Perceived values and benefits of institutional repositories. In total we ingest content from over 2,000 data sources. Fsu libraries operates their institutional repository ir on the open source. Institutional repositories were first developed as an online solution for collecting, preserving, and disseminating the scholarship of universities, colleges, and other research institutions. Pdf institutional repositoriesused in this paper to mean digital collections. It provides guidelines on depositing in and accessing material from wiredspace, as well as oa and oer resources. Institutional repositories and the institutional repository. Its maintenance must be an institutional strategic goal.
Institutional repositories irs have become established components of many academic libraries. There is a parent original repository, and two derived repositories. The development of an institutional repository redefines the production and dissemination of scholarly material within an academic community. Introduction to using xnat as an institutional repository.
Imagingbased research is becoming increasingly important to research institutions. As an ir matures it will face the challenge of how to scale up its operations to increase the amount. Once institutional repositories are established in each institution the next step is to form a network ofthese repositories across the continent which will further enhance the academic and research capabilities of the continent. Institutional repositories, online archives of locally produced scholarly works for the purpose of preserving and disseminating research, are a relatively new activity for higher education institutions. Institutional repositories institutional repositories are. Open access, almostoa, oa policies, and institutional. Search the bibliography the institutional repository bibliography irb presents selected englishlanguage articles, books, technical reports, and other scholarly textual sources that are useful in understanding institutional repositories. Institutional repositories, a new platform in higher. This article reflects a study about the institutional repositories. International journal of digital library services, 22, 5868. An institutional repository can also be explained as a webbased database for. The institutional repositories grasp different kinds of publication such as theses, dissertations, research reports, journal articles etc. Building an institutional repository is a big job, but like all big jobs it can be broken into a series of logical steps.
Institutional repositories, open access and copyright what. Jean, kim, and yakel, 2007 which provides one of the most comprehensive overviews of current ir practices including staffing, finances, planning. Institutional repositories provide scholars with a common platform so that everyone in the institution can contribute scholarly material to promote crosscampus interdisciplinary research. Ui contentd using contentdm as an institutional reppyository upper midwest contentdm users group november 14, 2011 lisa sjoberg, concordia jeff jenson, gustavus adolphus nat wilson, carleton carol eyler carletoncarol eyler, carleton. Institutional repositories irs, on the other hand, have evolved as part of the open access movement and aim to collect and provide free access to the research. Undercounting file downloads from institutional repositories, journal of library administration, vol. Ikhuomoregbe abstracteurope is the leading continent in terms of active adoption and use of digital libraries particularly institutional repositories irs. Institutional repositories research papers academia. Billings many research and educational institutions are finding the promises of creating and maintaining an ir alluring, and in many cases libraries are intimately, often centrally, involved in this effort. Institutional repositories irs have been developed and promoted primarily as a means to republish scholarly content previously published elsewhereusually in journals, festschriften, or. Institutional repositoriesused in this paper to mean digital collections capturing and preserving the intellectual output of a single or multiuniversity communityprovide a compelling response to two strategic issues facing academic institutions. Institutional repositories are also described as a 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 members lynch, 2003.
The publishing giant elsevier became a major player in the institutional repository landscape wednesday with the acquisition of the private company bepress. It is found that major documents deposited in institutional repository are theses, dissertations, conference papers, journal articles, reports, patents, etc. A selfevaluation tool for documenting best practices in institutional repositories version 1. In 20, for instance, danny kingsley pointed out that the percentage of oa content in australia fell as a result of the. It is stated that most of the institutes adopt the open source ir softwares for creatingdeveloping their own repositories. The repository publishing article really only talks about two things of significance. The repository quickly evolved into a platform for libraries to publish and showcase the entire breadth.
The purpose of institutional repositories in uk higher. Executive director, confederation of open access repositories. The main perception of knowledge management is of huge help in the advancement of institutional repository because knowledge management is a set of procedure aimed at generating, gathering, preserving. A value chain is the collection of activities that combine to design, produce, and. Features, architecture, design and implementation technologies a. Complete customization of policies and user interface 3. Heres a process you can customize for your library and institution. Jean, karen markey, and jihyun kim abstract this article reports on the archival implications of the 2006 census of institutional repositories. After the merge, a fourth merged repository is created. A librarians process for building an institutional repository building an institutional repository is a big job, but like all big jobs it can be broken into a series of logical steps. Each day, it becomes clearer and clearer that academic institutions, corporations, and other organizations will no longer pay the prices charged by scholarly publishers. The dilemmas of digital library of theses and dissertations and institutional repositories coexistence and its implications are discussed and possible paths to be considered by actors, in the. Institutional repository bibliography digital scholarship.
Elsevier makes move into institutional repositories with. Jun 15, 2011 the institutional repository bibliography irb presents selected englishlanguage articles, books, technical reports, and other scholarly textual sources that are useful in understanding institutional repositories. This paper focuses on institutional repositories, but, for the sake of clarity, we distinguish among other types of repositories that exist. About institutional repositories fordham university. The new institutional repository icons will link you to free full text of the article at an institutional repository that it is not available free from the journal or pmc. Pdf the gradual merging of repository and cris solutions to. Irs are an excellent vehicle for working papers or copies of published articles and conference papers.
Lynch further notes that essential services include the manage. A librarians process for building an institutional repository library connect blueprint for success 2. Jean, kim, and yakel, 2007 which provides one of the most comprehensive overviews of current ir practices including staffing, finances, planning, system selection, policies, benefits, and beneficiaries. Alfa network babel library in the context of institutional repositories 62. Open access publications may be a means of increasing availability of scholarly materials.
Faculty members can selfpublish their preprints immediately, with the possibility of. Full merges are typically used during development processes, when there are two different repositories that need to be merged. For example, the icon indicated as a in figure 2 is for the deep blue repository at the university of michigan library. The purpose of this chapter is to present the development and current situation of institutional repositories irs in india. I agree with the merge, as long as this article institutional repository is the one that remains, and the other repository publishing is merged into this one. Studies have shown that articles freely available on the internet are cited more often than their paper counterparts. Webometrics ranking of institutional digital repositories of india. Pdf much has been said in recent times about the alleged dichotomy between institutional repositories irs and current research information systems. Much has been said in recent times about the alleged dichotomy between institutional repositories irs and current research information systems criss. Webometrics ranking of institutional digital repositories of.
Institutional repositories irs bring together all of a universitys research under one umbrella, with an aim to preserve and provide access to that research. About institutional repositories institutional repositories irs bring together all of a universitys research under one umbrella, with an aim to preserve and provide access to that research. Jean, karen markey, and jihyun kim abstract this article reports on the archival implications of the 2006 census of institutional repositories in the united states1 and followup interviews with the. Developing institutional repositories does not require that each institution act entirely on its own. The files are then merged into one dataset using zotero because the. The gradual merging of repository and cris solutions to meet. Institutional repositories used in this paper to mean digital collections capturing and preserving the intellectual output of a single or multiuniversity communityprovide a compelling response to two strategic issues facing academic institutions. Centered around a university other academic institution and contain items which are the scholarly output of that institution a collection of digital objects, in a variety of formats include works of various degrees of scholarly authority and from various stages in the. Richard poynder notes that 17 years on, institutional repositories irs are still halfempty of their target content. It formulates a solution about the functionalities and automatic modules such an ir should have and standars it should use. Institutional repositories, libraries and the academy by marilyn s. Showcase and preserve scholarly output and historic documents 6.
Responsiveness to local user needs and preferences 4. The acquisition is the third such purchase in the last 14 months for elsevier, which recently acquired social science and humanities repository ssrn and the research metrics company plum analytics. College and university archives and special collections in an era of change elizabeth yakel, soo young rieh, beth st. Rumsey, sally 2006 the purpose of institutional repositories in uk higher education.
As we get content from a wide variety of sources, we may have more than one record for a given citation. Beyond institutional repositories by laurent romary, chris. An institutional repository is a database with a set of services to capture, store, index, preserve and redistribute a universitys scholarly research in digital formats. The sparc organization defines institutional repositories as follows. Patrick obrien, kenning arlitsch, leila sterman, jeff mixter, jonathan wheeler, and susan borda. An institutional repository is an archive for collecting, preserving, and disseminating digital copies of the intellectual output of an institution, particularly a research institution an institutional repository can be viewed as a set of services that a university offers to members of its community for the management and dissemination of digital materials created by the. Webometrics ranking of institutional digital repositories.
The discussion on institutional repositories is wide ranging. The institution libraries combine, on one hand, involvement in the creation of knowledge. New imaging technologies are yielding insights into the realms of cancer and disease pathology, and research funding is growing rapidly for imaging projects. The central discovery index cdi content comes from a variety of sources, including publishers, content aggregators, openaccess repositories, institutional repositories, and more. Most sources have been published between 2000 and the present.
International journal of information management, 26 3. By controlling bepresss substantial portfolio of institutional repositories, and integrating it with elseviers content platforms and workflow suite, there is a substantial opportunity to integrate a massive set of preprints, and analytics about their impact, with the published versions. Thus, institutional repositories complement existing metrics for gauging institutional productivity and prestige. At institutions where the majority of ir deposits are pdfs, an out. Oct 03, 2008 institutional repositories institutional repositories are. Where this increased visibility reflects a high quality of scholarship, this demonstration of value can translate into tangible benefits, including the fundingfrom both public and private sourcesthat derives in part from an. A librarians process for building an institutional repository. The example shown in the figure below assumes you are merging binary rpd repositories, but you can also perform this type of merge with mds xml repositories. Steven harnad 1997 demonstrate to stakeholders how it will. If the publishing arguments are put to one side, there is a separate and strong case for developing an ir which is justified by a librarys functions of collecting, managing and. For many colleges and universities, existing state or regional institutional or library consortia will provide a logical infrastructure for implementing institutional repositories via. Oct 10, 2016 richard poynder notes that 17 years on, institutional repositories irs are still halfempty of their target content. Presently, discussions are taking place on how to use, combine, and register. This guide provides information and resources about institutional repositories and wits institutional repository on dspace wiredspace.
While there are endpurpose, system, and some software based similarities. Aug 02, 2017 by controlling bepresss substantial portfolio of institutional repositories, and integrating it with elseviers content platforms and workflow suite, there is a substantial opportunity to integrate a massive set of preprints, and analytics about their impact, with the published versions. Africa has not done poorly in this area with a steady increase. The administration tool provides a threeway merge feature that lets you merge two repositories that have both been. View institutional repositories research papers on academia. However, there are other drivers which prompt he institutions to spend staff time and investment on developing irs. Improving the reported use and impact of institutional.
Institutional repositories and the open access movement will affect the publishing business. You can merge repositories in binary rpd format, or mds xml format. The last kind to be mentioned are enveloped items such as pdf files, a continuing. For many colleges and universities, existing state or regional institutional or library consortia will provide a logical infrastructure for implementing institutional repositories via collective development. It is intended to be used as a selfevaluation tool by ir managers allowing. Perspectives on repositories too few initiatives include all the stakeholdersoclc environmental scan 2003 institutional repositories represent the logical convergence raym crow 2002 fundamental component in the battle to control scholarly publishing.
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