This paper presents a summary of reported studies on the Open Access citation advantage. There is a brief introduction to the main issues involved in...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

This Essay was written as part of a Symposium on open access publishing for legal scholarship, held at Lewis & Clark Law School. It makes...

The conventional model of scholarly publishing uses the copyright system as a lever to induce commercial publishers and printers to disseminate the results of scholarly...

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...

Traditional views of librarianship, and of academic libraries, have focused on the library’s role as a collector of external resources for student and faculty use....

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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....

Traditional views of librarianship, and of academic libraries, have focused on the library’s role as a collector of external resources for student and faculty use....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Purpose - The purpose of this article is to outline the experiences of an Australian university in selecting a proprietary solution for its open access...

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...

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...

Traditional views of librarianship, and of academic libraries, have focused on the library’s role as a collector of external resources for student and faculty use....

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...

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...

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...

Berkeley, CA – August 10, 2007 - ProQuest and The Berkeley Electronic Press ("bepress") today announced that they have reached an agreement for bepress to...

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...

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...

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...

Traditional views of librarianship, and of academic libraries, have focused on the library’s role as a collector of external resources for student and faculty use....