Document Type
Article
Organization
Southwestern Oklahoma State University
Conference Title
Mythcon 53 / Diversicon 31
City and State
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Conference Date
Aug 2-5, 2024
Publication Date
8-2-2024
Abstract
The 4,411 posted works in the Mythsoc digital collections have been downloaded 782,713 times and streamed 1,767 times in 220 countries from July 2017 to March 2024. These usage statistics show that scholarship posted on the Mythsoc digital collections serves the research needs of scholars internationally, provides free and easy discoverability to authors’ works, and usage reports to contributors that provide evidence of the impact of their work. Janet Brennan Croft, Victoria Gaydosik, and Phillip Fitzsimmons will present on the success of the first seven years of using the SWOSU Digital Commons as the platform for the Mythopoeic Society Archives. This presentation will introduce you to the Mythopoeic Society Collections page of the repository https://dc.swosu.edu/mythsoc/, where digital versions of Mythlore, The Mythic Circle, and past issues of Mythprint— with a two-year moving wall—are free to the public. The collections include discontinued journals, Mythcon programs, proceedings, souvenirs, and art. Also, Mythsoc recently launched into making videos of Mythcon and Midwinter seminars available by streaming. We will demonstrate how to find articles or whole issues of the journals to read or download; show how an article is submitted on the platform for Mythlore and The Mythic Circle; and use an author’s account for submitting articles, corresponding with the editor, and receiving usage reports with download frequency of published articles. The presenters will also discuss copyright infringement issues found in some event presentation videos and recommend changes so that presentation videos at events can be legally made available on the digital repository. This is a joint presentation by Janet Brennan Croft, Mythlore editor; Victoria Gaydosik, The Mythic Circle editor; and Phillip Fitzsimmons, SWOSU Digital Commons administrator. This will also be an opportunity for potential authors to ask questions about writing for Mythlore and Mythic Circle.
Recommended Citation
Fitzsimmons, Phillip; Croft, Janet; and Gaydosik, Victoria, "Check Your Dashboard, Your Gauges May Be High! What the Mythsoc Digital Archive Can Do For New and Seasoned Scholars" (2024). Faculty Articles & Research. 67.
https://dc.swosu.edu/libraries_articles/67
Comments
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