Presentation Type
Presentation
Date
2021-11-17
Description
This presentation will discuss the process of completing a comprehensive digital collection platform evaluation at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU). Guided by its mission to advance the effective, efficient and ethical use of information in support of education, research and healthcare, the OHSU Library serves institutional faculty, staff and students, as well as external health science professionals and researchers, and residents of the State of Oregon and surrounding areas. Our unique physical and virtual collections include over 8 TB of digital files, which document the institution’s history, research and scholarly output.; learning from primary source materials is facilitated by these holdings. In 2017, the Library elected to migrate to the Samvera digital collection platform seemingly without a full evaluation process leading to unforeseen difficulties in the following years. This presentation will describe key challenges, such as a lack of metrics, that have caused us to evaluate other platforms. Our approach for evaluating platforms will be described, as well as how our role as a health sciences library catering to groups that include marketing departments, historical researchers, and data scientists, shapes our platform needs.
Keywords
institutional repositories, health sciences, Medical Institutional Repositories in Libraries, MIRL, MIRL 2021, repositories, platform migration
Open Access
1
Rights and Permissions
Copyright © 2021 Pierce, Duckworth, and White
Repository Citation
Pierce, Pamela; Duckworth, Steve; and White, Marijane, "Undertaking a Digital Collection Platform Evaluation at a Health Sciences Library" (2021). Medical Institutional Repositories in Libraries (MIRL). 17.
https://hsrc.himmelfarb.gwu.edu/mirl/2021/program/17
Undertaking a Digital Collection Platform Evaluation at a Health Sciences Library
This presentation will discuss the process of completing a comprehensive digital collection platform evaluation at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU). Guided by its mission to advance the effective, efficient and ethical use of information in support of education, research and healthcare, the OHSU Library serves institutional faculty, staff and students, as well as external health science professionals and researchers, and residents of the State of Oregon and surrounding areas. Our unique physical and virtual collections include over 8 TB of digital files, which document the institution’s history, research and scholarly output.; learning from primary source materials is facilitated by these holdings. In 2017, the Library elected to migrate to the Samvera digital collection platform seemingly without a full evaluation process leading to unforeseen difficulties in the following years. This presentation will describe key challenges, such as a lack of metrics, that have caused us to evaluate other platforms. Our approach for evaluating platforms will be described, as well as how our role as a health sciences library catering to groups that include marketing departments, historical researchers, and data scientists, shapes our platform needs.