institutional repositories
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InstitutionalRepositories
Tor Loney, Information Literacy librarianUniversity at Albany Libraries
MIT Libraries:•Database with a set of services to capture, store, index, preserve and redistribute a university’s scholarly research in digital formats
Open Access andInstitutional Repositories
DEFINITIONS
Clifford Lynch:
• Set of services that a university offers to the members of its community for the management and dissemination of digital materials created by the institution and its community membersOpen Access andInstitutional Repositories
DEFINITION
Raym Crow:• Digital collections capturing and preserving the intellectual output of a single or multiple-university community
Open Access andInstitutional Repositories
EVOLUTION
SPARC:• Institutionally defined, Scholarly, Cumulative and perpetual, Open and interoperable
Open Access andInstitutional Repositories
EARLY EXAMPLES
•Founded 1991•Online 1999
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CURRENT EXAMPLES
Open Access andInstitutional Repositories
SOFTWARE
BRICKS
Closed-Source, Fee-Based:
Open Access andInstitutional Repositories
ADVANTAGES
Institution:• Exposure• Cachet• Collaboration• Support and retention• Cost reduction
Open Access andInstitutional Repositories
ADVANTAGES
Open Access provide
s higher citation rates
Open Access andInstitutional Repositories
ADVANTAGES
Author:• Exposure• Speed• Access• Multiformat• Collaboration
Open Access andInstitutional Repositories
ADVANTAGES
Community:• Exposure• Speed• Collaboration• Access
Open Access andInstitutional Repositories
ADVANTAGES
Community:• Shouldn’t we have
access to research our tax dollars paid for?
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OBSTACLES
Over All:
• Lack of awareness
Open Access andInstitutional Repositories
OBSTACLES
Institution:• Startup costs• Maintenance fears• Lack of
models/policies• Lack of awareness
Open Access andInstitutional Repositories
OBSTACLES
Author:•“No time”•Tenure requirements•View IRs as non-scholarly•Technophobia
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SUGGESTIONS
Institution:• Demonstrate value• Develop repository
and policy simultaneously
• Tailor to specific needs• Gain campus support
Open Access andInstitutional Repositories
SUGGESTIONS
Author:•Demonstrate value•Address fears•Make voluntary•Provide clear definitions•Provide full service
Open Access andInstitutional Repositories
SUGGESTIONS
Community:• Ongoing promotion• Extend to students• Host community
content• Include other
collections• Cross-fertilization
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SUGGESTIONS
Tell Everyone!
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FURTHER READING• Albanese, A. (2009). Institutional Repositories: Thinking beyond the box.
Library Journal, 134(4), 26-28.• Crow, R (2002). The case for institutional repositories: A SPARC position
paper. ARL, 223(August 2002), 1-4.• Davis, P. M., & Connolly, M. L. (2007). Evaluating the reasons for non-use
of Cornell University's installation of DSpace. D-Lib Magazine, 13(3), doi:10.1045/march2007-davis
• Drake, M. (2004). Institutional repositories: Hidden treasures. Searcher, 12(5), 41-45.
• Lynch, C. (2003). Institutional repositories: Essential infrastructure for scholarship in the digital Age. ARL, 226(February 2003). 1-7.
• Poynder, R. (2006). Clear blue water [Web log post]. Retrieved October 17, 2012, from http://ia700201.us.archive.org/13/items/The_Basement_Interviews/BlueWaterMain.pdf
• SPARC Institutional Repository Checklist & Resource Guide• Swan, A. (2010). The open access citation advantage: Studies and results
to date. Technical Report, School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, Southampton. Retrieved from http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/18516/2/Citation_advantage_paper.pdf
• Xu, L., Liu, J. & Fang, Q. (2011). Analysis on open access citation advantage: An empirical study based on Oxford open journals. Proceedings of the 2011 iConference, February 11, 2011, Seattle. Retrieved from http://delivery.acm.org/10.1145/1950000/1940819/p426-xu.pdf?ip=169.226.84.8&acc=ACTIVE%20SERVICE&CFID=130923915&CFTOKEN=98869421&__acm__=1350923458_008c17ac398aa3046147e77d3aad516e
Open Access andInstitutional Repositories
CONTACT
• Information Literacy, Emerging Technology, Copyright,Open Access, and Collaboration
Interests
• ACRL Technology in University Libraries Section• NYLA Section on Management of Information Resources and
Technology• University at Albany Libraries Emerging Technologies Committee
Professional Association Involvement
• I am an Information Literacy librarian and instructor at the University at Albany, and am also currently engaged in a SUNY Innovative Instruction Technology Granton the creation of an online information literacy tool.