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
Institutional repositories are at the core of "Green" Open Access.
Institutional repositories provide a way to challenge publisher monopolies and silos.
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:
- Creative Commons license
- CC-0
- CC-BY
- CC-BY-NC
- CC-BY-SA
- CC-BY-ND
- CC-BY-NC-SA
- CC-BY-NC-ND
- 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.
Open Access and MARS
By Jeri Wieringa
Open Access and MARS
Presentation for the George Mason University Librarian's Council on MARS, the Mason Archival Repository Service.
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