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A law firm associate has prepared a continuing legal education PowerPoint presentation that resides on the hard drive of the associate's laptop. Another associate has...
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Institutional repositories (IRs) have been developed and promoted primarily as a means to re-publish scholarly content previously published elsewhere—usually in journals, festschriften, or collections of...
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DigitalCommons@ILR is a multipurpose institutional repository (IR) for scholarship produced by faculty at the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University. Unlike most...
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Problem: While there has been considerable attention dedicated to the development and implementation of institutional repositories, there has been little done to evaluate them, especially...
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Technology increasingly drives the evolving nature of the library's role in managing faculty publications. Libraries not only create physical archives of faculty scholarship, but take...
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This article summarizes findings from a study of author/depositor distribution patterns within scholarly digital repositories. At the moment, evaluative frameworks are in short supply for...
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Purpose - The purpose of this article is to outline the experiences of an Australian university in selecting a proprietary solution for its open access...
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The institutional repository (hereafter IR) at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln (hereafter UNL) began operations July 1, 2005. At the close of our first year we...
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This Essay was written as part of a Symposium on open access publishing for legal scholarship, held at Lewis & Clark Law School. It makes...
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The conventional model of scholarly publishing uses the copyright system as a lever to induce commercial publishers and printers to disseminate the results of...
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This article explores the contradictory and redundant economic aspects of the current scholarly publishing situation with a focus on the viability of an open-access model...
Books
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The Institutional Repository (IR) is understood as an information system that collects, preserves, disseminates and provides access to the intellectual and academic output of the...
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SPEC Kit 292 Institutional Repositories, Charles W. Bailey, Karen Coombs, Jill Emery, Anne Mitchell, Chris Morris, Spencer Simons, and Robert Wright (2006)
The Institutional Repositories SPEC Kit is now available [1] from the Association of Research Libraries (ARL [2]). This document presents the results of a thirty-eight-question...
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BOWLING GREEN, KY (2007-09-21) Advances in technology are leading to important changes in libraries across the country--and WKU is a case in point. A new...
Unpublished Papers
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The concept of the institutional repository (IR) is too narrowly focused to develop the value that universities should be extracting from its existence. Is it...
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An institutional repository [IR] is a means to collect the intellectual digital output of an organization. This white paper discusses creating a business case for...
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Despite a proliferation of institutional repositories being established in recent years, and the significant financial and staffing resources invested in them, many have not fulfilled...
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Open access to scholarship, that is, making scholarship freely available to the public via the Internet without subscription or access fees, is a natural fit...
Presentations
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There is little agreement on which factors lead to successful institutional repositories. Researchers primarily cite content recruitment and services as key factors; however, there has...
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Open Source or Off-the-Shelf? Establishing an institutional repository for a small institution, Mark Sutherland and Peta Hopkins, Paper presented at the Information Online 2007 13th Exhibition and Conference, Sydney, 30th January – 1st February 2007. Australian Library and Information Association. (2007)
Effective management of digital assets as well as increasing research exposure and impact are particular challenges faced by smaller institutions with limited infrastructure and resources....
Press Releases and Reports
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Berkeley, CA – August 10, 2007 - ProQuest and The Berkeley Electronic Press ("bepress") today announced that they have reached an agreement for bepress to...
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The Berkeley Electronic Press (bepress) announced today that it would begin selling its Institutional Repository platform directly. The bepress Institutional Repository platform currently powers the...
