{"id":412,"date":"2014-02-28T20:35:45","date_gmt":"2014-02-28T20:35:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aulibrarynews.wordpress.com\/?p=412"},"modified":"2014-02-28T20:35:45","modified_gmt":"2014-02-28T20:35:45","slug":"aura-alfred-university-research-and-archive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/aulibrarynews\/2014\/02\/28\/aura-alfred-university-research-and-archive\/","title":{"rendered":"AURA &#8212; Alfred University Research and Archive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/aulibrarynews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2014\/02\/aura-logo1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-424\" alt=\"AURA LOGO\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/aulibrarynews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2014\/02\/aura-logo1.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"115\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"color:#000000\">What is AURA?\u00a0 No, not aura, a distinctive atmosphere, or an energy field from a living being, but AURA.\u00a0 AURA stands for the Alfred University Research and Archive.\u00a0 It&#8217;s Alfred University&#8217;s own <em>digital repository<\/em>, a place to discover the past and inform the future.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color:#000000\">\u00a0\u00a0What is a digital repository?<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color:#000000\">A means of storing and providing access to digital content (research, scholarship and documents of historical significance)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#000000\">Provides a stable, well-managed, permanent archive for digital scholarly and research materials of enduring value produced by faculty, staff, and students<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#000000\">Supports research, learning and administrative processes<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#000000\">Includes a wide range of content: research data, meeting minutes, newsletters, theses and dissertations, published articles, technical reports, conference papers, historical information, etc.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">For example, this newletter of the Science Fiction Club, Lanruojifics, Fall 2002<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color:#000000\"><a href=\"http:\/\/aura.alfred.edu\/bitstream\/handle\/10829\/3170\/Lanruojifics%2cFall%202002.pdf?sequence=1\"><span style=\"color:#000000\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/aura.alfred.edu\/bitstream\/handle\/10829\/3170\/Lanruojifics%2cFall%202002.pdf.jpg?sequence=3\" width=\"226\" height=\"308\" \/><\/span><\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color:#000000\"><span style=\"text-decoration:underline\">What are the benefits of a digital repository<\/span>?<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color:#000000\">Content can be searched full-text, across all documents<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#000000\">Allows the content to be shared locally and globally<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#000000\">Allows wide and rapid dissemination of intellectual output, thereby raising awareness of Alfred University to a wider audience<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#000000\">Stores and organizes the plethora of digital documents created on campus in one place, accessible from anywhere<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#000000\">Supports a wide range of file types (text, images, video, data sets, etc.)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#000000\">Access to content can be restricted as needed<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#000000\">Required for researchers applying for certain types of federal funding<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#000000\">Usage can be tracked for statistical purposes<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\"><span style=\"text-decoration:underline\">Why not just put this\u00a0material into Blackboard<\/span>?<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color:#000000\">AURA\u00a0makes content available to external audiences (open access availability)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#000000\">AURA&#8217;s content can be indexed by search engine harvesters (such as Google)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"color:#000000\">AURA&#8217;s content is organized into collections and subcollections<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#000000\">BlackBoard was designed as a course management system; not a document warehouse. It doesn\u2019t allow for searching across documents and doesn\u2019t manage collections or access to them as well as AURA does.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">How can you help to build AURA?<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color:#000000\">\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Submit your club\u2019s publications and meeting minutes for inclusion in AURA<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#000000\">\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Submit your publications and research to AURA.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#000000\">\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Submit publications from your program, division, school and college.\u00a0 Help us keep AU\u2019s institutional memory strong in the digital era.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">Want to check out AURA right now?<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color:#000000\"><a href=\"http:\/\/aura.alfred.edu\/\"><span style=\"color:#000000\">http:\/\/aura.alfred.edu<\/span><\/a><\/span><br \/>\n&#8212; Steve Crandall<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is AURA?\u00a0 No, not aura, a distinctive atmosphere, or an energy field from a living being, but AURA.\u00a0 AURA stands for the Alfred University Research and Archive.\u00a0 It&#8217;s Alfred University&#8217;s own digital repository, a place to discover the past and inform the future. \u00a0\u00a0What is a digital repository? 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