Increasing IR Deposits by Tagteaming: The Open Access Button Librarian Notification System

Abstract

Lighting talk given at the Southern Mississippi Institutional Repository Conference. // Managing a repository can be a daunting task. Outreach can be difficult. Cold emailing faculty members often results in no answer or a no. But what if librarians could get leads on researchers at their institution who having been receiving article and data requests? That’s exactly what the Open Access Button’s Librarian Notification System aims to do. A cold call would instead be turned into, “Hi, Professor Smith, I heard that your article was requested by an Open Access Button user. I’d love to help you share that per your publishing agreement!” This can help a librarian turn a problem a professor is encountering into a solution, and potentially add additional scholarship to the repository — and help fulfill more Open Access Button requests to strengthen the public’s access to open access materials. The Open Access Button is piloting the Librarian Notification System in spring 2018 and this lightning will discuss the results, and future plans to improve the system.