LYRASIS Research DSpace Repository
LYRASIS Research is a digital repository for research output at LYRASIS, including original staff research, Catalyst Fund reports, and grant related publications.
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CC-PLUS: Beyond the Danger Zone
(LYRASIS; Kentucky Virtual Library, 2024-04) Burdette, Ilona
CC-PLUS, Consortia Collaborating on a Platform for Library Usage Statistics, is open-source software designed to automate monthly harvesting of COUNTER 5 library usage statistics using NISO’s SUSHI protocol. The project had its origins in 2014 in the International Consortium of Library Consortia.
Original development, made possible by IMLS grant funds (2017-2021), was led by PALCI and partners. Further development took place in 2022-2023 when KYVL was awarded a LYRASIS Catalyst Fund grant. Active development resumed in February 2024 with funds committed by KYVL.
The goals of the KYVL Catalyst Fund project were to (1) deliver a working implementation of CC-PLUS software in a large consortial setting, and (2) develop an implementation toolkit and user documentation, paving the way for use by libraries and consortia worldwide. This report details the successes and challenges, progress and detours the project met with during the grant period, and ongoing work that would not have taken place in the absence of Catalyst Grant funds.
Expanding ReCiter Publication Manager: A LYRASIS Catalyst Fund-Supported Project
(LYRASIS; Weill Cornell Medicine; Texas A&M University, 2023-03) Albert, Paul J.; Jangari, Mahender; Dutta, Sarbajit; Gabeskiria, Judy; Mansour, Mohammad; Lamont, Phillip; Wheeler, Terrie
In 2022, Weill Cornell Medicine (WCM) and Texas A&M University were awarded a grant from LYRASIS’ Catalyst Fund to develop open-source tools that use faculty data to generate research intelligence and reports. WCM's project aimed to improve the capabilities of its publication management tool, ReCiter Publication Manager. As part of this initiative, WCM enhanced the application to allow users to generate publication lists based on nine distinct criteria, incorporating author and article filters as well as a variety of bibliometric reports. In March 2023, Publication Manager successfully completed a beta test involving a group of faculty and departmental users at WCM. Consequently, the institution will launch the application for production in April. Publication Manager was designed to benefit other institutions, and the open-source code for the application can be downloaded from: https://github.com/wcmc-its/ReCiter-Publication-Manager.
Y'ALL Means All: Piloting a Distributed Digitization, Program to Support Digital Diversity
(LYRASIS; Louisiana State University Libraries, 2024-08-31) Harrell, Jonathan G.; Naquin, Elisa
Louisiana State University Libraries applied for a 2022 LYRASIS Catalyst Fund grant to fund “Y'ALL Means All: Piloting a Distributed Digitization Program to Support Digital Diversity” to advance digital inclusion for small and under-funded cultural heritage institutions by creating a permanent regional digitization hub in central Louisiana. This was to build on the work accomplished by the Louisiana Heritage Digitization Award (formerly the You Are Louisiana’s Legacy, or Y’ALL, award), in which LSU Libraries works with smaller cultural heritage institutions to digitize their holdings and share them in the Louisiana Digital Library.
Black Lives Next Door: Geographies of Inequity
(LYRASIS; Center for Mason Legacies, 2024-04-10) Oberle III, George D.; Scott, Wendi Manuel
The goal with our LYRASIS Catalyst Grant-funded project was to produce an innovative course and a wide range of public digital projects that would explore and critically engage with Black life, history, and spatial narratives in Northern Virginia, with the intention of pioneering an innovative course. Using an interdisciplinary approach, we aimed to foster a deeper understanding of Black geographies and develop antiracist methodologies within academia while fostering a reconsideration of space in storytelling.
The American Congress Digital Archives Portal Project
(Lyrasis; West Virginia University Libraries, 2023-12) Emerling, Danielle; Gard, Sarah; McMillen, Jessica; Weaver, Marla
The American Congress Digital Archives Portal (ACDAP) project aims to provide open access to congressional archives by bringing together these civically important sources from multiple institutions using open-source software into a single online portal, illuminating the value of each collection and the relationships among them, and supporting scholarship and civics and history education.