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Institutional RepositoriesInstitutional Repositories
Challenges, Choices, Changes
Ina Smith (University of Pretoria)
Locating the Power of In-between Conference
1 – 2 July 2008 Centurion, South Africa
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What is an Institutional Repository?What is an Institutional Repository?
• Set of services• Management & dissemination of research
material• Organizational commitment• Stewardship• Long-term preservation• Organization, (open) access, distribution
(Lynch 2003)
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Challenge #1:Challenge #1:
Increase/ improve research profile of individual researchers & institution
H-Index
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Research on IR
Increased visibility,usage, impact
Increase in citation rate
Impact on NRF Rating, H-index etc.
Shanghai University List
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Challenge #2:Challenge #2:
More IR’s in Africa and South Africa
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Challenge #3:Challenge #3:
Share & help other institutions (leapfrogging)
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Challenge #4:Challenge #4:
Sell the idea to members of own institution
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Challenge #5:Challenge #5:
Populate your IR
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Challenge #6:Challenge #6:
Develop skills – IT, Library staff
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Challenge #7:Challenge #7:
Get publishers to formulate policies on self-archiving
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Challenge #8:Challenge #8:
Change mindsets towards open source
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Challenge #9:Challenge #9:
OAI-PMH Compliancy
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Challenge #10:Challenge #10:
Preservation/ curation
Will your work withstand the test
of times to come?
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Other common challenges …Other common challenges …
• Adoption rate by academics• Providing for sustainability• Developing policies• Managing intellectual property rights• Cost management• Curation of data sets
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“Challenges are what make life interestinginteresting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningfulmeaningful.”
Joshua J. Marine
“People are like rubber bandsrubber bands. They are most valuablevaluable when they are stretchedstretched, not when they are at rest.”
John C. Maxwell
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BibliographyBibliography
Clifford A. Lynch, "Institutional Repositories: Essential Infrastructure for Scholarship in the Digital Age" ARL, no. 226 (February 2003): 1-7.