Technology & Instruction Librarian
Defining Jargon
- Digital object: Electronic files such as PDFs, jpegs, powerpoint, and videos
- Born-digital: Any documents that were created electronically.
- Digitization: The process of digitizing analogy material.
- Digital Preservation: The process by which digital objects are preserved.
RVU Elevate
The Frank Ritchel Ames Memorial Library's LibGuide about RVU Elevate was created to provide our community members with a single location to learn about the services that the Library offers as part of our ongoing commitment to the collection, management, dissemination, and preservation of Rocky Vista University's scholarly works, research, and materials that are of intellectual and creative importance.
What is an Institutional Repository?
An Institutional Repository is a digital library of electronic materials (or digital objects) that is representative of a University's collected institutional output. IRs are a natural fit for libraries because their purposes align closely with the Library's goal of collecting, curating, disseminating, and preserving information. Repositories have been around since the early 2000s and were created to increase the visibility of authors' scholarly work and allow universities to push back against traditional publication models, including the rising costs associated with subscription journals. Over the past twenty years, repositories have increased their scope by including policies, teaching and learning materials, student publications, hosting in-house journals, and other materials of intellectual and creative importance to the University.
Resources
Our Mission & Vision
Mission
Elevate supports teaching, learning, scholarship, and information literacy through the collection, management, dissemination, and preservation of scholarly works, research, and materials that are of intellectual and creative importance to the University.
Vision
Elevate advances health care and empowers the RVU community to serve with compassion, integrity, and excellence.
Open Access
Elevate is committed to Open Access (OA). The central tenet of the Open Access movement is that research should be free and easily accessible to everyone without barriers. Research is best when it is shared openly with everyone! Materials deposited into Elevate will be accessible to the public, without barriers, unless specified otherwise by the depositor.
Benefits of IR@RVU
Elevate is a service that supports RVU's scholarly community through collection, management, dissemination, and preservation.
Benefits to Rocky Vista University
- Increase the profile of RVU as a research institution through preservation and dissemination. RVU's scholarly output will become discoverable and accessible to a global audience. - Strategic Planning Goal #2, #4, #6
- Support Inclusive Excellence through open-access initiatives.
- Host in-house publications.
- Support accreditation by preserving historical artifacts.
- Fulfill legal requirements of federal and state organizations such as policies and accrediation documents.
Benefits to Faculty
- Deposit and preserve all of your scholarly work in one location.
- Increase the visibility of scholarly work.
- Increase access to scholarly work through open access.
- Highlight the scholarly work of your students.
- Support for teaching and learning scholarship.
- Support for rank and promotion.
- Access to comprehensive statistics and usage reports.
- DOI Minting
Benefits to Students
- Deposit and preserve all of your scholarly work in one location.
- Increase the visibility of and access to scholarly work.
- Access to comprehensive statistics and usage reports.
- DOI Minting
Benefits to Departments
- Create unique learning communities and collections to deposit and preserve documents.
Services
Elevate is a service that collects, disseminates, and preserves materials such as student, faculty, and university publications.
Services
- Scholarly Services
- Digitization: The Library assists in digitizing materials being added to the Institutional Repository.
- Staff-Mediated and Author-Self Deposit: The Library assists authors by depositing on their behalf (Staff-Mediated) or training authors on how to deposit materials themselves (Author-Self Deposit).
- DOI Minting: Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) are unique strings of numbers and letters that permanently identify a scholarly work. DOIs are used to make retrieval easier. - coming in the future.
- Author Profiles: Researchers can request custom author profiles.
- Department Services
- Digitization: The Library assists in digitizing materials being added to the Institutional Repository.
- Staff-Mediated and Author-Self Deposit: The Library assists authors by depositing on their behalf (Staff-Mediated) or training authors on how to deposit materials themselves (Author-Self Deposit).
- Communities of Practice: The Library assists departments in building unique Communities of Practice and collections to spotlight and preserve their academic output.
Scope & Contributors
Scope
Elevate accepts born-digital materials and analog originals (i.e. print) created by the University or people affiliated with the University.
Contributors
Elevate accepts submission from:
- Faculty
- Students
- Departments
- Preceptors
- Residents
- Alumni
Community Stakeholders
The Frank Ritchel Ames Memorial Library encourages members of our community to contact our team to learn how we can create new partnerships through collaboration. Email jrichard@rvu.edu to learn about the process of creating a collection in the Institutional Repository.
Current stakeholders
- Writing Center
- Humanities Department
- Office of Research & Scholarly Activity
- Office of the Dean
- Office of the Provost
- Office of the President
