course, content in Selected Works is easily discoverable by search engines.
What is in the repository? • Over 13,000 documents representing 181 disciplines from dozens of departments, centers and institutes • Dietrich College’s Journal of Privacy and Confidentiality is administered, published and archived in Research Showcase • At first, all deposits were full-text
• In 2013 repository staff began including descriptive metadata linked to full text on publishers’ websites for works whose full-text was unavailable because of publisher or copyright policies • The metadata strategy makes it possible to provide a more complete record of the scholarly output of the university • Metadata for papers published before 2000 is added at the author’s request, and may include papers written prior to tenure at CMU
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Is the content used? The 13,000+ documents in Research Showcase have been downloaded about 3 million times by roughly 143,000 users worldwide. • So-called “grey literature” that is freely available nowhere else on the Internet— theses, dissertations and technical reports— have recorded some of the highest numbers of downloads per paper in the repository • See download activity in real time with the Real Time Readership map at repository. cmu.edu
Real Time Readership: Image captured at 9:39 am, October 9, 2014, recorded 63 downloads in 28 minutes.
Who uses Research Showcase? Top 10 Countries & Cities
Worldwide Usage: 2009-2014
• United States
• Pittsburgh
• China
• Beijing
• United Kingdom
• New York
• India
• London
• Germany
• Seoul
• Canada
• Singapore (city)
• Australia
• Washington
• South Korea
• Bangalore
• Japan
• Sydney
• The Netherlands
• Shanghai
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How does content get into RS? University Libraries’ staff harvest metadata and full-text that is available on department websites and in faculty CVs, but this is slow work. The university would prefer faculty and graduate students be proactive about placing their work into the repository. Library staff encourage and assist by providing options and guidance. • Mediated deposit—Send content for deposit to the Reseach Showcase Coordinator,
[email protected]
Content comes from all the colleges—dozens of schools, research centers, institutes and programs throughout the university, in the U.S. and abroad.
What about copyright?
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Direct Deposit—for all works except current CMU dissertations & theses
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Deposit Your Work—for CMU dissertations & theses
Undergraduate work (e.g., Dietrich Honors Theses) may be deposited by arrangement between the college or school and Libraries, mediated by the Reseach Showcase Coordinator,
[email protected].
How is the content preserved? The Libraries belong to the MetaArchive Cooperative, which insures that Research Showcase is backed up regularly using Lots Of Copies Keep Stuff Safe (LOCKSS) technology. The backups are replicated and distributed across seven geographically dispersed archives.
Works in Research Showcase are checked for compliance with publisher policy using SHERPA/ RoMEO. Authors are urged to consider the publisher’s policy on open access when choosing where to publish, and to publish under an open license such as Creative Commons whenever possible. See CMU Guidelines on Author Rights and Preservation.
What’s next? The University Libraries will expand the scope and versatility of Research Showcase @ CMU • Migrating the content to a new platform • Supporting more formats, e.g., video, audio, data ... • Registering datasets created and shared by CMU researchers • Automating the harvesting of metadata and full text
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