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<copyright>Copyright (c) 2009 University of Georgia School of Law All rights reserved.</copyright>
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<description>Recent documents in Institutional Repository Supporting Materials</description>
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<title>Amendment to Publication Agreement</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 10:35:18 PDT</pubDate>
<description>Faculty members are asked to append this addendum to any article publication agreement that does not explicitly allow posting the final published version into the Digital Commons and onto their personal webpages, such as Selected Works.</description>

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<title>Institutional Repositories:  Essential Infrastructure for Scholarship in the Digital Age</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 07:59:40 PDT</pubDate>
<description>Librarians from the University of Georgia Law Library and University of Maryland Law Library discuss their experiences implementing Digital Commons' institutional repository product. Issues discussed include:- Creating a business plan to persuade law school administrators to establish an institutional repository --effect of open access on citation rates, distinguishing Digital Commons from SSRN. - Obtaining content for the repository -- promoting the repository, building buy-in from contributors, establishing content policies, determining types of materials to be included in the repository, self-archiving versus mediated archiving- Copyright permissions -- appending supplemental language to publication agreements, SHERPA/roMEO, keeping track of copyright permissions, developing a decision flowchart for copyright permissions- Expanding the institutional repository -- liasing with other law school departments, sharing an institutional repository</description>

<author>Carol A. Watson</author>


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<title>Implementing BePress&apos; Digital Commons Institutional Repository Solution: Two Views from the Trenches</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 07:07:30 PDT</pubDate>
<description>Librarians from the University of Georgia Law Library and University of Maryland Law Library will discuss their experiences implementing Digital Commons' institutional repository product. Issues to be considered includes...- Creating a business plan to persuade law school administrators to establish an institutional repository -- how to justify the expenditure, distinguishing Digital Commons from SSRN, choosing Digital Commons rather than an open source solution- Obtaining content for the repository -- promoting the repository, building buy-in from contributors, establishing content policies, determining types of materials to be included in the repository, self-archiving versus mediated archiving- Copyright permissions -- appending supplemental language to publication agreements, SHERPA/roMEO, keeping track of copyright permissions, developing a decision flowchart for copyright permissions- Cooperative repository applications -- liasing with other law school departments, implementing a repository in a consortium environment</description>

<author>Carol A. Watson</author>


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<title>Permissions</title>
<link>http://digitalcommons.law.uga.edu/ir/3</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 11 Apr 2008 12:14:06 PDT</pubDate>
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<title>Using Open Access to Increase Personal Internet Presence</title>
<link>http://digitalcommons.law.uga.edu/ir/2</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2008 06:04:26 PDT</pubDate>
<description>Discusses ways to raise internet profile by taking advantage of open access scholarship opportunities</description>

<author>James M. Donovan</author>


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<title>White Paper: Behind a Law School&apos;s Decision to Implement an Institutional Repository</title>
<link>http://digitalcommons.law.uga.edu/ir/1</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2008 10:07:42 PDT</pubDate>
<description>An institutional repository [IR] is a means to  collect the intellectual digital output of an organization. This white paper discusses creating a business case for the IR, obtaining content for the repository, managing intellectual property issues and extending the IR beyond a single institution.</description>

<author>James M. Donovan</author>


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