Carpe Diem: Establish an Institutional Repository for Your Organization

Carol A. Watson, University of Georgia

Abstract

An institutional repository can boost the prominence of your institution and optimize dissemination of your institution's publications to a worldwide audience. An institutional repository can also promote open access to publications and scholarship. Finally, the scope of the repository is not limited to text format. Research and publications that have been created in various digital formats can be included in the repository. Open source and commercial applications are available as institutional repository project solutions. As archival specialists, librarians are uniquely poised to communicate the value of institutional repositories to their organizations as well as to provide a leadership role in establishing a repository.