Faculty Outreach With the Content Liberation Project

In January 2016, the faculty of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-Chapel Hill) adopted an open access policy, which encouraged faculty members to deposit their articles in the Carolina Digital Repository (CDR). The UNC-Chapel Hill Libraries’ Open Access Implementation Team was then charged with increasing the amount of content in the CDR and raising faculty awareness of the university’s new open-access policy and author rights issues. In this chapter, we will discuss the challenges of locating and harvesting content for the repository, the outreach strategies we used with faculty members from diverse departments, and the assessment of the project’s overall success. We also share findings from our analysis of the content we collected and recommendations for replicating or scaling up similar projects