[BOAI] Penn Launches the Work and Family Commons Open Access Repository

[Peter Suber]

[Forwarding from the U of Pennsylvania.  --Peter Suber.]


   *Media contact:  *Jacquie Posey at jposey at upenn.edu or 215-898-6460 ****

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*Penn’s Work and Family Researchers Network Launches the Work and Family
Commons Open Access Repository *

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

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PHILADELPHIA -- The Work and Family Researchers Network at the University
of Pennsylvania has launched the Work and Family Commons, the first open
access work and family subject matter repository. The WFC was created to
gather and preserve the intellectual output of the work and family research
community and to offer free online access to the full text of research
articles to the public.




 “We are very excited about the launch of the Work and Family Commons,”
Jerry Jacobs, Penn sociology professor and Network executive officer, said.
“It is a novel undertaking. We have received strong support from Penn
Libraries Information Technology and Digital Development Director Michael
Winkler and his staff.  The plan is to use cutting edge technology to
create a virtual community for researchers. We are already starting out
with a database of over 12,000 entries.” ****




 Jacobs said that the WFC contains more than 11,000 citations from the
former Sloan Network Literature Database at Penn as well as the Sloan
Network Encyclopedia Entries.  He called WFC a
*community-driven*repository that represents a
*natural progression* of the former Sloan Network at Penn by using
contemporary technology to increase access and visibility of work and
family scholarship via major Internet search engines.****




 The success and vitality of WFC will depend on the willingness of work and
family scholars to share their knowledge by contributing their work.
*Materials
are *submitted* directly by authors *with a free Network account.  Scholars
are encouraged to add working papers, reports, conference presentations,
books and permissible versions of journal articles to the WFC.  Browsing
and searching the WFC is available *at no cost*.****




 One-hour virtual tutorials on how to use and deposit to the WFC will be
held in February and March and be available upon request by email to
workandfamily at sas.upenn.edu with “Tutorial” in the subject header.  Additional
tutorials will be held in the future. ****



The Work and Family Researchers Network is the premier peer community for
multidisciplinary work and familyscholars seeking to share their work and
to meet each other both on and offline.  The Network’s inaugural
conference, “Interdisciplinary Perspective on Work and Family,” will be
held in June with 700 presenters, including 150 international scholars from
more than 30 countries. Information about the conference is available at
https://workfamily.sas.upenn.edu/content/conference.
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