From Digital Commons to Alma/Primo: enhancing the dissemination of Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) projects.

The Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) project collection is a group of approximately 120 DNP projects archived between 2017 and 2022 in Health Sciences Research Commons (HSRC), the health sciences institutional repository (IR) for the George Washington University. Our project focused on expanding avenues for the dissemination of DNP projects beyond our Digital Commons IR by integrating this content into the library's instances of Ex Libris Alma and Primo VE. By utilizing the Ex Libris Repository type import profile rather than the OAI-PMH feed, we identified enhanced opportunities for content discovery while likewise retaining better control over individual item records.

The Medical Institutional Repositories in Libraries (MIRL) Symposium: a blueprint designed in response to a community of practice need.

Background: Health sciences libraries in medical schools, academic health centers, health care networks, and hospitals have established institutional repositories (IRs) to showcase their research achievements, increase visibility, expand the reach of institutional scholarship, and disseminate unique content. Newer roles for IRs include publishing open access journals, tracking researcher productivity, and serving as repositories for data sharing. Many repository managers oversee their IR with limited assistance from others at their institution. Therefore, IR practitioners find it valuable to network and learn from colleagues at other institutions. Case Presentation: This case report describes the genesis and implementation of a new initiative specifically designed for a health sciences audience: the Medical Institutional Repositories in Libraries (MIRL) Symposium. Six medical librarians from hospitals and academic institutions in the U.S. organized the inaugural symposium held virtually in November 2021. The goal was to fill a perceived gap in conference programming for IR practitioners in health settings. Themes of the 2021 and subsequent 2022 symposium included IR management, increasing readership and engagement, and platform migration. Post-symposium surveys were completed by 73/238 attendees (31%) in 2021 and by 62/180 (34%) in 2022. Feedback was overwhelmingly positive. Discussion: Participant responses in post-symposium surveys rated MIRL highly. The MIRL planning group intends to continue the symposium and hopes MIRL will steadily evolve, build community among IR practitioners in the health sciences, and expand the conversation around best practices for digital archiving of institutional content. The implementation design of MIRL serves as a blueprint for collaboratively bringing together a professional community of practice.

A survey of medical researchers indicates poor awareness of research data management processes and a role for data librarians.

BACKGROUND: The European Parliament's directive on open data indicates the direction to follow for all public institutions in Europe. The portal Polish Platform of Medical Research (PPM) required more information about researcher attitudes and training requirements for strategic planning. OBJECTIVES: The aim was to assess (1) the status of knowledge about research data management among medical researchers in Poland, and (2) their attitudes towards data sharing. This knowledge may help to inform a training program and adapt PPM to the requirements of researchers. METHODS: The authors circulated an online survey and received responses from 603 researchers representing medical sciences and related disciplines. The survey was conducted in 2019 at seven Polish medical universities and at the Nofer Institute of Occupational Medicine. Analysis used descriptive statistics. RESULTS: Data sharing was not widespread (55.7% only shared with their research team, 9.8% had shared data on an open access basis). Many cited possible benefits of research data sharing but were concerned about drawbacks (e.g. fraud, plagiarism). DISCUSSION: Polish medical scientists, like many researchers, are not aware of the processes required for safe data preparation for sharing. Academic libraries should develop roles for data librarians to help train researchers. CONCLUSION: Fears about the dangers of data sharing need to be overcome before researchers are willing to share their own research data.

Global trends health science libraries: Part 1.

This is the first of three articles based on articles published in the Health Information and Libraries Journal's Regular Feature (International Perspectives and Initiatives). Key trends from 12 countries in Europe, North America, Africa and Asia were identified. In this issue, two trends are described: emergence of new roles and challenges for library staff; supporting researchers engaging in research data management and maintaining institutional repositories. Readers are challenged to compare these trends with their own experiences.J.M.

DigitalHub: A Repository Focused on the Future.

The DigitalHub scholarly repository was developed and launched at the Galter Health Sciences Library for the Feinberg School of Medicine and the greater Northwestern Medicine community. The repository was designed to allow scholars the ability to create, share, and preserve a range of citable digital outputs. This article traces the evolution of DigitalHub's development and engagement activities, highlighting project challenges, innovations, success stories, and the team-based approach that was employed to successfully achieve project goals.

Promoting and Tracking Institutional Scholarship with Implementation of a Librarian-Curated Digital Repository and Research Information Management System.

Library staff at the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell implemented a digital repository to collect and showcase the scholarly output of the medical school and the Northwell Health system. This repository, entitled Zucker School of Medicine Academic Works, promotes scholarship by faculty, trainees, and staff via a centralized public website. With links to the full text and faculty profiles, the repository facilitates access and discoverability in alignment with the value of scholarship at the institution. Subsequent implementation of a research information management system to harvest publications further enhances the goals of tracking, promoting, and reporting impact of the scholarly activities. This article reviews successes and challenges, and collaboration with other stakeholder departments.

New directions in health sciences libraries in China.

This article briefly describes the services provided by Chinese health science libraries and the factors which influence service provision. Driven by new technologies and national initiatives, the key services delivered by Chinese health libraries in the last 10 years have been research support services (such as research impact assessment, support for data management), evidence-based medicine, systematic reviews, the promotion of health information literacy, and the development of institutional repositories. J.M.

An Institutional Repository Experience at a Large Health Care System.

Institutional repositories (IRs) collect, preserve, and disseminate the scholarly output of an organization. Though common in academic settings, they are less so in hospitals or health care systems. The librarians for Aurora Health Care decided to create a primarily citation-level IR to organize and promote the scholarly output of Aurora faculty, residents, and fellows using the proprietary software Digital Commons, a product of the company bepress. The repository also hosts a newly published peer-reviewed journal and includes digitized historical images and institutional memorabilia. Suggested alternatives are given for hospitals or health care systems that may not currently be able to pursue a full-fledged IR.

Transcribing and digitizing eighteenth- and nineteenth-century letters for a historical digital repository.

In fall 2011, the Scott Memorial Library purchased 53 letters belonging to an 1841 graduate of Jefferson Medical College, John Plimpton Green. The library staff transcribed and digitized the letters, creating an online collection in the university's institutional repository, Jefferson Digital Commons. This article will detail the process of transcribing and digitizing the collection along with sharing statistics and the benefits of this project to global researchers.

Doctor of nursing practice scholarship dissemination through an open access repository.

Open access repositories have become more widely used for the dissemination of Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) scholarly projects nationally and internationally. This article shares lessons learned from five years of experience with using an institutional repository, archiving and showcasing over 100 full-text DNP projects in the collection. The aims of this article are to examine the advantages of disseminating DNP scholarly projects through an Open Access (OA) repository and to explore how items archived in OA repositories complement traditional publishing models as supplementary parts of the research ecosystem. Items from the collection have been downloaded over 72,000 times at over 3700 institutions in 182 countries around the globe. Archiving DNP projects in an OA collection can improve health care practices by augmenting the dissemination of practice outcomes in traditional peer-reviewed literature. This article provides guidance for those looking to establish and evaluate similar collections, highlighting lessons learned.

Establishing an Open Access Repository for Doctor of Nursing Practice Projects.

The Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) faculty at the George Washington University (GW) decided to create a digital DNP Project Repository for our students in 2016 based on the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) 2015 recommendations to do so. We describe the two-year process during which the DNP faculty and the GW librarians at our Health Sciences Library collaborated to create the DNP project repository. This article contains important information that was learned about digital institutional repositories, the criteria used in deciding to make the GW library's Health Sciences Research Commons the home for the repository, along with questions and concerns that arose during the process. Our library internally collaborated to customize the digital collection to meet the needs of DNP students and their project teams. Development included creating the URL for the collection, customizing digital metadata fields, developing submission forms and guidelines, and adding embargo options for projects. A pilot collection of six DNP projects was completed in 2017; and in 2018, the first cohort of 34 students submitted their projects to our repository. Outcomes are reported of the repository launch, lessons learned, and repository submission experiences of two DNP students. We believe our journey may guide others.

Competências para a gestão de um repositório institucional: o caso do repositório institucional da Universidade de Coimbra / Competencies for institutional repositories management: the case of the institutional repository of the University of Coimbra / Competencias para la gestión de repositorios institucionales: el caso del repositorio institucional de la Universidad de Coimbra

É num cenário de abertura crescente da ciência, mais amplo e complexo, que se impõem novas competências aos gestores de repositórios. Este estudo visa identificar os papéis e as competências necessárias à gestão e organização de um repositório institucional. Trata-se de um estudo qualitativo com observação participante, suportado pela revisão da literatura, que permitiu refletir sobre o papel dos gestores de repositórios e as competências que devem reunir no âmbito da ciência aberta, tendo como estudo de caso o Estudo Geral, o repositório institucional da Universidade de Coimbra. Embora as funções de um gestor de repositório tenham origem no campo da Ciência da Informação, o conjunto de competências a reunir é amplo e interdisciplinar, destacando-se aquelas ao nível da comunicação científica, das tecnologias digitais, da gestão e da comunicação, da técnica e da gestão de conteúdos.

A scenario of increasing openness of science, which is broader and more complex, requires new competencies of repository managers. This study aims to identify the roles and competencies necessary for the management and organization of an institutional repository. It is a qualitative study with participant observation, supported by the literature review, which allowed us to reflect on the role of repository managers and the skills they must gather in the context of open science, having as a case study the General Study, the repository of the University of Coimbra. Although the functions of a repository manager originate in the field of Information Science, the set of skills to be gathered is broad and interdisciplinary, highlighting the skills in terms of scientific communication, digital technologies, management and communication, technical and content management.

Es en un escenario de creciente apertura de la ciencia, más amplio y complejo, donde se imponen nuevas competencias de los gestores de repositorios. Este estudio tiene como objetivo identificar los roles y competencias necesarios para la gestión y organización de un repositorio institucional. Se trata de un estudio etnográfico, sustentado en la revisión de la literatura, que permitió reflexionar sobre el rol de los gestores de repositorios y las habilidades que deben reunir en el contexto de la ciencia abierta, teniendo como caso de estudio el Estudio General, el repositorio institucional de la Universidad de Coimbra. Si bien las funciones de un gestor de repositorios se originan en el ámbito de la Ciencia de Información, el conjunto de competencias a recopilar es amplio e interdisciplinario, destacando las competencias en materia de comunicación científica, tecnologías digitales, gestión y comunicación, técnica y de gestión de contenidos.

Los repositorios institucionales: situación actual a nivel internacional, latinoamericano y en Cuba / Institutional repositories: current status in the international, Latin American and Cuban environment

El presente artículo aborda los fundamentos teóricos sobre los repositorios institucionales que ofrecen servicios para organizar, gestionar, difundir, preservar y ofrecer acceso libre a la producción científica de una comunidad. La investigación tiene como objetivo describir la situación actual de los repositorios institucionales en el ámbito internacional, latinoamericano y cubano para mostrar su crecimiento. En el plano internacional se analizaron los repositorios indexados en el OpenDoar y ROAR. En este análisis se demostró un aumento en la última década de la implementación de los repositorios. En el caso de Latinoamérica se exponen las iniciativas que están indexadas en el Ranking Web of Repositories, mediante un análisis cuantitativo de los repositorios por países. En el contexto cubano se caracterizan los repositorios indexados en los directorios antes mencionados. Se enfatiza en la situación actual del Ministerio de Educación Superior con la implementación del proyecto Network Collaboration...

The paper approaches the theoretical foundations of institutional repositories rendering services related to the organization, management, dissemination, preservation and provision of open access to the scientific production of a community. The purpose of the study was to describe the current status of institutional repositories in the international, Latin American and Cuban environment and show their growth. In the international environment, an analysis was conducted of repositories indexed in OpenDOAR and ROAR. The analysis revealed an increase in the implementation of repositories in the last decade. In the Latin American context, a presentation is made of initiatives indexed in the Ranking Web of Repositories by means of a quantitative analysis of repositories per country. In the Cuban environment, a characterization is provided of repositories indexed in the above-mentioned directories. Emphasis is placed on the current status of the Ministry of Higher Education concerning implementation of the Network Collaboration project...