SUNY Digital Repository: An Overview

Topics

• Repository History/Background• Content Types• Collections• Discovering Content• Needs/Gaps• Demos• Additional Resources

SUNY Digital Repository

• 2005 –• Using DSpace (open source) software

• ------------------------------------• Daily Report for 2013-02-28• ------------------------------------• Total items: 33447• Total collections: 252• Total communities: 23• Total sub-communities: 70• ------------------------------------

SDR World Ranking (#186 of 1654 repositories)

Content Types

• Archival Materials• Visual Resources• ETDs• Ebooks• Technical/Scholarly Works• Journals

Collections (sample)

• Stony Brook Dissertations• Masters Work – Ceramics• Brockport Writers’ Forum• Fletcher Steele Manuscript Collection (ESF)• History of SUNY Community Colleges

Collections (cont.)

• SUNY Press Ebooks• Binghamton Visual Resources

Discovering Content

• “the library is bigger than anything we think it is”

• Full-text Searchable (Dspace, search engines)• MAchine Readable Cataloging

MARC

• 24510|a Buried Caesars, and other secrets of Italian American writing / |h [electronic resource] |c Robert Viscusi.

• 260|a Albany : |b State University of New York Press, |c c2006.

• 85641|uhttp://ezproxy.tc3.edu:2048/login?url=http://hdl.handle.net/1951/29227 |z Click here to read this e-book.

Discovering Content (cont.)

• Via LibGuides http://libguides.ecc.edu/content.php?pid=145422&sid=1236563

• Via Database Pages http://www.oldwestbury.edu/library/db_results.cfm?letter=s

• Via Library Web http://www.tc3.edu/library/a_archives.asp

Discovering Content (cont.)

• Via Google (“Six Nations of the Grand River. A pdf listed in google but brought me to this site. What led to the fall of the Confederacy?”)

• (“I found your site through searching for a paper and am wondering how I could get acces to the full text? I am interested in The untenable subjectivity of PTSD: A Foucauldian analysis. Thank you very much, with kind regards, Julia”)

Discovering Content (cont.)Dear Mr. Schumacher

Im a student at The Institute of Information Studies and Librarianship at the Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic. For my digital libraries class, I chose your DSpace Digital Repository as my class final paper topic. I was delighted to find a lot of helpful information on your website which I have been studying thoroughly. Still, I have some remaining questions. I realize you must be busy, nevertheless would you please be willing to kindly answer my remaining questions, or provide me with any suggestion where to find more information?What is the way of the input into the system SUNY Digital Repository, its process and operations of input data processing (processing, demands on data formats, typology of the processed documents)?What are the demands on registrations for the users?Do you have any informations about SUNY DSpace own repository (data storage) or possibilities of archival data storage longevity?I may have overlooked a guide/informations about output and other services of the repository, the way of searching and the list of services for users and robots.I will be very grateful for any help. Thank you for your time, Ill be looking forward to hearing from you soon.

Iva Hostickova

Discovering Content (cont.)

• Google Scholar• “Site” Search / Advanced Search- Google• http://www.opendoar.org/search.php• A SUNYConnect Discovery System

Usage

• Statistics for SUNY Digital Repository on dspace.sunyconnect.suny.edu

(Oct 6, 2012 to Mar 1, 2013)

• Bitstream Views 603,140 • Item Views 749,401

Needs/Gaps

• Proper Staffing (we’re below minimum in single institution context, much less for 64 institutions)

• Open Source Requirements (“free as in a free cat”)

• Add-on Software (image handling, streaming, ereader, etc.)

• Administrative Buy-in/Champion

2/22/13 Major OA Announcement

• Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) Director John Holdren directed Federal agencies with more than $100 million in research and development spending to develop plans to make the published results of federally funded research freely available to the public within one year of publication

Additional Resources

• http://dspace.sunyconnect.suny.edu/• http://www.dspace.org/• http://demo.dspace.org/• http://www.dspace.org/whos-using-dspace

(1400 sites)• http://libraries.mit.edu/dspace-mit/build/policies/format.htm

l

Additional Resources (cont.)

• http://repositories.webometrics.info/en• http://www.opendoar.org/index.html • http://roar.eprints.org/• http://legacy.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/overview.htm• http://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Free_and_open-source_rep

ository_software

• https://repinf.pbworks.com/w/page/13779431/Repository%20software