Digital Repository @ Iowa State University
Increasing the visibility and reputation of Extension and OutreachHarrison W. InefukuDigital Repository Coordinator
Iowa State University Extension and Outreach Leadership TeamDecember 9, 2013
Digital Repository @ Iowa State University
An introduction to Digital Repository @ Iowa State University• Provides access to
university publications and research and scholarship of Iowa State’s faculty, staff and students
• Materials are freely available over the Internet, making our work accessible to anyone, worldwide, with access to the Internet
• Reaches a global audience, with visitors from 200 countries and territories
• Optimized for search engines, including Google and Google Scholar
• Arrangements place our work in university library catalogs worldwide
• http://lib.dr.iastate.edu
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Supporting the extension misssion
• Digital Repository @ Iowa State University complements and supports the strategic priorities of Extension and Outreach:• Engages the citizens of Iowa with access to
education;• Research funded, in part, by the citizens of Iowa
become freely available to the people• We will enhance opportunities for council members,
faculty, and staff excellence• Increase the reputation of extension and
outreach faculty and staff• Present, as a whole, faculty and staff members’
body of work• Detailed download reports provide faculty and
staff insight into their readers
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Extension and Outreach in the repository• Extension and Outreach
publications;• Peer-reviewed articles by
extension faculty and staff;• Animal Industry Reports;• Iowa State Research and
Demonstration Farms Progress Reports;
• Podcasts and audio recordings
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Extension and Outreach publications
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Extension and Outreach scholarship• We check the copyright
status and publishers’ policies before uploading any article;
• Received permission to upload publications from:• Journal of Extension;• North American Colleges
and Teachers of Agriculture (NACTA);
• eXtension.org
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Bridging Extension and Outreach and academic units• Extension and outreach
publications are presented alongside conference materials, peer-reviewed articles, technical reports and other publications produced by academic departments
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SelectedWorks author profiles• Allows readers to discover
an author’s entire publication portfolio in one location;
• Provides academic and research contexts for extension and outreach work;
• Social media buttons makes it easy for readers to share work with colleagues
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Top Extension and Outreach publications1. High Fructose Corn Syrup—
How sweet it is (690 downloads)
2. Questions and Answers: About calcium and vitamin D (253 downloads)
3. Heart Disease and You—Facts about food choices (201 downloads)
4. Eat to Compete: What you should know about dietary supplements (115 downloads)
5. Survivor’s Guide to Healthy Web Surfing and Phone Apps (99 downloads)
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Impact: Visitors from IowaSince April 2012, the repository has received:• 17,776 visitors from Iowa
(13.96% of total visitors);• 235 communities across the
state;• Top 10 sources of visitors:
1. Ames2. Des Moines3. Iowa City4. West Des Moines5. Cedar Rapids6. Ankeny7. Johnston8. Cedar Falls9. Urbandale10. Sioux city
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Impact: Readership reports• Authors receive a monthly
e-mail report with download statistics;
• Author dashboard provides detailed readership reports in a graphic format, broken down for each publication
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Online Publishing: Journals and Conferences• Publish electronic journals
and conference proceedings;
• Supports a full peer-review workflow;
• Custom branding
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Future possibilities• Partnering with Conference
Planning and Management to provide proceedings publications
• Digitizing historical extension and outreach publications from University Archives
• New peer-reviewed journals
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Want to participate?1. Send me a copy of your
vita or publications list;2. We will work on checking
the copyright status and seeking permissions from your publishers to upload your work;
3. We’ll get back to you with our results and work with you to get as much of your work up as possible.
Harrison W. InefukuDigital Repository
Digital Repository @ Iowa State University
For more information• What’s In It For Me? The advantages of using Digital
Repository @ Iowa State University (http://lib.dr.iastate.edu/digirep_outreach/4/)
• Will They Let Me Do That? A brief introduction to copyright and institutional repositories (http://lib.dr.iastate.edu/digirep_outreach/3/)
• Pre-print, Post-print or Offprint? A guide to publication versions, permissions and the digital repository (http://lib.dr.iastate.edu/digirep_outreach/2/)
• Building Your Online Research Presence: A brief introduction to Digital Repository @ Iowa State University for graduate students (http://lib.dr.iastate.edu/digirep_outreach/8/)