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Bridging the Gap Between Digital Measures and Digital Commons in Support of Open Access: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Human Mediation

 

Utah State University is home to a Digital Commons repository and an instance of the Digital Measures activity-reporting tool. The prospect of linking these two systems, such that content is automatically harvested from Digital Measures for upload into the Digital Commons, is alluring. Our initial efforts were abandoned due to lack of faculty permissions and low-quality metadata. However, with the passage of an Institutional Open Access Policy, we resumed investigation. We found that the process of harvesting from Digital Measures and uploading to Digital Commons could be streamlined, if not fully automated. Our initial harvest revealed that human-mediation is desirable.

Acknowledgments

This article describes work performed while the author served as scholarly communication librarian at Utah State University. He held this position until August 2013.

©Andrew Wesolek

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1. I should mention here that USU made the strategic decision not to take a robust stance on the license to distribute these manuscripts in our IR until the policy was well established and faculty support was significant. As such, we still check Sherpa permissions for each article.

 

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