Strategic Plan Update, November 2013
Focus Area # 6: Engage with partners across the University to increase the amount, value, and
impact of OSU-produced digital content.
Key strategies: reorganize, rebalance skills, and revise work processes to increase engagement
with existing and potential partners and to increase capacity delivered by existing resources. In
addition, engagement between partners within the Libraries has increased by focusing on
building relationships among Digital Content Services, Digital Initiatives, AD&S, Special
Collections, and Digital Reformatting.
Overall progress: OSU content delivered by the Libraries is well used. The number of downloads,
world-wide, was nearly 2,000,000 for the first 10 months of 2013 alone. The quantity of OSULdelivered content continues to grow. We have shifted resources and streamlined processes to
handle the increased number of requests for partnering in the delivery of new content.
Initiative 6.1: Increase the amount of OSU-generated digital content managed by the Libraries
 Expanded Capacity by reorganizing and revising focuses
o Automated metadata ingest ( including reuse of
metadata found in other databases)
o New employee, Susie Petrak, will do marketing
which relieves the librarians (esp. Maureen) to
work on more technical and strategic aspects
o Switching to IT tracking system
o Indicators of progress:
Date
Jan. 1, 2004-Jan. 2011
September 30, 2013
Growth 2011- (no.)
Growth 2011- (%)
Items Added to the IR 2011-
1500
1000
500
Year-Month
2013-10
2013-08
2013-06
2013-04
2013-02
2012-12
2012-10
2012-08
2012-06
2012-04
2012-02
2011-12
2011-10
2011-08
2011-06
2011-04
0
2011-02
Number
2000
# Items in KB
43310
52552
9342
18
Strategic Plan Update, November 2013, pg. 2
Focus Area # 6: Engage with partners across the University to increase the amount, value, and
impact of OSU-produced digital content.
IR and Publishing Collaborations
Q3 2013
Q2 2013
Q1 2013
Q4 2012
Q3 2012
Q2 2012
Q1 2012
New issues
published
Journals published
New Collections
0
20
40
60
Collections with Items
Added (Active)
Number
Initiative 6.2: Expand University Libraries’ support for publishing journals edited by members of
the OSU community and for managing and providing access to papers and presentations
generated at conferences hosted by OSU.
 Increased support for publishing journals as indicated below.
Journal name (**since 2011)
OSUL
Nature of partnership
distribution
Frequency
alter/nativas (DSpace)**
Cornfield Review (OJS)
ASK
Disability Studies Quarterly (OJS)
Early Modern Japan (DSpace)
Empirical Musicology Review (DSpace)
Enarratio
International Journal of Rural Criminology
(DSpace)**
Journal of Amish and Plain Anabaptist Studies
(DSpace)**
JUROS: The Journal of Undergraduate
Research at Ohio State
Mujeres Talk
Ohio Archaeologist (DSpace)**
Ohio Journal of Science
2013
2009
[2013]
2008
2009
2006
[2013]
2011
Future: Workflow support
Workflow support
Agreement phase
Full partnership
Archiving and distribution
Full partnership
Development phase
Archiving and distribution
biannual
annual
continuous
quarterly
2013
Archiving and distribution
annual
2010
Workflow support
annual
[2013]
2013
2006
Agreement phase
Archiving and distribution
Archiving and distribution
Polata (DSpace)
2006
Archiving and distribution
continuous
quarterly
Quarterly 1900-2012;
continuous 2013irregular
quarterly
annual
annual
Other expanded support: Editors’ Group launched, ELF includes scholarly communication facet,
KB Users’ Group continues to be a good venue for engagement.
Strategic Plan Update, November 2013, pg. 3
Focus Area # 6: Engage with partners across the University to increase the amount, value, and
impact of OSU-produced digital content.
Initiative 6.3: Enhance the impact of our campus partners’ digital content by broadening access
to it.
 Digital Content Services is working with IT to set up a tool that will allow partners to pull their
own usage data from the KB. This communicates and enhances value for partners.
Institutional Repository Downloads and Views of Journals on Open Journal Systems (Jan.-Oct. 2013)*
IR
Campus Partners
OSUL collections
Retrospective journals
All IR content
No. of Downloads
1,206,795
177,707
24,694
1,409,196
Journal
Cornfield Review
Disability Studies Quarterly
Empirical Musicology Review
JUROS
Total Views
No. of Views (Google Analytics)
1,459
443,940
1,320
3,089
449,808
*Journals delivered through DSpace (e.g. Early Modern Japan) are reported in the IR downloads.