<div dir="ltr"><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:black">*Apologies for cross-posting*</span></span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:black"><br></span></span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:black">Hi all,</span></span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:black"><br></span></span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:black">In case you missed the session at CNI, we’d like to share our findings: with nearly 400 repositories as a sample group, we looked at how the IR community typically measures progress and compared that with different ranking systems to see how they matched up. The results suggest that we need a new, platform-agnostic framework that allows institutions to measure themselves against their own unique missions and goals.</span></span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><u></u> <u></u></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">I’d like to invite you to a webinar that considers what this framework might look like:</span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><u></u> <u></u></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">How am I Doing? A Framework for Repository Benchmarking</span></b><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><u></u> <u></u></p><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">Date: </span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">Thursday, July 9th, 2015 </span><br><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">Time: </span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">8am Pacific/ 11am Eastern/ 4pm GMT</span><br><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">Register here: </span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><a href="http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=10326637&msgid=241274&act=J2IU&c=1371275&destination=https%3A%2F%2Fattendee.gotowebinar.com%2Fregister%2F2961207281998939906" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration:none;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/2961207281998939906</span></a></span><br> <u></u><u></u></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">Date: </span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">Thursday, July 9th, 2015</span><u></u><u></u></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">Time: </span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">5pm Pacific/ 8am Hong Kong/ 10am Australia</span><u></u><u></u></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">Register here:</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"> <a href="http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=10326637&msgid=241274&act=J2IU&c=1371275&destination=https%3A%2F%2Fattendee.gotowebinar.com%2Fregister%2F3051466191571215106" target="_blank">https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/3051466191571215106</a></span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><u></u> <u></u></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><br><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">In this webinar, I will propose a model that moves beyond one-size-fits-all ranking and instead focuses on benchmarking, as well as share some numbers from across the community.</span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><u></u> <u></u></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">I hope you can make it!</span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><u></u> <u></u></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Regards,</span><u></u><u></u></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Ann</span></p><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">Ann Connolly<div>Director of Outreach and Scholarly Communication</div><div>bepress</div><div><a href="mailto:aconnolly@bepress.com" target="_blank">aconnolly@bepress.com</a></div><div><br></div><div>(510) 665-1200 x174</div><div><a href="http://www.bepress.com" target="_blank">www.bepress.com</a></div><div><br></div><div>bepress: the frontier of scholarly publishing since 1999</div><div><br></div><div>Check out IR success stories on the DC Telegraph at <a href="http://blog.digitalcommons.bepress.com" target="_blank">blog.digitalcommons.bepress.com</a></div></div></div></div></div>
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