By UNIVERSITY RELATIONS<\/b><\/p>\n
Fort Hays State University\u2019s Forsyth Library hosted the second annual Digital Commons Heartland User\u2019s Group Regional Conference.<\/p>\n
The conference was organized by Jennifer Sauer, coordinator of scholar services and electronic resources and discovery services librarian, and Elizabeth Downing, digital curation librarian.<\/p>\n
\u201cOver two days, the conference focused on sharing ideas, innovations and the best practices for institutional repositories,\u201d said Downing.<\/p>\n
Mark Eberle, Biological Sciences lab coordinator at Fort Hays State, was the keynote speaker and talked, from an author\u2019s perspective, about the library as a publisher.<\/p>\n
Other featured presenters at the conference were from Kansas State University, the University of Nebraska \u2013 Lincoln, the Missouri Science & Technology University, Rutgers University, the University of Denver, and Southwestern Oklahoma State University.<\/p>\n
This conference was specifically for users of the Digital Commons platform hosted by bepress. Representatives from the company gave updates and answered questions.<\/p>\n
\u201cDigital Commons is a really powerful network,\u201d said Sauer \u201cContent gets picked up and indexed across the Internet fast, so it will come up in a lot of search inquiries and drive even more traffic to the FHSU Scholars Repository.\u201d<\/p>\n
Since contracting Digital Commons in 2015, FHSU has seen over 103,000 downloads on faculty and student work that has been published.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe do a lot of great scholarship here at Fort Hays State,\u201d said Downing \u201cBecause these are now indexed in Google Scholar, they are really discoverable by everybody.\u201d<\/p>\n
The conference was made possible by contributions from the Forsyth Library dean\u2019s office, the Office of the Provost and bepress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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