The Institutional Repository and the Institution’s Mission Tim Tamminga, VP Global Sales The Berkeley Electronic Press

IRs past and present Pressure building for change The IR aligned with the mission of the school: a strategic approach to selling the value of the IR to the Provost and Deans Scope of presentation

ROAR says there are 1288 registered IRs globally

Most IRs are planned and implemented by libraries. Most libraries create a working repository and then approach the rest of the school to participate. A metaphor showing how that should work… - Provided by Paul Royster, University of Lincoln

Paul’s fish slide

Yogi Berra (looking at the empty seats in Cleveland’s Municipal Stadium): “If people wanna stay away, nobody can make ‘em.” “Field of dreams” reality....

Approaching the IR differently We’re convinced that the most successful IRs must have long term, institution-wide investment from the very beginning. Active support at the Provost level. If the Provost supports the IR, then the Deans will support it. If the Deans support the IR, then faculty will. And libraries are starting to get this support…

Growing pressure on university administration “UC faculty would like to see the university play a more active role in blunting the effect of the commercialization of academic publishing, but they will not and cannot risk their own academic lives to make it happen. The university must step in.” University of California Taskforce on University Publishing by Catherine Candee & Lynne Withey

Mandates: voluntary or mandatory

The recent “The University’s Role in the Dissemination of Research and Scholarship — A Call to Action” from Association of American Universities, Association of Research Libraries, The Coalition for Networked Information, National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges is directed at Provosts. … Reflecting its investments, the academy has a responsibility to ensure the broadest possible access to the fruits of its work both in the short and long term by publics both local and global.” Calls to action from influential organizations to Provosts and Deans

11 Excerpt from from Sona Andrews, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs at Boise State University: “I want to share with you this speech by David E. Shulenburger, Vice President for Academic Affairs at NASULGC. In it he calls for every university that produces research to have a distribution strategy… He urges universities to shift from a passive role in research distribution to an active one. He also urges provosts to "set in motion on their campuses the appropriate process to have this important matter thoroughly considered.” Research Distribution Matters: The Boise State University Strategy, by Marilyn Moody, Dean, University Library, Boise State University

Positioning the IR within this context

13 Boise State University Research Distribution Strategy Campus Wide Top-Level Initiative Provost and VP for Academic Affairs VP for Research Dean, Graduate College Dean, University Library

14 Why? Greater access to Boise State University research for students, researchers, Idaho citizens and the general public. More people reading and using research, more citations, higher prestige, more public value, greater leverage of funding.

Showcasing the institution’s scholarship Sharing research with its communities, both local and global Show examples of IRs providing those benefits

UPenn’s Penn Compact

Sharing its research with its communities, both local and global

In closing…

The IR allows the institution to examine and define itself “Socrates once said "an unexamined life is not worth living." Universities fail in this regard. Institutional repositories should be the means by which a university examines itself.” Quoted from a speech by Robert Koob, Provost and Vice- President of Academic Affairs, Cal Poly, Opening Remarks, Putting Knowledge to Work: Building an Institutional Repository for Your Campus, October 10 th, 2008

… why should a digital archive be initiated on your campus or why should faculty and staff care about making an existing digital archive more viable? Because the folks who pay your bills both need and want to know how your university is benefiting them. I suggest that a well-populated digital repository promoted as a resource to the citizens of a state can do much to increase the value, and hence the funding, of the university. David Shulenburger, Vice President for Academic Affairs, National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges (NASULGC), in the closing keynote of the SPARC meeting, November 2008.

Rick Clement, Dean of Libraries at Utah State University presents: Leveraging Institutional Repositories to Support Your Institution's Strategic Mission