Wendy Robertson, Digital Scholarship Librarian, is responsible for helping to expand support of electronic scholarship and e-publishing, including supporting locally published e-journals and managing the institutional repository. Robertson performs data analysis on digital collections related to batch loading, migrating from one system to another, and aggregating with other information resources. Wendy has worked as a librarian at The University of Iowa Libraries since 2001. Her previous work positions include Electronic Resources Systems Librarian in Enterprise Applications, Electronic Resources Management Unit Head in Technical Services, and Electronic Resources Technical Services Librarian in Serials.
Articles
Collaborating for Sustainable Scholarship: Models that Serve Librarians, Publishers, and Scholars (with Carol MacAdam and Kate Duff), Serials Librarian (2012)
MacAdam and Duff discussed the benefits and challenges of implementing JSTOR's Current Scholarship Program (CSP)....
Starting, Strengthening and Managing Institutional Repositories: A How-To-Do-It Manual [review], Library Resources & Technical Services (2011)
A Collaborative Checklist for E-journal Access (with Rocki Strader, Alison Roth, and Bob Boissy), Serials Librarian (2006)
Strader, Roth and Boissy introduced a checklist which they had developed which indicates the different...
Integrating Resources Cataloging Workshop (with Steven J. Miller), Serials Librarian (2005)
This pre-conference covered the first four sessions of the Serials Cataloging Cooperative Training Program’s Integrating...
Everything you always wanted to know about SFX but were afraid to ask (with Paul A. Soderdahl), The Serials Librarian (2004)
Link resolvers, including Ex Libris’ SFX, use OpenURL to provide library patrons with context-sensitive links,...
Presentations
Managing e-Publishing: Perfect harmony for serialists (with Charlene N. Simser), NASIG (2012)
Serialist as publisher - a great duet? Serialists’ lives at academic libraries revolve around publishing,...
New Life to Old Serials: Digitizing Back Volumes, NASIG (2011)
Many serials titles still exist in print only, and major commercial digitizing efforts often overlook...
Publishing Journals in Digital Commons: Set-up, Launch, and Beyond, Digital Commons Webinar (2011)
This presentation gives an overview of things librarians should do to support journal hosting, including...
Repository Metadata: Challenges of Interoperability, ALCTS Institutional Repository Webinar Series (2011)
This session will give an overview some of the specific challenges in repository metadata including...
Enhancing Existing Content By Transforming Books to Databases, Electronic Resources & Libraries (2011)
The University of Iowa Libraries has converted a few print texts to databases, working with...