Digital Repositories (Marilyn Billings) UMass Amherst perspective and attempts to get faculty buy-in Sabbatical study Site visits Results Next Steps – How to Proceed? November 14, 2007 Copyright retained by the authors 1

Research Library Council Education about sabbatical and changes in scholarly communication Faculty survey http://www.library.umass.edu/forms/insfacrepository.html Results of survey Text, journals, etc Decision time November 14, 2007 Copyright retained by the authors 2

Copyright retained by the authors Why do this? Proactive response to scholarly communication and open access issues Showcase for scholars and institution Ease of use by faculty and researchers Wide dissemination of intellectual output More frequent citations Long-term preservation, persistent urls Create places for author self-archiving of peer reviewed publications Capture, organize, provide free access to, and preserve the intellectual output of an academic institution Provides recognition and prestige Allows higher ed institutions to apply systematic leverage to accelerate changes taking place in scholarship and scholarly communication Support transformative new uses of digital media for scholarship November 14, 2007 Copyright retained by the authors 3

Who Would Manage the Repository? Library role as steward of scholarship Collection development expertise Liaison role with faculty Center of expertise on metadata Commitment to long-term preservation Complementarity of repository and licensed digital materials November 14, 2007 Copyright retained by the authors 4

Solution at last! Partnership between Research Library Council and University Libraries Research Library Council motion to approve pilot of IR based on survey University Library to fund one year pilot

Definitions that we used “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, Feb. 2003 “digital collections that capture and preserve the intellectual output of university communities” - Ryam Crowe, Case for Institutional Repositories, SPARC, ‘02 November 14, 2007 Copyright retained by the authors 6

What to Include - Based on Survey Research, Technical Papers Conference Material and other Gray Literature Teaching and Learning Materials Theses and Dissertations Digitized Collections Data Sets University Publications November 14, 2007 Copyright retained by the authors 7

Some Issues and Concerns Content Recruitment Copyright and Intellectual Property Tenure and Promotion Faculty and Institutional Awareness Long-term Preservation Staffing and Workflow Funding and Resources Model conflicts with faculty work practices and norms Faculty typically identify with their discipline rather than the institution Lack of Institutional mandates November 14, 2007 Copyright retained by the authors 8

Digital Repositories – Quick Demo ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst – example of a Digital Commons repository provided by Berkeley Electronic Press http://scholarworks.umass.edu November 14, 2007 Copyright retained by the authors 9

Digital Repository Resources EDUCAUSE Resource Center on IRs http://connect.educause.edu/term_view/Institutional%2BRepositories Establishing an Institutional Repository by Susan Gibbons. http://docushare.lib.rochester.edu/docushare/dsweb/View/Collection-2193 OpenDOAR http://www.opendoar.org/ SPARC Repository Resources http://www.arl.org/sparc/repositories November 14, 2007 Copyright retained by the authors 16