Ever wonder what goes into running a digital archive of agricultural literature from around the world? Representatives from AgEcon Search and agriRxiv will give overviews of their products and discuss the behind the scenes work that goes into managing them. Speakers will discuss the software platforms that they use and what their staff do to keep the archives up and running. They’ll also cover how they develop collection policies and promote their product to agricultural researchers. This webinar is hosted by the USAIN Agricultural Economics Research, Information, and Education (AERIE) IG.

When: Apr 27, 2023 12:00 PM Central Time (US and Canada)

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More about Speaker, argriRxiv, and AgEcon Search

Erika Newton and agriRxiv

Erika Newton is the Publisher for journals and research products at CABI, an international, inter-governmental, not-for-profit organization that improves people’s lives worldwide by providing information and applying scientific expertise to solve problems in agriculture and the environment.

Erika oversees the growing journals portfolio and the preprint server agriRxiv, a free, open access source of unpublished preprints across the agricultural sciences. Founded in 2017 by Open Access India (OAI) and relaunched through CABI in collaboration with OAI, agriRxiv benefits from CABI’s expertise in agriculture and the environment, providing a sustainable new home for agricultural preprints.

Linda Eells

Linda Eells is an Associate Librarian and Head of Waite Library in the Department of Applied Economics at the University of Minnesota. She is a Co-Director of the AgEcon Search repository with research interests including scholarly communication and open access, most recently focused on diversity and equity issues inherent in the publishing ecosystem.

Shannon Farrell

Shannon Farrell is the Interim Research Data Services Librarian and Co-Director of AgEcon Search. Shannon leads the University Libraries' Research Data Services Team, which is a group that is focused on campus-wide education and consultation around data management and data sharing. She is also a scientific data curator for the Data Repository for the University of Minnesota (DRUM) and Co-Director of AgEcon Search, an open access repository that houses scholarly research in the fields of agricultural and applied economics.

AgEcon Search

AgEcon Search (AES) is a free, open access permanent archive of the digital scholarly works of agricultural and applied economics researchers worldwide, providing stewardship, reliable long-term access, and broad dissemination. Initiated in 1995 as a cooperative project of the University of Minnesota Department of Applied Economics and University of Minnesota Libraries with 50 papers, AES has evolved into an international resource with 180,000 papers with current and retrospective content in 15 languages from all over the world. Digitization projects have ensured the preservation and dissemination of thousands of research papers ranging from 1914 to the present. Our global reach is evident in the 15,000 daily visitors from over 170 countries, making us the largest free, digital library of literature in agricultural and applied economics in the world.

Hope you can join us!

Kendra Spahr and Livia Olsen

AERIE IG Co-Conveners