{"39612":{"#nid":"39612","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Library offers archive opportunity, resources for faculty","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWith more than 25,000 items in inventory, the SMARTech (Scholarly Materials and Research at Georgia Tech) digital institutional repository is the seventh largest institutional repository in the United States and 37th in the world.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe repository celebrates its fifth anniversary this year. The Library and Information Center is conducting a campaign on two fronts, according to Julie Speer, head of Scholarly Communication and Digital Services. Her department is working to collect and archive scholarly materials and research produced by Tech faculty and to digitize hard copies for archiving, as well as to inform faculty members that the library\u0027s archival services are available. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022SMARTech increases the visibility of faculty members\u0027 research,\u0022 Speer said. \u0022It\u0027s open to the world.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESpeer\u0027s department is in the process of directing the digital archiving of past students\u0027 dissertations and master\u0027s theses. Begun in 2006, the project should be complete by the end of the fall semester, Speer says. \u0022Students have been submitting [them] electronically since 2003.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe library seeks to collect more of the Institute\u0027s intellectual output-data, video, conference proceedings-\u0022anything faculty members wish to archive,\u0022 she said. \u0022Our concern is that much of these items are sitting on personal computers.\u0022 And, Speer says, the Library offers more services than just archiving. Prior to publication on SMARTech, the Library provides its own copyright research.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We\u0027ll archive CVs [curriculum vitae] and we\u0027ll research copyrights to ensure publishers will allow articles to be published,\u0022 said Tyler Walters, associate director for Technology and Resource Services.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAny objects able to be archived-from annual reports and conference papers to research reports and white papers-are accepted by the repository. \u0022It can be a resource for all papers and research of a faculty member,\u0022 Speer said. \u0022Because of its ease of use, the repository can better enable them to work with other faculty in the same discipline or in a collaborative capacity.\u0022 SMARTech contains fixed URLs, providing a permanent link to sources.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAccording to Speer and Walters, the Library provides support to researchers and their disciplines who adhere to open access policies. Walters says that advocating open-access practices can be a challenge in a research university. \u0022Some disciplines are more open to sharing, while some prefer to be more restrictive.\u0022 Speer says the repository has content from all the colleges. \u0022We would love to have more faculty participation at the individual level. We want to help faculty with creating and storing information.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EFor fiscal years 2008 and 2009, the repository logged 46 million views and downloads. The repository is indexed by Google and Google Scholar. Faculty are encouraged to submit their materials through SMARTech. Speer says there is no backlog, as her team works to upload items as quickly as possible.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESMARTech is just one of the services offered, as detailed on the EPAGE@Tech (Electronic Publishing at Georgia Tech) Web site. Library staff also will produce video and audio recordings of lectures and symposia, provide electronic journal support and help understand the National Institutes of Health Public Access Policy. Walters says the Library does not record classes, but will handle scholarly lectures and symposia, with more than 200 lectures recorded. Each of these in turn is loaded into SMARTech.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022For researchers holding conferences or editing journals, we offer software and Web site services,\u0022 Speer said. \u0022We can help faculty transition from a print journal to an electronic journal. We have supported more than five or six conferences a year, and we help produce three journals on campus. We support the undergraduate journal The Tower, and help support and produce faculty members\u0027 open access journals.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ETech belongs to the MetaArchiveCooperative, which is funded by grants from the Library of Congress and National Archives. \u0022We network with roughly 14 different universities, each with a \u0027network node,\u0027\u0022 said Walters, a co-principal investigator on the grants.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Everything preserved from each university\u0027s repository is stored on each node. When one is updated, all are updated.\u0022 The Cooperative started in the Southeast, Walters said. It includes Tech, Emory University, Rice University, Boston College and PUC of Rio de Janeiro. \u0022The servers are growing every week,\u0022 he said.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EOther resources include aiding authors in retaining their copyrights. These services are presented in more detail on the EPAGE@Tech Web site.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Through SMARTech and other electronic publishing opportunities, the Library and Information Center offers multiple services to the faculty and research community.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"SMARTech, digital publishing services offered at Georgia Tech Li"}],"uid":"27191","created_gmt":"2009-09-25 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:01:25","author":"Robert Nesmith","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2009-09-25T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2009-09-25T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"39613":{"id":"39613","type":"image","title":"SMARTech Repository","body":null,"created":"1449174110","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:21:50","changed":"1475894263","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:37:43","alt":"SMARTech Repository","file":{"fid":"189710","name":"tsi90039.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tsi90039_4.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tsi90039_4.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":3558,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/tsi90039_4.jpg?itok=NQPEGGHu"}}},"media_ids":["39613"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/epage.gatech.edu\/","title":"Electronic Publishing at Georgia Tech"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.library.gatech.edu\/","title":"Georgia Tech Library and Information Center"}],"groups":[{"id":"1183","name":"Home"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"3476","name":"Electronic Publishing at Georgia Tech"},{"id":"170779","name":"smart tech"},{"id":"167290","name":"SMARTech"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003EJulie Speer\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELibrary and Information Center\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:julie.speer@library.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EContact Julie Speer\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-385-0089\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["julie.speer@library.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}