Ubiquity Press to pilot open source repository services

With the hubbub about bepress going to the dark side, it is time to reevaluate our options. While I think that Digital Commons remains our best option, due diligence requires me to prove that. Here is one option that is available.

Ubiquity Press is excited to announce that we are expanding our commitment to open access by providing hosted repositories. Starting in January 2018, we will be piloting two full-featured repository systems: Hyku and Invenio. Hyku is community-developed as a turnkey Samvera application and Invenio is developed by CERN. Our repositories will be open source, cloud-based, and fully integrated with our publishing and conference systems.

Since 2012, we have been a researcher-led publisher committed to cost-effective, high quality publishing of open access journals and monographs. We will carry over this ethos in providing a hosted, community oriented repository. We hope to enable institutions of all sizes to embrace open source repositories, increase the dissemination of their scholarship, and raise their institutional scholarly profile.  

This new repository service will begin as a pilot in order to ensure the repositories meet the needs of the library community. If you are a library interested in learning more or being a spring semester beta tester that will be critical in shaping the service, read more about our plans and get in touch. Let’s create a researcher focused repository for your institution together.

If you would like to share this announcement with a colleague, please feel free to forward this email or link to our announcement blog post.

Best,

Chealsye

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Chealsye Bowley

Community Manager

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ubiquitypress.com | @ubiquitypress
@chealsye | Doodle Meeting

Miscellaneous notes on book galleries

You actually have control over the “Download Full Text” label on the configurations page here:
https://digitalcommons.brockport.edu/cgi/user_config.cgi?context=faculty_music under “Change Download Full Text label on book page.”

On book galleries, the supplemental content will automatically go directly below the primary file, just like you’re hoping for. You get to decide what to call it, like this:
https://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/books/10/ to do that, you’ll just give the supplemental content a label and that will appear next to the download button.

Options for a music collection

• Marshall University: http://mds.marshall.edu/music_rec/

Download mp3 clip or archived zip file

• Vassar College: The primary file is a PDF of the score, and the supplemental file is a .mp3 of a performance. They used the first page of the PDF for the image, however you would be able to upload a separate image for this if you’d like.

Download mp3 file (supplemental) with program as main file download

http://digitalwindow.vassar.edu/musi_senior/36/

• Otterbein University: This music collection is featured among other faculty works, and includes the .mp3 for all the songs. http://digitalcommons.otterbein.edu/fac_bk/2/

Option to download or stream the mp3, full text download is the liner notes

• Bridgewater State University: This example has the .mp3 recording as the full-text, with the recital program PDF as the supplemental file. http://vc.bridgew.edu/fac_concerts/15/

Option to download or stream the mp3, full text download is the recital program