It is intended to be used as a selfevaluation tool by ir managers allowing. A primary impact metric for institutional repositories ir is the number of file downloads, which are commonly measured through thirdparty web analytics software. A librarians process for building an institutional repository. Ccu digital commons is the institutional repository of coastal carolina university, a service of kimbel library, managed by librarians and library staff. As such, institutional repositories represent more institutional repositories. Implementing name authority control into institutional. Faq nova southeastern university institutional repository.
Implementing open access policies using institutional repositories ellen finnie duranceau and sue kriegsman i mplementing an open access oa policy off ers libraries an unusually high level of challenge. Institutional repositories as infrastructures for longterm. About institutional repositories ccu digital commons. In this sense important technological next steps for repositories, such as oaiore for handling complex digital objects, are hardly mentioned and would greatly complement the work. Heres a process you can customize for your library and institution. New imaging technologies are yielding insights into the realms of cancer and disease pathology, and research funding is growing rapidly for imaging projects. The institutional repositories grasp different kinds of publication such as theses, dissertations, research reports, journal articles etc. Institutional repositories, libraries and the academy by marilyn s. This means that all institutional repositories for primo central will be in summon as well.
Opendoar, a directory of open access repositories, lists 2,578 institutional repositories spread across 117 countries, as of february 2016 opendoar, 2014. Extending greenstone for institutional repositories. Faq nsuworks nova southeastern university institutional. Introduction to using xnat as an institutional repository. They benefit institutions by raising their profiles and scholars by bringing broader dissemination, increased use, and enhanced professional visibility of scholarly research. Showcase and preserve scholarly output and historic documents 6. Utilization of institutional repositories in nigerian universities scholastica c. Rationale for institutional repositories the rationale for universities and colleges implementing institutional repositories rests on two interrelated propositions. 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.
The aim was to identify the range of practices, policies, and operations in effect at institutions where decision makers are contemplating. In their 2016 paper, ayla stein, kelly applegate, and seth. The data related to the institutional repositories have been collected from opendoar and roar website. Pathfinder research on webbased repositories final report the institutional repository, an open webbased archive of scholarly material produced by the members of a defined institution, has come to the fore following the launch of dspace at mit at the end of 2002. 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. Through free and unrestricted online availability, they make it easier for researchers to disseminate and share research outputs and thus support the open access goal of scholarly communication. One of the types of knowledge management projects is to create knowledgeinstitutional repositories.
Disciplinary differences academic disciplines differ in their processes of research, publication, recognition and reward. Institutional repositories patrick obrien, kenning arlitsch, leila sterman, jeff mixter, jonathan wheeler, and susan borda this is a preprint of an article that will appear in the journal of library administration in october 2016. Open access repositories follow the open archives initiative protocol for metadata harvesting oaipmh which. Undercounting file downloads from institutional repositories. 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 were first developed as an online solution for collecting, preserving, and disseminating the scholarship of universities, colleges, and other research institutions. Institutional repositories canadian association of. About institutional repositories childrens mercy scholarly. An important chapter of the book is dedicated to aspects of curation, an increasingly important theme for. Usage of institutional repositories in zimbabwes public. Reimagining the role of institutional repository in open scholarship openaire and coar joint conference open access. It gives an overview of some major initiatives in name authority and outlines the staged approach taken by. They are often focused on preprints and rapid dissemination of research results, and were formed in several different sectors, generally the sciences, and sometimes funded by substantial grants. If you are a current summon client and would like to see your institutional repository available in primo central as well, please submit the request to export to primo central via the support portal available from the more sites menu above.
This study was carried out to ascertain the attitudes of academics concerning the utilization of institutional repositories irs in nigerian universities. Institutional repositories provide scholars with a common platform so that everyone in the institution can contribute scholarly material to promote crosscampus interdisciplinary research. Institutional repository an overview sciencedirect topics. 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. The sparc organization defines institutional repositories as follows. While some resources may be shared internally across departments and disciplines, most resources will be public and visible to everyone on the world wide web. 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. Institutional repositories research papers academia. It gives an overview of some major initiatives in name authority and outlines the staged approach taken by the unt libraries. Steven harnad 1997 demonstrate to stakeholders how it will. 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 repository quickly evolved into a platform for libraries to publish and showcase the entire breadth. Responsiveness to local user needs and preferences 4. 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. It collects, showcases, archives, and preserves a variety of intellectual output and publications authored by the aga khan university community.
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. Chris armbruster, who surveyed early policy implementers says that open access policy implementation is a tough job. Metadata documentation practices at arl institutional. Reengineering an institutional repository to engage users. The preferred version to upload to nsuworks is the publishers version pdf. In the literature, different disciplines are described as having differing attitudes to repositories and open access. Implementing name authority control into institutional repositories. Perceived values and benefits of institutional repositories. While some resources may be shared internally across departments and disciplines, most resources will be public and visible to. Institutional repositories centralize, preserve, and make accessible the knowledge generated by academic institutions. An important chapter of the book is dedicated to aspects of curation, an increasingly important theme for institutional repositories. Thus, institutional repositories complement existing metrics for gauging institutional productivity and prestige. About institutional repositories aku institutional. A selfevaluation tool for documenting best practices in institutional repositories version 1.
An institutional repository in latest concept for collecting, managing, preserving and disseminating scholarly works created in a digital form by staff and students in individual universities and colleges. The data is analyzed based on selected parameters, like type of ir, status of institutional repository, software used for repositories, total no of items, subject covered, languages and issues and barriers in self archiving approach of. Institutional repositories and the open access movement will affect the publishing business. Pathfinder research on webbased repositories final report. Institutional repositories as infrastructures for long. A search of opendoar, the directory of open access repositories, lists 298 academic repositories in. Imagingbased research is becoming increasingly important to research institutions. Published by clir in 2007 as census of institutional repositories in the united states, the study was the first to examine a broad group of institutions, rather than just those having operational irs. Movement to reality putting the pieces together acropolis museum, athens, greece may 21, 2014 leslie chan bioline international centre for critical development studies university of toronto scarborough. Digital preservation in the context of institutional repositories. Libraries have worked out published information and they provide it to their clients. The importance of institutional repositories institutional repositories are a new but important area within the educational landscape. A staged approach presentation this presentation discusses name authority for institutional repositories.
Even so, the availability of institutional repositories is unevenly distributed, with the majority located in north america, europe and japan chowdhury, 2014, p. Although institutional repositories have been used as a strategy to improve the access to traditional scholarly content such as eprints very often, their role in scholarly publishing has been discussed for a long time. A related emergent trend in academic libraries is the implementation of institutional repositories irs, digital collections that capture and preserve the intellectual output of university communities. Implementing open access policies using institutional. The development of an institutional repository redefines the production and dissemination of scholarly material within an academic community. 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 institution and its. Pdf a framework for institutional repository development. Digitizing dissertations for an institutional repository. Institutional repository based open access scholarly. This is the version most commonly used on institutional repositories. Nsu libraries will make every effort to obtain this version of the work in all instances where the publishers policies. 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. However, there are many challenges associated with their launch and upkeep. Reimagining the role of institutional repository in open.
View institutional repositories research papers on academia. Disciplinary repositories have been well established since the early 2000s. While there are endpurpose, system, and some software based similarities. Present study investigates the role of institutional repository as a scholarly publishing platform, and intends to propose an open access scholarly publishing model based on. This paper focuses on institutional repositories, but, for the sake of clarity, we distinguish among other types of repositories that exist. Digital preservation in the context of institutional. A librarians process for building an institutional repository library connect blueprint for success 2. 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. Academics attitudes toward the utilization of institutional. In any case, the institutional repository is a basic constituent of every knowledge management system. 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. 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.
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