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institutional repositories as a new strategy that allows universities to apply leverage to the relationships with publishers, scholars and faculty.
"Online storage costs have dropped significantly; repositories are now affordable. Standards like the open archives metadata harvesting protocol are now in place; some progress has also been made on the standards for the underlying metadata itself."
"The development of free, publicly accessible journal article collections in disciplines such as high-energy physics has demonstrated ways in which the network can change scholarly communication by altering dissemination and access patterns; separately, the development of a series of extraordinary digital works had at least suggested the potential of creative authorship specifically for the digital medium to transform the presentation and transmission of scholarship."
discusses the different paths to developing an insittutional repository.
"At the most basic and fundamental level, an institutional repository is a recognition that the intellectual life and scholarship of our universities will increasingly be represented, documented, and shared in digital form, and that a primary responsibility of our universities is to exercise stewardship over these riches: both to make them available and to preserve them."
I appreciate the distinction between scholarly publishing and scholarly communication, we have often mixed these up in classes. Additionally, the exploration of the unfortunate missed opportunities for publications are illuminating.
"I have argued that research libraries must establish new collection development strategies for the digital world, taking stewardship responsibility for content that will be of future scholarly importance. Institutional repositories are a place where they can put much of the material that research libraries identify as worth collecting."
Cautions about institutional repositories:
"I believe that any institutional repository approach that requires deposit of faculty or student works and/or uses the institutional repository as a means of asserting control or ownership over these works will likely fail, and probably deserves to fail. Institutional repositories will succeed precisely because they are responsive to the needs of campus communities, and advance the interests of campus communities and of scholarship broadly."
"We must not lose the crucial distinction between the role of institutions in establishing institutional repositories and the roles of scholarly communities within the institution’s organizational units or within disciplines in creating and managing scholarly communication mechanisms that may build upon an institutional repository infrastructure."
I like the discussion of recognizing the institutional repository as committed to campus community.
Development of infrastructure standards:
Preservable Formats:committments to preserve
Identifiers: reference is not only a vital part of preservation but also of serious concern to publishers.
Rights Documentation: maintanance and mgnt of rights, digitally, can be difficult with the consistent need to refresh and reformat.
Future Developments:
Clustered collections, multi institutions
Federated insittutional repos.
Joint collaborations between public libraries and local government
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Do you think that the institutional repository will work? I wonder given the level of commitment required of faculty. Staff seem to have little difficulty following institutional policy, but will faculty will be willing to submit their papers to an institutional repository? I almost think you would need a member of staff to follow up on the policy and do the actual uploading to ensure consistent use.
ReplyDeleteI agree. It would seem that the staff would constantly be checking for submissions. Additionally, I have read of institutions offering incentives for submissions; I'm not sure how democratic I feel this is. The limited audience of institutional repository submissions really frustrates me. For me, the benefit of submissions ends once student and faculty exit the institution. Poor form, in my opinion.
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