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This presentation will be of interest to discipline specific repository managers and developers, those providing peer-reviewed publication services, librarians, and academics. This repository is unique in that the EHSL serves as publisher and provides opportunities for health professionals to publish non-traditional scholarly output that builds a neuro-ophthalmology curriculum. These publications can be cited on academic Curriculum Vitae, helping academic faculty with retention, promotion and tenure evaluation. NOVEL supports education and research for the discipline internationally, with users from more than 110 countries.

The Eccles Health Sciences Library (EHSL) and the North American Neuro‐ophthalmology Society (NANOS)built a discipline specific open repository, the Neuro‐ophthalmology Virtual Education Library (NOVEL), tosupport international education and research. NOVEL has become the primary educational platform forNANOS. Working together since 2003 has led to strong relationships between EHSL and NANOS. Allsubmissions are peer‐reviewed by the NANOS Editorial Board. Materials accepted into NOVEL can be citedby authors as an online educational publication. Authors retain rights to their content. After grant fundingwas exhausted, and years of financial support from NANOS, representatives of EHSL and NANOS negotiateda contract with a health sciences publisher to produce an illustrated curriculum and textbook to providefunding for the open repository. The Library's role is to manage the repository, solicit new content andoversee the peer‐review process. The Society's role is to create the content, provide discipline‐specificexpertise, serve as editorial reviewers and establish the curriculum framework. The Publisher's role is toprovide the platform and manage the licensing, subscriptions, revenue collection and marketing of theproducts. Royalties from product subscriptions will create sustainable income to support growth anddevelopment of the open library‐society digital repository, NOVEL. http://NOVEL.utah.edu

Objectives · Explore sustainability options for a professional society's digital repository · Curate and organize repository content into an added-value product for licensing · Refine the collaboration and coordination of expertise of librarians and society members Methods This project involves librarians working with a society to find a strategy to provide financial sustainability for an open access digital repository. In order to create a revenue generating product, librarians work with society members to select, peer-review and organize learning objects into the discipline's structured professional training objectives. Following a curriculum outline developed by the society, librarians identify areas for collection development and target contributions from society members. The completed outline will provide added-value to the open access collection leading users to the highest quality objects and guiding them through the content in a logical sequence to enhance learning. The final product will have the potential to be licensed to libraries, residency programs and health sciences institutions providing a sustained revenue stream to support the project for years to come. Results The Illustrated Neuro-Ophthalmology Curriculum and a subset, the Neuro-Ophthalmology Curriculum for the General Neurologist, have been created as hyperlinked curriculum outlines and are posted on the North American Neuro-Ophthalmology Society’s (NANOS) web site for members only. This added value product is one of the benefits of NANOS membership. In addition, the library has initiated discussion with a database vendor and the society is now negotiating a contract, with the intent of publishing the curricula as a licensed resource. Royalties from these products will help achieve the goal of financial sustainability. Conclusions Clearly, library and professional society collaborations can result in development of sustainable and valuable knowledge resources. Combining the content expertise of the society members with the organizational, knowledge management and coordination expertise of librarians can lead to highly successful project outcomes.

Objectives Create a significant training resource for clinical ophthalmologists, using locally produced content and representing the expertise of the eye center Support training of students, residents and fellows at the local institution and at ophthalmology training programs internationally Identify and make accessible the vast wealth of knowledge and information generated at the eye center Methods This academic health sciences library was approached by the institution's eye center to collaborate with them in developing a comprehensive online tool for training clinical ophthalmologists. Many valuable resources exist, but are unavailable because they have not been collected, organized or made accessible. An organizational structure was developed and refined in partnership with the eye center faculty. Flexibility is built in to accommodate variations in local and global training programs. Content sources were identified and systematic collection procedures were established to capture those outputs. The library established procedures and manages the process for submission, review and inclusion as materials are produced. This process provides opportunities for students, residents and fellows to build their publication portfolio by contributing to a peer-reviewed online educational repository. Results At the end of year one, the library has been instrumental in establishing the infrastructure for the resource, and for establishing the submission and peer review processes. The poster will provide usage and collection statistics that reflect the growth and wide spread adoption of the resources collected. Conclusions This project is an example of a successful library and department collaboration. Libraries are uniquely positioned to assist departments in at their institution to collect, organize and publish intellectual output into meaningful digital educational resources. These resources not only enhance the local teaching mission, but can have global impact as they also support the institution’s international outreach initiatives.