CSUN ScholarWorks: Creating A Comprehensive Open-Access Portrait Of CSUN's Intellectual Output

Abstract

Do you know where your scholarship is? {Or that data set, pre-print, manuscript draft, audio file, video, chart, photo, pamphlet, learning object, or sketch?} ScholarWorks Institutional Repository can help you manage, preserve and provide access to your scholarly output. Based on MIT�s open-source platform DSpace, it preserves CSUN-related scholarship in an Open Access environment. It is a stable, universally-adopted and scalable solution to the problem of keeping your digital information safe & sound. WHAT IT DOES: Creates wider online access for your scholarship; Provides long-term digital file backup & preservation; Establishes permanent online locations for your work; Applies robust, standardized metadata descriptions to your works, just like a book record in our catalog WHY IT MATTERS: An Open Access IR is an antidote to skyrocketing publishers� costs & impeded access to information Scholarship is more than journal articles: Grey literature, data sets, white papers & other unpublished items need a safe, fixed place Digital preservation is more than backup copies: files become obsolete, metadata (and semantics) must be preserved, forward-looking strategies must be developed to anticipate tech changes & disasters (floods, theft, bit-rot, file corruption & etc.) ScholarWorks balances web access with digital preservation within an Open Access publishing framework.