Beyond the Repository: A Mixed Method Approach to Providing Access to Collections Online |
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| Authors: | Brian Wade Garrison |
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| Institution: | University of Kansas, KU Libraries , Lawrence , Kansas , USA |
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| Abstract: | After providing access to over 100 video interviews conducted by a professor with notable entertainers and personalities from film through an institutional repository, an experiment was conducted to discover whether a larger audience could be gained by adding a subset of 32 of these videos to YouTube. The results, over 400,000 views, indicate that libraries should cultivate a mixed method approach to providing access to digital content. |
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| Keywords: | institutional repository open access publishing academic staff digitization university libraries |
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