Dear Diary, I met with a few library faculty and other department faculty to give them a courtesy overview of our project.
The head of the IR committee and I met with the law school professor who specializes in Copyright. We learned a lot about exclusive rights to copy and distribute, difference in pre & post-1922 materials, and a few exceptions, such as photographs of pre-1922 works which would ordinarily be in the public domain.
We realized the amount of work involved in tracking down individual Copyright Agreements for contributing individuals. We understand better the focused, yet extensive audience that already exists for law faculty. Law faculty can be pre-published and track how many times their pre-prints have been viewed with SSRN. The law faculty specifically already has many of the conveniences we would offer with our IR. So at first glance it would appear that the benefits to contribute to our IR would be neglible. So we need to work to find a way to make it more appealing. I loved the explanation given: "Lawyers are cautious and risk adverse." Aren't we all?
So the next portion is to create a website for our IR project. I don't think we need to reinvent the wheel so these are some of the sample sites I plan to suggest we model our page after and/or link directly to:
FAQs:
https://drum.umd.edu/dspace/help/FAQs.jsp
http://www.ulib.iupui.edu/idea/faq.html
http://libweb.uoregon.edu/catdept/irg/SB_FAQ.html
Glossary:
http://library.osu.edu/events/cs/techseminar04/glossary/repos.html
Webliography & Sample Repositories:
http://www.bc.edu/libraries/about/scholcomm/s-repositories/#examples
RoMEO:
http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/ls/disresearch/romeo/index.html
