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AlabamaMosaic: A Distributed Digital Collection of Cultural Heritage Materials
Coates, Midge; Coates, Mildred (2014-06-13)
Panel abstract: Virtual libraries are consolidated indexes of digital items harvested from different repositories. Started by a handful of institutions in 2001, AlabamaMosaic now contains almost 80,000 items from more than ...
AlabamaMosaic: A Short History
Coates, Midge; Coates, Mildred (2014-06-13)
Presentation on the history of AlabamaMosaic.
AlabamaMosaic: How Does It Fit into the Museum Community?
Coates, Midge; Coates, Mildred (2016-05-03)
AlabamaMosaic is a statewide project in which participating institutions create and manage their own collections of digital objects, and a central catalog makes these objects findable from the AlabamaMosaic Web site. ...
AlabamaMosaic: Using VuFind to Index a Distributed Digital Collection
Coates, Midge; Coates, Mildred (2014-06-13)
Panel Abstract: College of Charleston, Clemson and the Alabama Mosaic Project will discuss their respective decisions to replace CONTENTdm with open source software. These institutions present three different perspectives ...
Because You're You: Factors Influencing Item Selection in a Digital Sheet Music Collection
Coates, Midge; Coates, Mildred (2015-01-15)
The purpose of this study was to examine factors influencing user selection of individual works in a collection of digitized sheet music. Google Analytics page view data were grouped by source (directing link) and correlated ...
Because You’re You: Factors Influencing Selection in a Digital Sheet Music Collection
Coates, Midge; Coates, Mildred (2014-06-13)
For this study, we used Google Analytics to evaluate factors influencing user selection of specific works in a collection of digitized sheet music. These factors were: participation in a collaborative index (Sheet Music ...
Comparing Apples to Apples? Examining User Behavior for an Open-Access ETDs Collection vs. ProQuest
Coates, Midge; Coates, Mildred (2015-01-15)
Many institutions that maintain their own open-access repository for Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs) also deposit ETDs into the vendor database ProQuest Theses & Dissertations. Since ETDs are the products of ...
Discovering AlabamaMosaic
Coates, Midge; Coates, Mildred (2014-06-13)
Presentation on the collaborative digital collection AlabamaMosaic.
A Discovery of Trees: A Comparison and Evaluation of Five Web-Scale Discovery Tool Services
Coates, Midge; Caudle, Dana; Schmitz, Cecilia; Coates, Mildred (2014-06-13)
Web scale discovery tool services allow users to search all of a library’s physical items, licensed electronic content, and local digital collections via a single search box and receive relevance ranked results. Prior ...
Do Collaborative Multi-Institution Projects Drive End-User Traffic to Digital Collections?
Coates, Midge; Coates, Mildred (2016-11-09)
Many libraries participate in collaborative multi-institution digital collection projects because they promise to make it easier for end-users to find our materials. Creation and maintenance of these projects involves ...
Do Long Embargo Periods Facilitate External Publication of Electronic Theses and Dissertations?
Coates, Midge; Coates, Mildred (2015-11-17)
Embargo periods for Electronic Thesis and Dissertations (ETDs) collections require librarians to balance the needs of content creators (ETD authors) with those of content consumers (end-users). This poster examines the ...
Electronic Theses and Dissertations: Differences in Behavior for Local and Non-Local Users
Coates, Midge; Coates, Mildred (2015-01-15)
This study examines two research questions: (1) How do users in different locations find Auburn University Electronic Theses and Dissertations? (2) Do users in different locations interact differently with the collection ...
Electronic Theses and Dissertations: Limited Shelf Life or Long Tail?
Coates, Midge; Coates, Mildred (2018-09-04)
When we make theses and dissertations available electronically, we do so because we believe that these documents have value for researchers. We do not know, however, if this value has a time limit or if it will be sustained. ...
Embargo Periods and External Publication for History Dissertations
Coates, Midge; Coates, Mildred (2017-08-06)
A policy statement issued by the American Historical Association (AHA) in July 2013 recommended that institutions with mandatory deposit allow creators to embargo their ETDs for a period of up to six years. The reason given ...
Embargo Periods: How Do They Affect the Use of Electronic Theses and Dissertations?
Coates, Midge; Coates, Mildred (2015-01-15)
Embargo periods for Electronic Thesis and Dissertations (ETDs) collections are usually discussed from the point of view of publishers and/or submitters, not that of digital library end-users. This poster examines the impact ...
ETD Embargos: Are There Discipline-Based Differences in Candidates' Selections?
Coates, Midge; Coates, Mildred (2015-10-02)
It is frequently assumed that graduate students seeking to embargo their Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs) are either scientists/engineers planning to patent their discoveries or liberal arts majors planning to ...
Innovations for Access in Alabama: 1) Testing VuFind as an Index for AlabamaMosaic; 2) New Membership Structure for Alabama Digital Preservation Network
Coates, Midge; Coates, Mildred (2014-06-13)
In the last decade, the Network of Alabama Academic Libraries (NAAL) has launched two statewide initiatives dealing with digitized cultural heritage materials. The first, AlabamaMosaic, is a digital library of materials ...
Long Embargo Periods and External Publication for Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Coates, Midge; Coates, Mildred (2016-09-22)
Embargo periods for Electronic Thesis and Dissertation (ETD) collections require librarians to balance the needs of content consumers (end-users) with those of content creators (ETD authors)--consumers want access to ...
Profiling Digital Collection Users: Using Google Analytics to Learn More about Users of an ETDs Collection
Coates, Midge; Coates, Mildred (2014-06-13)
This poster presents preliminary Google Analytics usage data for a collection of electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs). Correlation of page views with page type, user location, and source (referring link) shows that, ...
Search Engine Queries Used to Locate Electronic Theses and Dissertations: Differences for Local and Non-Local Users
Coates, Midge; Coates, Mildred (2015-01-15)
This study examines two research questions: (1) What search engine queries lead users to the Auburn University Electronic Theses and Dissertations (AUETDs) collection? (2) Do these queries vary for users in different ...