From Digital Commons to Alma/Primo: enhancing the dissemination of Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) projects

Sara Hoover

doi:10.5195/jmla.2023.1624

Authors

Sara Hoover Metadata and Scholarly Publishing Librarian, Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library, The George Washington University, Washington, DC https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7359-4442

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5195/jmla.2023.1624

Keywords:

Institutional Repositories, Metadata

Abstract

The Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) project collection is a group of approximately 120 DNP projects archived between 2017 and 2022 in Health Sciences Research Commons (HSRC), the health sciences institutional repository (IR) for the George Washington University. Our project focused on expanding avenues for the dissemination of DNP projects beyond our Digital Commons IR by integrating this content into the library’s instances of Ex Libris Alma and Primo VE. By utilizing the Ex Libris Repository type import profile rather than the OAI-PMH feed, we identified enhanced opportunities for content discovery while likewise retaining better control over individual item records.

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