Increasing the Visibility and Reputation of Extension and Outreach

Digital Repository @ Iowa State University

Increasing the visibility and reputation of Extension and OutreachHarrison W. InefukuDigital Repository Coordinator

Iowa State University Extension and Outreach Leadership TeamDecember 9, 2013


An introduction to Digital Repository @ Iowa State University• Provides access to

university publications and research and scholarship of Iowa State’s faculty, staff and students

• Materials are freely available over the Internet, making our work accessible to anyone, worldwide, with access to the Internet

• Reaches a global audience, with visitors from 200 countries and territories

• Optimized for search engines, including Google and Google Scholar

• Arrangements place our work in university library catalogs worldwide

• http://lib.dr.iastate.edu

http://lib.dr.iastate.edu/


Supporting the extension misssion

• Digital Repository @ Iowa State University complements and supports the strategic priorities of Extension and Outreach:• Engages the citizens of Iowa with access to

education;• Research funded, in part, by the citizens of Iowa

become freely available to the people• We will enhance opportunities for council members,

faculty, and staff excellence• Increase the reputation of extension and

outreach faculty and staff• Present, as a whole, faculty and staff members’

body of work• Detailed download reports provide faculty and

staff insight into their readers


Extension and Outreach in the repository• Extension and Outreach

publications;• Peer-reviewed articles by

extension faculty and staff;• Animal Industry Reports;• Iowa State Research and

Demonstration Farms Progress Reports;

• Podcasts and audio recordings


Extension and Outreach publications


Extension and Outreach scholarship• We check the copyright

status and publishers’ policies before uploading any article;

• Received permission to upload publications from:• Journal of Extension;• North American Colleges

and Teachers of Agriculture (NACTA);

• eXtension.org


Bridging Extension and Outreach and academic units• Extension and outreach

publications are presented alongside conference materials, peer-reviewed articles, technical reports and other publications produced by academic departments


SelectedWorks author profiles• Allows readers to discover

an author’s entire publication portfolio in one location;

• Provides academic and research contexts for extension and outreach work;

• Social media buttons makes it easy for readers to share work with colleagues


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Downloads to date: 913,963Number of items: 11,370~80 downloads/item


Top Extension and Outreach publications1. High Fructose Corn Syrup—

How sweet it is (690 downloads)

2. Questions and Answers: About calcium and vitamin D (253 downloads)

3. Heart Disease and You—Facts about food choices (201 downloads)

4. Eat to Compete: What you should know about dietary supplements (115 downloads)

5. Survivor’s Guide to Healthy Web Surfing and Phone Apps (99 downloads)


Impact: Visitors from IowaSince April 2012, the repository has received:• 17,776 visitors from Iowa

(13.96% of total visitors);• 235 communities across the

state;• Top 10 sources of visitors:

1. Ames2. Des Moines3. Iowa City4. West Des Moines5. Cedar Rapids6. Ankeny7. Johnston8. Cedar Falls9. Urbandale10. Sioux city


Impact: Readership reports• Authors receive a monthly

e-mail report with download statistics;

• Author dashboard provides detailed readership reports in a graphic format, broken down for each publication


Online Publishing: Journals and Conferences• Publish electronic journals

and conference proceedings;

• Supports a full peer-review workflow;

• Custom branding


Future possibilities• Partnering with Conference

Planning and Management to provide proceedings publications

• Digitizing historical extension and outreach publications from University Archives

• New peer-reviewed journals


Want to participate?1. Send me a copy of your

vita or publications list;2. We will work on checking

the copyright status and seeking permissions from your publishers to upload your work;

3. We’ll get back to you with our results and work with you to get as much of your work up as possible.

Harrison W. InefukuDigital Repository

[email protected]

mailto:[email protected]


For more information• What’s In It For Me? The advantages of using Digital

Repository @ Iowa State University (http://lib.dr.iastate.edu/digirep_outreach/4/)

• Will They Let Me Do That? A brief introduction to copyright and institutional repositories (http://lib.dr.iastate.edu/digirep_outreach/3/)

• Pre-print, Post-print or Offprint? A guide to publication versions, permissions and the digital repository (http://lib.dr.iastate.edu/digirep_outreach/2/)

• Building Your Online Research Presence: A brief introduction to Digital Repository @ Iowa State University for graduate students (http://lib.dr.iastate.edu/digirep_outreach/8/)

http://lib.dr.iastate.edu/digirep_outreach/4/








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