TopSCHOLAR® Presentations and Reports

TopSCHOLAR® Creating Opportunities [2011 brochure]

Connie Foster et al. — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 06:54:26 PST

Creating a Repository Keyhole: Implementation

Connie Foster — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 06:54:25 PST

The presenter will suggest essential elements to consider as an institutional repository system is selected and implemented and offer practical guidelines and strategies for success. Naming a repository, consistency in metadata, types of committees needed, policies and much more will be covered. An exchange of ideas and questions are encouraged.

TopSCHOLAR®, Creating Opportunities [brochure]

Connie Foster et al. — Tue, 03 May 2011 09:03:31 PDT

Journal of Outdoor Education, Recreation, and Leadership (JOREL)

Fri, 09 Apr 2010 10:51:51 PDT

TopSCHOLAR®: Creating Opportunities

Connie Foster et al. — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 09:24:59 PDT

TopSCHOLAR™ revised brochure

Cindy Troutman et al. — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 11:05:44 PST

A revised brochure that gives basic points, contacts, and guidelines for TopSCHOLAR™, the research and creative activity database of Western Kentucky University, launched May 1, 2007.

Engaging the Spirit 2007: TopSCHOLAR™: Creating Information Possibilities

Connie Foster — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 07:03:59 PDT

TopSCHOLAR™ is “The Database of Research and Creative Activity of Western Kentucky University.” It offers permanency, durability, and accessibility for discovering and storing content, such as articles, theses, conference papers, working papers, creative writing, and many other intellectual efforts of the University. TopSCHOLAR™ is indexed by Google Scholar and other metadata indexers. Each “deposit” has a permanent URL TopSCHOLAR™ supplements and complements existing information resources, and offers a publishing and archival opportunity where none existed before at one central web site.

TopSCHOLAR™ Brochure

Cindy Troutman et al. — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 11:15:42 PDT

A brochure that gives basic points, contacts, and guidelines for TopSCHOLAR™, the research and creative activity database of Western Kentucky University, launched May 1, 2007.

Institutional Repository Task Force Report

Connie Foster et al. — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 18:46:33 PDT

A report of the University Libraries Institutional Repository Task Force, Western Kentucky University, with considerations and recommendations to the dean of University Libraries for launching a digital research repository that captures the scholarly and creative output of the University's faculty, staff, and students, who have faculty sponsors.

TopSCHOLAR Digital Research Repository@WKU

Mike Binder — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 11:08:34 PDT

This PowerPoint presentation was given at the Western Kentucky University’s Council of Academic Deans Research Retreat to familiarize the group with the concept of Institutional Repositories and to begin the first steps towards establishing one at WKU, to be called TopSCHOLAR™. Definitions, benefits, values, guarantees for success, and examples of content are included.