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dc.contributor.authorBoulton, Susan
dc.date.accessioned2020-04-02T05:22:47Z
dc.date.available2020-04-02T05:22:47Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.identifier.issn2048-7754
dc.identifier.doi10.1629/uksg.504
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/392933
dc.description.abstractThis article explores the community reach and societal impact of institutional repositories, in particular Griffith Research Online (GRO), Griffith University’s institutional repository. To promote research on GRO, and to encourage people to click through to the repository content, a pilot social media campaign and some subsequent smaller social media activities were undertaken in 2018. After briefly touching on these campaigns, this article provides some reflections from these activities and proposes options for the future direction of social engagement and GRO in particular, and for institutional repositories in general. This undertaking necessitates a shift in focus from repositories as a resource for the scholarly community to a resource for the community at large. The campaign also highlighted the need to look beyond performance metrics to social media metrics as a measure of the social and community impact of a repository. Whilst the article is written from one Australian university’s perspective, the drivers and challenges behind researchers and universities translating their research into economic, social, environmental and cultural impacts are national and international. The primary takeaway message is for libraries to take more of a proactive stance and to kick-start conversations within their institutions and with their clients to actively partner in creating opportunities to share research.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherUbiquity Press, Ltd.
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom1
dc.relation.ispartofpageto9
dc.relation.ispartofissue12
dc.relation.ispartofjournalInsights the UKSG journal
dc.relation.ispartofvolume33
dc.subject.fieldofresearchLibrary and information studies
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode4610
dc.subject.keywordsResearch impact
dc.subject.keywordsInstitutional repositories
dc.subject.keywordsSocial media
dc.subject.keywordsResearch measurement
dc.subject.keywordsAcademic libraries
dc.titleSocial engagement and institutional repositories: a case study
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dcterms.bibliographicCitationBoulton, S, Social engagement and institutional repositories: a case study, Insights the UKSG journal, 2020, 33: 12, 1-9; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1629/uksg.504
dcterms.licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.date.updated2020-04-02T04:55:22Z
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gro.rights.copyright© 2020 Susan Boulton. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence, which permits unrestricted use and distribution provided the original author and source are credited.
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