Mediated Deposit for IRs

Presenter Information

Leila Sterman, Montana State UniversityFollow

Presentation Type

Lightning Talk

Location

Teams.

Event Website

https://www.lib.montana.edu/services/publication/scholarworks/

Start Date

8-4-2025 2:20 PM

End Date

8-4-2025 2:40 PM

Description

Institutional Repositories hold valuable research, data, learning objects, and theses and dissertations. However, convincing authors to add their works, especially published works, has been an ongoing challenge for librarians and repository managers. There are several proprietary and expensive options for ingesting content into repositories, yet most libraries are unable to support those tools ethically or financially. Montana State University has been using an open source tool created to help authors easily and legally share their work. Shareyourpaper.org allows our authors to share the correct version of their research without needing deep knowledge of copyright or spending time digging around looking for publishers’ policies. This tool has increased the volume and efficiency of deposit into MSU’s repository, increasing the impact of our research while saving librarians’ time. Four years into using this tool, our library has developed systems and workflows that ingest open metadata, make research visible to our campus colleagues, collect citation data, and increase or repository deposit rates.

Author Bios

Leila Sterman has been a scholarly communication librarian since 2013 interested in how we trust systems in academia and how Open can improve those systems. With an MLIS from Pratt Institute, Sterman was introduced to the Open movement and has been an advocate for change in the academic publishing ecosystem change since then. She teaches oral communication skills to STEM doctoral students through a mix of podcasting and improv, while researching scholarly publishing, copyright, and open access.

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