Session 1641 Challenges, Vision, and the Role of Academic Libraries in Building Institutional Repositories Sponsored by
Name: University of Arizona Campus Repository Service (aka UAiR) Service: DSpace, local system (UAiR), contentDM Hosting: BioMedCentral UAiR - local system OCLC Year started: Fall 2010 Reason started: Third time’s the charm Need to offer basic repository services, before offering expanded services (data curation services) Maliaca Oxnam
Mel DeSart University of Washington Name: ResearchWorks Service: Dspace based Hosting: Locally hosted Started: 2003 The repository was started primarily for OA reasons, but at least a tiny bit in part because “everybody else was doing it” We now look at the IR as only one part of a suite of services we can offer our user community
ResearchWorks at the University of Washington Dspace based Locally hosted Started in 2003 The repository was started primarily for OA reasons, but at least a tiny bit in part because “everybody else was doing it” We now look at the IR as only one part of a suite of services we can offer our user community.
Jay Bhatt Drexel Name: iDEA-Drexel E-Repository and Archives Service: DSpace Hosting: Local Year started: 2003 Reason started: Capture, preserve, and provide open access to the university’s scholarly output. Administered by the Drexel Libraries Nearly 3000 items, including 1000 theses and dissertations
iDEA: (Drexel E-Repository and Archives) - Introduction Rebecca Goldman Jay Bhatt Robert Sieczkiewicz
Knowledge Content Who in the institution creates knowledge? Students both undergraduate and graduate Faculty through research publications Examples: Posters from events such as the Annual Research Day Selected engineering design projects PhD theses and some Master’s theses
iDEA Organization - Engineering
Example: Conference Proceedings
Challenges Convincing faculty to assist with collection development Convincing administrators that it is worth the commitment of time and $ Working through restrictions imposed on published material Encouraging authors to negotiate for rights from publishers to make their work available in iDEA
Peter Zuber Brigham Young University Name: ScholarsArchive Service: DSpace initially, CONTENTdm currently Hosting: Local Year started: 2004 Reason started: (e.g. open access, because everybody else had one, etc.): Desired open access, wanted to see if faculty would respond Other basic points: –4478 holdings total, –huge plant and historical clothing collections, ( 25% and 60% respectively) –Other major article collection is engineering (34%)
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