1. Digital Repositories (Marilyn Billings)
UMass Amherst perspective and attempts to get faculty buy-in
Sabbatical study
Site visits
Results
Next Steps – How to Proceed?
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2. Research Library Council
Education about sabbatical and changes in scholarly communication
Faculty survey
Results of survey
Text, journals, etc
Decision time
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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
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4. 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
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5. 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

6. 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
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7. 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
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8. 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
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9. Digital Repositories – Quick Demo
Amherst – example of a Digital Commons repository provided by Berkeley Electronic Press
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16. Digital Repository Resources
EDUCAUSE Resource Center on IRs
Establishing an Institutional Repository by Susan Gibbons.
OpenDOAR
SPARC Repository Resources
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