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Location
Weatherford, Oklahoma
Document Type
Panel Discussion
Event Website
https://www.mythsoc.org/mythcon/mythcon-54.htm
Start Date
24-7-2026 4:30 PM
End Date
24-7-2026 5:20 PM
Description
The 5,122 posted works in the Mythsoc digital collections have been downloaded 1,560,574 times from July 2017 to June 2026. 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. The Panelists will present on the success of the first eight 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, during the past few years Mythsoc launched into making videos of Mythcon and Online Mythopoeic 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 will also be an opportunity for potential authors to ask questions about writing for Mythlore and The Mythic Circle.
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From Dust Bowl to Digital: Fueling Your Research in the MythSoc Archives
Weatherford, Oklahoma
The 5,122 posted works in the Mythsoc digital collections have been downloaded 1,560,574 times from July 2017 to June 2026. 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. The Panelists will present on the success of the first eight 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, during the past few years Mythsoc launched into making videos of Mythcon and Online Mythopoeic 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 will also be an opportunity for potential authors to ask questions about writing for Mythlore and The Mythic Circle.
https://dc.swosu.edu/mythcon/mc54/schedule/8
