Future of Institutional Repositories

INSTITUTIONAL REPOSITORIES: PRESENT & FUTURE

IR FOR EVERYBO

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Knowledge is capital at universities

but publishers control this

capital

THE SOLUTION:INSTITUTION

ALREPOSITORI

ES

INSTUTIONAL

REPOSITORIES

ARE:

2003: A strategic response to the

opportunities of the digital networked

environment and the problems in today’s

scholarly journal system (Johnson)

Scholarship is changing

But they can be

more than this

a mechanism for ensuring access

to knowledge produced at a

college or university (Yeates 96)

(Bankier and Smith 3)

new technologiesnew ways of discoveryCOLLABORATIVEINTER-DISCIPLINARY

The Repository

is for everyone

students should

be involved

memory hole

coursework goes down the

Institutional Repositories can

enhance the curriculum

Institutional repositories can be Demonstrative

Institutional Repositories can be Informative

IS LOCAL

Content

DiscoveryIs GLOBAL

There are some challenges:

BUY-INAWARENESS

USAGECOPYRIGHT

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SOLUTIONS:

assessmentoutreachoptimizati

on

What I’m Excited About:

CommunityStudent groups

MultimediaGoogle Scholar

Works Cited

Robin Yeates. "Over The Horizon Institutional Repositories" Vine 33.2 (2003): 96-99. ABI/INFORM Global, Proquest. Web. 25 Jun. 2012.

R.K. Johnson. “Institutional Repositories: Partnering with Faculty to Enhance Scholarly Communication” D-Lib Magazine (November 2002). Web. 25 Jun. 2012

Jean-Gabriel Bankier and Courtney Smith. "Repository Collection Policies" Australian Academic and Research Libraries (2011). Available at: http://works.bepress.com/courtney_a_smith/7

Related Readings:

Jean-Gabriel Bankier, Connie Foster & Glen Wiley. “Institutional Repositories— Strategies For The Present And Future”. The Serials Librarian, 56.1-4 (2009): 109-115

Karen Markey, et al. "Unheard Voices: Institutional Repository End-Users." College & Research Libraries 72.1 (2011): 21-42. Library Literature & Information Science Full Text (H.W. Wilson). Web. 30 Apr. 2012

Zuccala, Alesia, Charles Oppenheim, and Rajveen Dhiensa. "Managing And Evaluating Digital Repositories." Information Research 13.1 (2008): 7. Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts with Full Text. Web. 30 Apr. 2012.

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