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This work explores the use of Clemson University's institutional repository and library catalog in promoting and providing access to the patents granted to its inventors. More specifically, the authors outline the project from generating metadata for patents and crosswalking it into a form that can be batch-uploaded to a bepress Digital Commons repository. They then explore the process of harvesting the records from the repository and using MarcEdit to crosswalk it into the library catalog. The process could easily be adapted to other nontraditional forms of scholarship. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Utah State University is home to a Digital Commons repository and an instance of the Digital Measures activity-reporting tool. The prospect of linking these two systems, such that content is automatically harvested from Digital Measures for upload into the Digital Commons, is alluring. Our initial efforts were abandoned due to lack of faculty permissions and low-quality metadata. However, with the passage of an Institutional Open Access Policy, we resumed investigation. We found that the process of harvesting from Digital Measures and uploading to Digital Commons could be streamlined, if not fully automated. Our initial harvest revealed that human-mediation is desirable. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Much professional literature is devoted to developing content and faculty buy-in for institutional repositories. However, little is known about the end users of these repositories. The Utah State University (USU) institutional repository (IR) has reached a stage of maturity in which it is necessary to begin shifting efforts from encouraging faculty buy-in to understanding end users and their needs. This presentation focused on: (1) how USU's IR reached its mature stage, (2) the results of a brief survey of the end users of the repository, and (3) how these results have informed the further development of USU's IR. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Hjorland contends that in order to further the goal of linking researchers to relevant information 'domain analysis' should be used in concept classification. He thinks that concept classification should not strive to classify on the basis of the properties of objects, but rather on descriptions of objects that are loosely derived from human activity and social negotiation. Currently, most information scientists operate under a 'positivist' view of concept classification, which, Hjorland maintains, mistakenly strives for universal classification schema while muddling the comprehension of individual researchers. Though he tends to include Wittgenstein in the positivist camp for classification, Hjorland's domain analysis is strongly Wittgensteinian. This work seeks to support the philosophical underpinnings of domain analysis through Wittgenstein's theory of language. Additionally, we outline Rick Szostak's criticism of domain analysis. While he levies an important charge against Hjorland, his solution proves inadequate in light of Wittgenstein's theory of language. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article informs on the role of disciplinary repositories and the inherent contradiction of a form of open access that is dependent on the continued existence of traditional subscription models. It mentions about developing appropriate genres of scholarly communication for the digital environment. It also informs on adoption of the technical infrastructure of repositories and complementary education and training surrounding authors' rights, and intellectual property in online environments.

An introduction is presented in which the editors discuss various reports within the issue on topics including the challenges of new article-level metrics and author copyrights facing the traditional journal, the inclusion of Altmetrics as an additional and complementary component of scholarly impact metric components, and the issue of author copyrights within a changing open access settings.