McGeachin, Robert
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This collection contains papers and other research self-archived by Robert McGeachin, Associate Professor and Agriculture and Digital Services Librarian at the Texas A&M University Libraries.
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Item Set Your Agricultural Publications Free in the HathiTrust Repository(Taylor & Francis, 2017) McGeachin, Robert B.The HathiTrust repository contains agricultural Experiment Station and Extension Service publications from all 50 of the United States. But to freely display the post-1923 documents, HathiTrust requires a Permission Agreement form giving them a nonexclusive permission to distribute from the copyright holder. Agri-culture librarians are encouraged to obtain signed Permission Agreement forms for the agricultural publications in HathiTrust from their state. Once Permission Agreement forms are obtained from your local copyright holding administrators, submit them to HathiTrust at (feedback@issues.hathitrust.org).Item HathiTrust – How We Set Our Texas Pubs Free(2018-05-16) McGeachin, RobItem Measuring the Impact of Digitized State Agricultural Documents – It’s Not Just Chicken Feed(2018-05-14) McGeachin, Robert B.Digitization of our state’s legacy agricultural documents and making those publications accessible worldwide on the Internet since 2005 has resulted in large numbers of downloads of them. Download statistics from five agricultural publications in our DSpace Institutional Repository (IR) have totaled about 2.7 million downloads from 2005 to the present among 4,774 publications. This averages 560 downloads per publication with a range of 10 to 60,900 downloads per item. The IR is set up to allow and enhance harvesting by Google and 80% of the downloads are directly from Google or Google Scholar links. There is real online demand for retrospective agricultural publications from 1888 to 2009.Item AgNIC 20th Annual Meeting 2015 "HathiTrust -- How To"(2015-05-01) McGeachin, Robert B.Item AgNIC 20th Annual Meeting 2015 "LibGuides for All with Open Access Resources"(2015-05-01) McGeachin, Robert B.Item Preservation of the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station Bulletin in the Digital Repository(Taylor and Francis, 2010-04-23) McGeachin, Robert B.To assist agricultural librarians in their new role as digital preservation and distribution specialists, this article documents the basic procedures for scanning and digitizing print agricultural serial publications and submitting them to a DSpace digital repository, through a case study of a project at Texas A&M University Libraries to digitize Texas Agricultural Experiment Station Bulletins. It is hoped that a dispersed network of similar agricultural materials in all the various land grant university digital repositories could be crawled to harvest the metadata records and make them accessible in a central user-friendly digital library for agriculture.Item AgNIC Pre-conference 2011 “If It’s Digital and In Google – Then They Will Come”(2011-05-17) McGeachin, Robert B.AgNIC offers a two hour pre-conference on how to scan and digitize print items, make derivative versions, including archival PDF/A, for easy access on the Internet, create basic Dublin Core metadata, and how to add digital objects to a digital repository to make them available to the world.Item United States Agricultural Information Network (USAIN) National Preservation Program for the History of Agriculture and Rural Life: Texas Preservation Project 1820-1945, Texas A&M University: Final Report(Texas A&M University Libraries, 2001-04) Gyeszly, Suzanne D.; McGeachin, Robert B.This final report and bibliography of the Texas Preservation Project of the United States Agricultural Information Network (USAIN) National Preservation Program for the History of Agriculture and Rural Life 1820-1945, can serve as a finding guide to the microfilm reels created by this preservation project. The reel numbers listed with each bibliographic entry are located at call number Microform film S 117 U8 reel# in the Sterling C. Evans Library of Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas.Item Bibliography of Texas State and Local Agricultural Literature From 1820-1945.(Texas A&M University Libraries, 1998-09-15) Sandall, Sharon K.; McGeachin, Robert B.This bibliography was compiled for the Texas state and local literature component of the United States Agriculture Information Network (USAIN) Preservation Project Plan. The USAIN Preservation Project Plan is a national coordinated effort to preserve United States agricultural literature. This bibliography is an attempt to identify all Texas agricultural literature published by state and local entities, both governmental and commercial, prior to 1946. There are 1970 monographic and 685 serial titles listed in this bibliography.Item AgNIC Pre-conference 2009 “If It’s Digital and In Google – Then They Will Come”(2009-04-21) McGeachin, Robert B.AgNIC offers a four hour pre-conference on how to scan and digitize print items, make derivative versions for easy access on the Internet, create basic Dublin Core metadata, and how to add digital objects to a digital repository to make them available to the world.Item The Impact of Electronic Bibliographic Databases and Electronic Journal Articles on the Scholar's Information-Seeking Behavior and Personal Collection of "Reprints"(Haworth Press, 2004) McGeachin, Robert B.This article examines the potential changes to the information seeking behavior of scholars and how they manage their own collection of research article “reprints”. With bibliographic databases and electronic journals provided by academic libraries now available at the science scholars’ computer desktop, they can now locate and acquire a portion of needed research articles on their own at any time. They also, in some cases, have older paper copies scanned and delivered by libraries as image files at web retrieval locations. Bibliographic citation management software is now in use by many scholars. Personal information management software is available and could also be used. This article reviews possible scenarios scholars can use to manage this new electronic collection of research articles and possible ways libraries can help them in this scholarly activity.