Institutional Repositories Who Cares?
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Institutional Repositories
Tools for scholarship
Mary Westell
University of Calgary
AMTEC Conference
May 26, 2005
What is an Institutional Repository?
“An institutional repository (IR) is a digital
collection of a university's intellectual output.
Institutional repositories centralize, preserve,
and make accessible the knowledge generated
by academic institutions. They also form part of
a larger global system of repositories, which are
indexed in a standardized way and searchable
using one interface, providing the foundation for
a new model of scholarly publishing." (Canadian
Association of Research Libraries)
What are the benefits?
Stewardship of university research
Response to changing practices in
scholarly communication
Fostering open access to the university’s
scholarly output
Raising the institution’s research profile
Emphasis is on “born digital” materials
Easy web-based population, updating
Benefits to the University
Mechanism to conform with granting
agency requirements
Evidence of scholarly productivity
Evidence of scholarly excellence
Promotion of research strengths
Facilitates interdisciplinarity
A personal digital repository
“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”
(Clifford Lynch, ARL Bimonthly Report, 226)
Benefits for faculty:
An infrastructure is available for you to
archive and provide wide access to your
research and publications
You can control the ‘community’ and
‘collection’ and self-archive
Tools are available to work collaboratively
with your research group
It is a showcase for your work
Benefits for faculty
Your born digital materials are archived –
safekeeping
The process is already worked out – saves
time and training for graduate students
and research partners
No more maintaining a server!
No more broken links!
Scholars note ‘decay’ of citations to online
references
“After analyzing more than 1,126
[footnotes that cite Web materials]
citations, taken from online versions of five
prestigious communication-studies
journals, they found that 373 of the links or
33 percent, were dead. Of the 753 links
that worked, only 424 pointed to
information pertinent to the citation.”
Carlson, Scott. Chronicle of Higher Education: Today’s news, March 14, 2005
Faculty centric model:
“The findings of our work-practice study
suggest that with a faculty-centric
approach to the design and marketing of
repositories, IRs could become a
compelling and useful tool.”
Foster, Nancy Fried and Susan Gibbons “Understanding faculty to improve content
recruitment for institutional repositories” D-Lib Magazine 11 (1) January, 2005
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january05/foster/01foster.html
[email protected]
Captures
Digital research material in any format
Directly from faculty or their designate
Large-scale, stable, managed long-term storage
Describes
Descriptive, technical, rights metadata
Persistent identifiers
Distributes
Via WWW, with necessary access control
Preserves
Many approved digital formats
Adapted from: Powerpoint Presentation, UTL Staff - April 22, 2003
[email protected] captures - Articles
Preprints
Conference Papers
Data Sets
Learning Objects
Working Papers
Technical Reports
Presentations
Images
Sound
Adapted from: Powerpoint Presentation, UTL Staff - April 22, 2003
[email protected] describes - Descriptive metadata
Forms based
Standards – Dublin Core
Structural metadata
For complex (multi page items)
Automatic text searching
Rights metadata
Embedded rights information
Persistent ID
Persistent location
[email protected] distributes - Via secure web server
Access control
Persistent identifiers
Expose to Web search engines
Document(s) appears in database via:
Searchable “tiered” database
Community portal
Author and title listing
Email notices for new items
Adapted from: Powerpoint Presentation, UTL Staff - April 22, 2003
[email protected] preserves -Files are preserved in original format
Files are migrated as appropriate
Support Levels vary with file format (MIT):
Supported: full support
Known: recognize, but cannot guarantee full
support
Unsupported: cannot recognize a format; these
will be listed as "application/octet-stream"
Adapted from: Powerpoint Presentation, UTL Staff - April 22, 2003
Copyright and licensing
Standard license agreement
http://www.ucalgary.ca/library/dspace/license.html
Creative commons license
http://creativecommons.org/worldwide/ca/
DSpace Demonstration:
About DSpace:
http://www.ucalgary.ca/library/dspace
Searching the repository:
http://Dspace.ucalgary.ca
Canadian Association of Research
Libraries IR Project
Implement repositories based on a variety
of content and software
Research innovation in scholarly
publishing
Sharing best practices and lessons
learned
CARL Research
Issues in populating the Institutional
Repository
Cross-repository searching
Integration with library and digital
resources
Integration with course management
software
Integration into the research culture
Specific interests for AMTEC?
“Powering up new learning communities”
Learning Objects
Multi-format approach
Sustainability of digital objects
Access -vs- access control
Scholarly journal publication
Conference Proceedings
More information?
Check with your university library