<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Dear Heather,</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Thanks so much for sharing the Digital Commons Network with the group, and we hope everyone has had a chance to view it. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">RE: working across platforms, we would welcome materials from other repositories if any academic institution wanted to participate. For those of you who are interested, here are a few things to keep in mind:</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"></p><ul><li><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt">The Digital Commons Network is dedicated to open access. For this reason, every record must have a full text that is completely free of restriction.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt">We believe in associating all records with the branding of the institution that made them available. We would ask for the approved logo of every participating institution.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">In each Commons of the Digital Commons Network, we feature several Most Popular lists. Example: </span><a href="http://network.bepress.com/social-and-behavioral-sciences/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:blue">http://network.bepress.com/social-and-behavioral-sciences/</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"> . The lists are determined by download count, and we would need those per record we include.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Every article page and PDF provides links back to the Digital Commons Network. Examples: </span><a href="http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/lib_fsdocs/15/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:blue">http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/lib_fsdocs/15/</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"> and</span><a href="http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1023&context=lib_fsdocs" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:blue">http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1023&context=lib_fsdocs</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">. We designed the network in this fashion in order to help bring like scholarship together. We would ask that any participating IR provide a reciprocal path to the scholarship of others.</span></li>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Thanks again, and I look forward to hearing from anyone who would like to participate.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Kenneth Gleason </span></p>
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<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote">From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Heather Morrison</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hgmorris@sfu.ca" target="_blank">hgmorris@sfu.ca</a>></span><br>Date: Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 3:07 PM<br>
Subject: [SCHOLCOMM] New Year's challenge for repository developers and managers: awesome cross-search<br>To: "Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci)" <<a href="mailto:goal@eprints.org" target="_blank">goal@eprints.org</a>>, "<a href="mailto:scholcomm@ala.org" target="_blank">scholcomm@ala.org</a> T.F." <<a href="mailto:SCHOLCOMM@ala.org" target="_blank">SCHOLCOMM@ala.org</a>>, SPARC Open Access Forum <<a href="mailto:SPARC-OAForum@arl.org" target="_blank">SPARC-OAForum@arl.org</a>><br>
<br><br>The Digital Commons Network has created an awesome repositories cross-search tool - with a signficant limitation, that this is limited to the Digital Commons platform.<br><br>My challenge for repository developers and managers: are you developing your platforms and repositories to facilitate development of search services like this that would work across platforms? If not, why not?<br>
<br>Here is the link to the Digital Commons tool (thanks to Isaac Gilman):<br><a href="http://network.bepress.com/" target="_blank">http://network.bepress.com/</a><br><br>best,<br><br>Heather G. Morrison<br><a href="http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com</a></div>
</div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div>-- <br>Kenneth Gleason<br>Product Manager, Digital Commons<br>bepress<br><br>510-665-1200 x148<br><a href="http://www.bepress.com/" target="_blank">http://www.bepress.com</a><br>
<br><div>bepress: sustainable scholarly publishing </div><div><br></div><br>