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D-Lib May/Jun 2011 Li & Banach	Institutional Repositories and Digital Preservation: Assessing Current Practices at Research Libraries Digital preservation is a significant problem facing libraries. Libraries are struggling with how to preserve the scholarly and cultural record now that this information is increasingly being produced in digital formats.
D-Lib March 2003 Stephen Pinfield	Open Archives and UK Institutions: An Overview This paper provides a brief overview of current activity in the development of open archives (particularly e-print repositories) within UK universities and similar institutions and discusses some of the issues the open archives activity is raising.
D-Lib December 2001 Stephen Pinfield	How Do Physicists Use an E-Print Archive? This paper describes how physicists make use of an established centralized subject-based e-prints service, arXiv (formerly known as the Los Alamos XXX service), and discusses the possible implications of this use for institutional multidisciplinary e-print archives...
D-Lib May/Jun 2007	Digital Preservation Service Provider Models for Institutional Repositories: Towards Distributed Services Distributed preservation services require further investigation about the interaction of service providers and client repositories. While there may be some emerging consensus on the range of services that may be needed, the primary requirement is for market testing conditions.
D-Lib Jul/Aug 2004 Lavoie & Dempsey	Thirteen Ways of Looking at...Digital Preservation Fulfilling the promise of integrated and readily accesible material requires the cultivation of stakeholder communities that meaningfully engage with digital information environments.
Searcher May 2004 Miriam A. Drake	Institutional Repositories Hidden Treasures Librarians are taking leadership roles in planning and building repositories now being created to manage, preserve, and maintain the digital assets, intellectual output, and histories of institutions.
D-Lib February 2007 H.M. Gladney	Digital Preservation in a National Context: Questions and Views of an Outsider Today's National Digital Information Infrastructure Preservation Program is focused on cultural content similar to traditional research library holdings, with little attention to preserving practical information critical to most social infrastructure and of interest to most citizens.
D-Lib November 2002 Richard K. Johnson	Institutional Repositories Partnering with faculty to enhance scholarly communication using digital collections that capture and preserve the intellectual output of a single or multi-university community.
D-Lib Sep/Oct 2010 Adamick & Reznik-Zellen	Representation and Recognition of Subject Repositories Subject repositories are under-studied and under-represented in library science literature and in the scholarly communication and digital library fields.
D-Lib Mar/Apr 2013 Joachim Schopfel	Adding Value to Electronic Theses and Dissertations in Institutional Repositories In this paper, we investigate what can be done to improve the quality of content and service provision in an open environment, in order to increase impact, traffic and usage.
D-Lib May/Jun 2007 Margaret Henty	Ten Major Issues in Providing a Repository Service in Australian Universities This article identifies the issues relating to repository management that are seen as important by a group of senior academic administrators. These reflect to some degree the way in which repositories have developed in Australia.
D-Lib September 2005 Lynch & Lippincott	Institutional Repository Deployment in the United States as of Early 2005 Institutional repositories are now clearly and broadly being recognized as essential infrastructure for scholarship in the digital world.
D-Lib Jan/Feb 2012 Lewis et al.	SWORD: Facilitating Deposit Scenarios Digital Repositories have the ability to be integrated into the life blood of research. They can collect, manage, preserve, and make available research outputs.
D-Lib Sep/Oct 2015 Mary Wu	The Future of Institutional Repositories at Small Academic Institutions: Analysis and Insights While all institutional repositories have experienced the same obstacles relating to a lack of faculty participation, those at small universities face unique challenges.
D-Lib February 2008	Carrots and Sticks: Some Ideas on How to Create a Successful Institutional Repository An overview of the implementation process of RepositoriUM and the most effective measures conducted to achieve a successful IR implementation.
D-Lib Jul/Aug 2004 Neil Beagrie	The Continuing Access and Digital Preservation Strategy for the UK Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) Ultimately, digital preservation will be successful when it can be seen not as a stand alone institutional activity but as an activity embedded in how institutions manage and approach digital information and resources on an ongoing basis.
D-Lib Mar/Apr 2014 Rimkus et al.	Digital Preservation File Format Policies of ARL Member Libraries: An Analysis While concerted efforts have been made in the library community to encourage common standards, digital preservation policies regularly vary from one digital library service to another.
D-Lib April 2004 Chris Awre	Report on the 3rd OAI Workshop: CERN, Geneva, 12 - 14 February 2004 Highlights of the February OAI (Open Archives Initiative) Workshop in Geneva.
D-Lib Jul/Aug 2014 Prost & Schopfel	Degrees of Openness: Access Restrictions in Institutional Repositories Institutional repositories contain a growing number of items that are metadata without full text, metadata with full text only for authorized users, and items that are under embargo or that are restricted to on-campus access.
D-Lib September 2005 van Westrienen & Lynch	Academic Institutional Repositories: Deployment Status in 13 Nations as of Mid 2005 Institutional repositories are becoming well established as campus infrastructure components.
D-Lib October 2009 Steinhart et al.	Establishing Trust in a Chain of Preservation: The TRAC Checklist Applied to a Data Staging Repository (DataStaR) We describe our experience applying the Trustworthy Repositories Audit & Certification Criteria and Checklist as a framework for specifying system, policy, and documentation requirements to ensure that DataStaR is an effective partner in the entire chain of preservation activities.
D-Lib May 2002 William G. LeFurgy	Levels of Service for Digital Repositories This article outlines conditions that govern the persistence of digital materials and suggests a model for future levels of service for digital repositories...
D-Lib April 2003 Searle & Thompson	Preservation Metadata Pragmatic first steps at the National Library of New Zealand
D-Lib December 2008 Priscilla Caplan	Repository to Repository Transfer of Enriched Archival Information Packages Responsibility for digital preservation must be distributed among many heterogeneous, geographically dispersed repositories.
D-Lib April 2007 Davis & Connolly	Institutional Repositories: Evaluating the Reasons for Non-use of Cornell University's Installation of DSpace Cornell's DSpace is largely underpopulated and underused by its faculty.
D-Lib March 2004 Catherine Ayre & Adrienne Muir	The Right to Preserve: The Rights Issues of Digital Preservation The Copyright and Licensing for Digital Preservation (CLDP) project, which was funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Board, ran from September 2002 to March 2004. The project's aim was to investigate whether and how copyright legislation and licensed access to digital content affect the ability of libraries to provide long-term access to that content, and to suggest solutions for any problems identified.
D-Lib Mar/Apr 2008 Brian F. Lavoie	The Fifth Blackbird: Some Thoughts on Economically Sustainable Digital Preservation How do we ensure that digital preservation activities survive beyond the current availability of soft-money funding?
D-Lib October 2007 Thomas & McDonald	Measuring and Comparing Participation Patterns In Digital Repositories: Repositories by the Numbers, Part 1 This article summarizes findings from a study of author/depositor distribution patterns within scholarly digital repositories.
D-Lib Jan/Feb 2013 Webb et al.	'Oh, you wanted us to preserve that?!' Statements of Preservation Intent for the National Library of Australia's Digital Collections Clarifying preservation intentions is likely to be a good starting point for preservation planning for diverse digital collections.
D-Lib April 2004 Brian F. Lavoie	Implementing Metadata in Digital Preservation Systems: The PREMIS Activity This article discusses the objectives, current status, and future activities of PREMIS, an expert working group focused on the topic of implementing preservation metadata within digital archiving systems.
D-Lib Sep/Oct 2012 Vermaaten et al.	Identifying Threats to Successful Digital Preservation: the SPOT Model for Risk Assessment Digital preservation strategies, as well as the processes and tools that implement those strategies, are designed to secure the long-term future of digital materials. A successful digital preservation strategy must account for and mitigate the impact of various threats.
D-Lib Nov/Dec 2013 Paul Vierkant	2012 Census of Open Access Repositories in Germany: Turning Perceived Knowledge Into Sound Understanding Germany's open access repository landscape is one of the largest in the world. The key findings of this survey shall help stakeholders by identifying trends in the development of open access repositories in Germany.
D-Lib August 2007 Oya Y. Rieger	Select for Success: Key Principles in Assessing Repository Models As web services become ubiquitous in our digital lives, designing flexible and interoperable repositories is essential in order to meet the evolving needs of users - both from end-user and system/service manager perspectives.
D-Lib Jan/Feb 2013 Burns et al.	Institutional Repositories: Exploration of Costs and Value Little is known about the costs academic libraries incur to implement and manage institutional repositories and the value these institutional repositories offer to their communities.
D-Lib Nov/Dec 2010 Adamick & Reznik-Zellen	Trends in Large-Scale Subject Repositories Noting a lack of broad empirical studies on subject repositories, the authors investigate subject repository trends that reveal common practices despite their apparent isolated development.
D-Lib October 2007 Andrew Treloar et al.	The Data Curation Continuum: Managing Data Objects in Institutional Repositories The single repository approach, while initially attractive, suffers from a range of implementation challenges. These challenges can be best understood and addressed when considered in terms of the data curation continua.
D-Lib Nov/Dec 2013 Schopfel & Soukouya	Providing Access to Electronic Theses and Dissertations: A Case Study from Togo The self-archiving of scientific work in an open access repository, is often considered as the choice for developing countries because of lower investment and operational costs. We will provide a review of relevant literature on the topic.
D-Lib February 2002 Stewart Granger	Digital Preservation and Deep Infrastructure Institutions should adopt both a pragmatic approach and a strategic approach to preservation of digital data.
D-Lib August 2007 Carr & Brody	Size Isn't Everything: Sustainable Repositories as Evidenced by Sustainable Deposit Profiles This article attempts to start developing a workable metric for a reasonable rate of ingest that is consistent with capturing the community's scientific and scholarly output. Such a measure is needed both for evaluating the performance of a single repository.
D-Lib May/Jun 2015 Scott Carlson	An Assessment of Institutional Repositories in the Arab World The history and development of the digital repository in Western archives and libraries have been well documented. This is less true for other regions of the world, especially for Arabic-speaking countries and territories.
D-Lib Nov/Dec 2015 Artini et al.	The OpenAIRE Literature Broker Service for Institutional Repositories OpenAIRE is the European infrastructure for Open Access scholarly communication. It provides access to a graph of objects relative to publications, datasets, people, organizations, projects, and funders.
D-Lib January 2002 Hilary Berthon	Safekeeping A cooperative approach to building a digital preservation resource...
D-Lib Mar/Apr 2014 Lawton & Manning	Managing a National Health Repository Subject based repositories are well suited to disciplines such as the health sciences, where repositories are evolving rapidly. In Ireland, as in other countries, the healthcare sector produces a vast quantity of research and grey literature.
D-Lib Jul/Aug 2013 April Younglove	Rethinking the Digital Media Library for RIT's The Wallace Center The Digital Preservation Team looked at the repository's current performance and requirements for ensuring its future success, and examined four different approaches that are in use by research institutions today.
D-Lib March 2006	In Brief The NSF National Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Education Digital Library (NSDL) Program... Community Dimensions of Learning Object Repositories... PerX: Pilot Engineering Repository Xsearch... etc.
D-Lib May/Jun 2015 Goethals et al.	Facing the Challenge of Web Archives Preservation Collaboratively: The Role and Work of the IIPC Preservation Working Group This article documents goals and activities of the IIPC Preservation Working Group, such as a survey about the current state of preservation in member web archives and a number of collaborative projects.
D-Lib Mar/Apr 2015 Bishoff & Smith	Managing Digital Collections Survey Results In spring 2014, DuraSpace commissioned The Bishoff Group to conduct a survey of the digital collection management practices performed by academic libraries that are not members of the Association of Research Libraries.
D-Lib Nov/Dec 2012 Joan E. Beaudoin	Context and Its Role in the Digital Preservation of Cultural Objects In discussions surrounding digital preservation, context -- those properties of an object related to its creation and preservation that make the object's origins, composition, and purpose clear -- has been identified as a critical aspect of preservation metadata.
D-Lib June 2005 Jantz & Giarlo	Digital Preservation: Architecture and Technology for Trusted Digital Repositories To ensure that current digital archives can be trusted to be available in the future, methods, practices, and standards need to be defined.
D-Lib January 2000 Gail M. Hodge	Best Practices for Digital Archiving: An Information Life Cycle Approach Digital information is fragile in ways that differ from traditional technologies, such as paper or microfilm. It is more easily corrupted or altered without recognition...