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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
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
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
October 2007
Cat S. McDowell |
Evaluating Institutional Repository Deployment in American Academe Since Early 2005: Repositories by the Numbers, Part 2 It is time to once again take stock of institutional repositories in America. This article will do so by revisiting several groundbreaking areas, analyzing new statistics and utilizing some new approaches. |
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
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
Mar/Apr 2011
David Seaman |
Discovering the Information Needs of Humanists When Planning an Institutional Repository Through in-person interviews with humanities faculty members, this study examines what information needs are expressed by humanities scholars that an institutional repository can address. |
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. |
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
December 2007 |
Census of Institutional Repositories in the U.S.: A Comparison Across Institutions at Different Stages of IR Development The article begins with background of IR topics and issues, and introduces our methods and characteristics of census respondents. It concludes with an examination of long-term issues pertaining to IRs. |
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
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
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
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
December 2007
Estlund & Neatrour |
Utah Digital Repository Initiative: Building a Support System for Institutional Repositories As the deployment of IRs becomes mature, more libraries will take advantage of consortial or regional ties to provide support, training, and expertise in IR development. This support structure is essential for organizations that otherwise would not have the infrastructure to create an IR. |
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
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
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
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. |
Information Today
August 28, 2006
Barbara Quint |
Institutional Repositories on Target: ARL Survey and Scopus/Scirus Features The Association of Research Libraries has surveyed its members to collect baseline data on institutional repositories, a potentially transforming, technological realignment of scholarly communication. |
D-Lib
Sep/Oct 2009
Mueller et al. |
OA Network: An Integrative Open Access Infrastructure for Germany This article describes concepts, development, and implementation of an overall Open Access infrastructure for Germany. |
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
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
January 2005
Foster & Gibbons |
Understanding Faculty to Improve Content Recruitment for Institutional Repositories The availability of open-source institutional repository (IR) systems has encouraged a proliferation of IRs worldwide, particularly among academic and research institutions. Installing the software, however, is just the first step towards a successful IR. |
D-Lib
December 2008
Peter A. Zuber |
A Study of Institutional Repository Holdings by Academic Discipline In some academic disciplines, participation in institutional repositories is low and it may be difficult to persuade faculty to contribute research. |
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
February 2006
Titia van der Werf-Davelaar |
Facilitating Scholarly Communication in African Studies A look at the aspects of the transformation in academic publishing, looking at it from the perspective of the Africanist community in the Netherlands. |
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
Jul/Aug 2011
Li et al. |
Building a Sustainable Institutional Repository In this age of explosive growth of digital resources, it is becoming ever more important for libraries to provide the variety of contents and services that IRs play an important role in delivering. |
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
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
October 2006
Tyler O. Walters |
Strategies and Frameworks for Institutional Repositories and the New Support Infrastructure for Scholarly Communications An examination of emerging IR developments and explore how IRs can help create a new infrastructure to support scholarly communications and digital research. |
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
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
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
Jul/Aug 2011
Carol Minton Morris |
Open Repositories 2011: Community Meet-up in the "Live Music Capital of the World" The Sixth International Conference on Open Repositories convened in Austin, Texas on June 8, 2011, bringing people from all over the world together to focus on how repositories might be more closely integrated into the technically and community-driven digital scholarly landscape. |
D-Lib
Mar/Apr 2008 |
Clips and Pointers Report of the The Library of Congress Working Group on the future of bibliographic control... A white paper on the preservation in the age of large-scale digitization... Position paper on issues surrounding digital preservation... etc. |
D-Lib
March 2003 |
In Brief The CARL Institutional Repositories Pilot Project... The Australian e-Humanities Gateway... University of Minnesota Electronic Portfolio is Open Source... Nerdi Web on Science and the Internet... etc. |
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
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
Jan/Feb 2009
Carol Minton Morris |
Baltimore SPARC IR and SUN PASIG Meetings At the SPARC Conference and the Sun Microsystems Preservation and Archiving Special Interest Group meeting, attendees grappled with the thorny issues around creating technology and policies to support durable knowledge for future generations in an era of burgeoning information. |
D-Lib
December 2008 |
The Future of Repositories? Patterns for (Cross-)Repository Architectures Over the past few years, repositories have been created as a product intended to foster dissemination of scholarly works, a shared objective for most academic institutions. |
D-Lib
Mar/Apr 2015
Moulaison et al. |
OpenDOAR Repositories and Metadata Practices In spring 2014, authors from the University of Missouri conducted a nation-wide survey on metadata practices among United States-based OpenDOAR repositories |
D-Lib
May/Jun 2008 |
Clips and Pointers Research Library Publishing Services: New Options for University Publishing... The State of America's Libraries... The Seamless Cyberinfrastructure: The Challenges of Studying Users of Mass Digitization and Institutional Repositories... etc. |
D-Lib
May/Jun 2011
Wolski et al. |
Building an Institutional Discovery Layer for Virtual Research Collections This paper describes a nationally funded Australian university initiative to build a research repository which feeds data into both a national research data service and university library discovery tools. Challenges and benefits are discussed. |
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
Sep/Oct 2009
Carol Minton Morris |
Purple Cows and Fringy Propositions A look at the Edinburgh Repository Fringe Festival held this year in July. |
D-Lib
Jul/Aug 2008 |
Clips and Pointers News items on recently issued reports and conferences of interest to digital librarians |
D-Lib
October 2008
Maness et al. |
Using Personas to Understand the Needs and Goals of Institutional Repository Users This study shares the results of an effort to understand the needs and goals of future institutional repository (IR) users at the University of Colorado at Boulder |
D-Lib
September 2003
Pinfield & James |
The Digital Preservation of e-Prints This article addresses the question of whether or not e-prints -- electronic versions of research papers -- should be preserved and then goes on to make some comments about the practical issues that arise from the suggested answer. |
