Transcript IR in a Day: - DigitalCommons@UConn

Pay to Play:
DigitalCommons@UConn
Jonathan Nabe
University of Connecticut
June 12, 2006
Biomedical and Life Sciences Division, SLA
OUR DECISION
LIMITED $ AND STAFFING
 HOSTED SOLUTION
 LIMITED OPTIONS

ProQuest’s DigitalCommons
One year pilot 2005-06
Full implementation, 2006
WHAT WE LIKED ABOUT
DIGITALCOMMONS
HOSTED
 LITTLE TECHNICAL DEMANDS
ON OUR END
 PARTNERSHIP WITH BEPRESS
 PROQUEST’S ASSETS AND
ECONOMIES OF SCALE

SETUP
Practically instantaneous
 Five minutes and no technological demands
since

FULLY CUSTOMIZABLE,
PART 1: FRONT END
 Branding
 Design
and layout
 Expandable
 Organization
FULLY CUSTOMIZABLE,
PART 2: BACK END
Submission process: Direct vs. Indirect
 Metadata fields
 Assign documents to multiple series
 Help pages within submission process

Some Features





Accepts all file types
Automatic conversion
to pdf
OAI-compliant
Thesauri picklists
Retain rights




XML Gateway for
federated searching
Peer review and ejournal publishing
Fulltext searching
Access control
THE GOOD…
IR IN A DAY! (And it works)
 Training – by phone, onsite, web
conferencing
 Web forum – to share experiences & advice
 Good support – less than 24 hours for most
requests
 Enhancements added seamlessly

DC ENHANCEMENTS
since the beginning of our pilot
Referral use data
 RSS Feeds
 LDAP Authentication
 Personal Researcher Pages
 “Claim Your Paper” feature
 Supports Handle System
 ISI indexing in Science Web Citation Index

THE BAD…
$$$ for startup
 Support materials lacking
 New features regularly but not on demand
 Proprietary programming language

AND THE UGLY
YOURS OR THEIRS?
IS YOUR TECH DEPARTMENT
UNDERWORKED?
 CAN IT MATCH WHAT PQ PROVIDES?

–
–
–
–
–
–
Daily backups
Weekly off-site backups
Failover server at second ISP?
Quarterly archive FTP’d
Dedicated personnel
Track record of reliability