California digital repository expert to present on campus today, April 20

As part of its exploring the creation of a Western Research Repository on campus, the Western Libraries is bringing digital repository expert Marisa Ramirez to campus for a noon presentation today, April 20.

Ramirez, the digital repository librarian at California Polytechnic State University, will present to the campus community on scholarly communication and institutional repositories.

The presentation will be held at noon Tuesday, April 20, in Wilson Library Room 164F (the Library Presentation Room).

More information about repositores, with examples and faculty narratives, is available at http://libguides.wwu.edu/Western_Research_Repository. Some benefits of a centralized digital location for faculty research and scholarship could be to:

• support T&P with increased visibility of faculty scholarship,
• create peer reviewed online publication of faculty and student work,
• propose an alternative to predatory journal costs, and
• make federally funded research available to the public.

The April 20 presentation is put on by the Western Libraries’ Digital Assets Task Force. For more information, contact the task force members (Jeanne Armstrong, Robert Lopresti, Peter Smith and Margaret Fast).