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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 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.
Information Today June 13, 2005 Barbara Quint	Elsevier's Scirus Opens Repository Search Service Institutional repositories of digital data at universities and other research institutions may now receive deeper, more thorough indexing and full-text delivery through Elsevier's free, sci-tech search engine, Scirus.
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 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 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 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 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.
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 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 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.
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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.
Information Today February 2007 Miriam A. Drake	Scholarly Communication in Turmoil Two leading experts provide some insight into scholarly publishing now and in the future.
ONLINE Jul/Aug 2005 Greg R. Notess	Scholarly Web Searching: Google Scholar and Scirus Both Scholar and Scirus have potential for information professionals and end users. At this point, each covers a certain segment of scholarly material, but plenty of problems remain. Other search tools continue to serve the scholarly community better.
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 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 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.
Information Today May 6, 2013 Abby Clobridge	Open Access Theses & Dissertations: Launch of a New OA Discovery Tool As the body of open access literature continues to grow, figuring out how to access OA-specific material has remained a challenge for researchers.
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.
Information Today July 18, 2005 Paula J. Hane	Elsevier Enhances Scopus Scopus, the abstract and indexing database of scientific, technological, and medical research information developed by Elsevier, has been wildly successful since its launch late last year. New features are now being introduced.
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.
Information Today January 23, 2006 Barbara Quint	Elsevier's Scopus Introduces Citation Tracker: Challenge to Thomson ISI's Web of Science? Elsevier's Scopus Citation Tracker service expands the functionality of its "cited by" feature on its search results page.
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 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 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 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 Nov/Dec 2009 Samson C. Soong	Measuring Citation Advantages of Open Accessibility This article describes a study to measure the actual effect of open accessibility on citation rates.
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.
Information Today November 22, 2004 Barbara Quint	Google Scholar Focuses on Research-Quality Content The launch of Google Scholar may lead Yahoo! to upgrade searching and presentation of results from its own collection of material from publishers, societies, libraries, and library vendors acquired through its active Content Acquisition Program.
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.
Information Today March 15, 2004 Paula J. Hane	Elsevier Announces Scopus Service After two years of planning, development, and initial testing by a select group of about 20 university libraries, Elsevier has finally made an official announcement of the first fully functioning version of Scopus, its highly anticipated, full-text linking, abstracting and indexing database.
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 Sep/Oct 2013	In Brief and In the News Assessing the Impact of Library Discovery Technology on Content Usage... A New Way to Follow the Research Trail... GreyGuide - Guide to Good Practice in Grey Literature...
D-Lib Mar/Apr 2013 Elias Tzoc	A Mobile Interface for DSpace As libraries continue to work on new technology developments, a mobile interface for their institutional repositories can be a good new way to reach out to faculty and other interested parties.
Information Today June 25, 2007 Paula J. Hane	Scirus Partners With FAST and Elsevier Publishing to Create Topic Pages Scirus has announced it is partnering with FAST and the Elsevier Publishing Division to provide an additional free online resource for the scientific community that will create more of a portal community for the Scirus site.
D-Lib Jan/Feb 2014	In Brief and In the News NISO Altmetrics Project: Standardizing New Alternative Assessment Metrics... Purposeful Gaming and Biodiversity Heritage Library... ACM Launches New E-Books Series Covering Entire Spectrum of Computer Science Topics...
D-Lib October 2007 Anna Gold	Cyberinfrastructure, Data, and Libraries, Part 2: Libraries and the Data Challenge: Roles and Actions for Libraries Once libraries and librarians have forged new partnerships with scientists and data managers, then they will be truly integral to the stewardship of data as a vital part of the scholarly record.
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 June 2004 Norbert Lossau	Search Engine Technology and Digital Libraries: Libraries Need to Discover the Academic Internet If libraries do not want to become marginalized in a key area of their traditional services, they need to acknowledge the challenges that come with the globalization of scholarly information, the existence and further growth of the academic internet .
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.