Title

Collaborate to Innovate: Expanding Access to Faculty Patents through the Institutional Repository and the Library Catalog

Authors

Andrew Wesolek, Clemson UniversityFollow
Jan Comfort, Clemson UniversityFollow
Lisa Bodenheimer, Clemson UniversityFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

11-2015

Publication Title

Journal of Collection Management

Volume

40

Issue

4

Publisher

Taylor and Francis

Abstract

Institutional repositories and library catalogs have long been used to promote and provide access to scholarly articles, monographs, and other “traditional” forms of scholarship. However, faculty at many institutions participate in “non-traditional” forms of research, such as patents. This work explores the use of Clemson University’s institutional repository and library catalog in promoting and providing access to the patents granted to its inventors. More specifically, the authors outline the project from generating metadata for patents, and cross-walking it into a form that can be batch uploaded to a bepress Digital Commons Repository. They then explore the process of harvesting the records from the repository and using MarcEdit to crosswalk it into the library catalog. The process could easily be adapted to other non-traditional forms of scholarship.

Comments

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http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01462679.2015.1093986

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Recommended Citation

Wesolek, Andrew; Comfort, Jan; and Bodenheimer, Lisa, "Collaborate to Innovate: Expanding Access to Faculty Patents through the Institutional Repository and the Library Catalog" (2015). Publications. 101.
https://tigerprints.clemson.edu/lib_pubs/101