Open Access
&
MARS

Topics

• Institutional Repositories and Open Access
• MARS : an Overview
• How to Submit Content to MARS

Institutional Repositories

What are they Good For?

IRs & Open Access

"An institutional repository is a recognition that the intellectual life and scholarship of our universities will increasingly be represented, documented, and shared in digital form, and that a primary responsibility of our universities is to exercise stewardship over these riches: both to make them available and to preserve them."

Clifford Lynch, 2003

IRs & Visibility

Institutional Repositories provide increased visibility for:

Scholars

Schools and Departments

Universities

IRs & Preservation

Institutional repositories provide:

• Stable URIs for digital content
• "Lots of copies keep stuff safe"
• File format advising
• File integrity checks
• File migration support

MARS

the Mason Archival Repository Service

MARS : A History

• Launched in 2005
• Currently houses 8247 items
  • 2063 ETDs
  • 5234 from Special Collections & Archives

MARS : Submissions

• Published articles and monographs
• Conference presentations and posters
• Supplemental materials, such as maps, media files, and data sets
• Podcasts
• White papers and grey literature
• Web content*

* in development

MARS : Licenses

Two layers of licenses:

1. Creative Commons license
   1. CC-0
   2. CC-BY
   3. CC-BY-NC
   4. CC-BY-SA
   5. CC-BY-ND
   6. CC-BY-NC-SA
   7. CC-BY-NC-ND
2. MARS Agreement

MARS : INDEXING & DISCOVERY

• Indexed locally by Primo
• Indexed globally by web crawlers, such as Google Scholar
• Faceted search within MARS

MARS : Future Plans

• Increased documentation
• Tweets and blog posts about recent submissions
• Integration with ORCID
• Enhanced usage statistics for authors
• Automatic deposit from select OA publishers
• Automated discovery of eligible content

How to Submit

Submit: Step 1

If you have never created an account in MARS, go to: library.gmu.edu/publishing/deposit.

Submit: Step 2

If you have an account in MARS, email jwiering@gmu.edu to be added to the "Papers and Publications" collection in the University Libraries community.

Submit: Step 3

Use the "Item Submission" form to:

• Add Dublin Core metadata
• Upload files
• Choose a Creative Commons license
• Sign MARS agreement

Submit: Step 4

After you "submit", the document goes into a review queue. 

Once approved, you will receive an email with the "handle" for your article. This is the persistent URI for your document.

Want to Learn More?

jwiering@gmu.edu

http://publishing.gmu.edu

Notes

Crow, Raym. “The Case for Institutional Repositories: A SPARC Position Paper.” ARL Bimonthly Report 223, 2002. http://works.bepress.com/ir_research/7.

Kennison, Rebecca, Sarah Shreeves, and Stevan Harnad. “Point & Counterpoint: The Purpose of Institutional Repositories: Green OA or Beyond?” Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication 1, no. 4 (September 27, 2013). doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.7710/2162-3309.1105.

Lynch, Clifford A. “Institutional Repositories: Essential Infrastructure for Scholarship in the Digital Age,” 2003. http://works.bepress.com/ir_research/27.

Rensbarger, Fran. “MARS Speeds Mason’s Move to Becoming a Major Research University,” March 3, 2005. http://mars.gmu.edu/handle/1920/39.

Suber, Peter. “Open Access: Six Myths to Put to Rest.” The Guardian, October 21, 2013, sec. Higher Education Network. http://www.theguardian.com/higher-education-network/blog/2013/oct/21/open-access-myths-peter-suber-harvard.

“Peter Suber, Open Access Overview (definition, Introduction).” Accessed September 16, 2015. http://legacy.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/overview.htm.