1. Implementing an Institutional Repository: Part IV 16 th North Carolina Serials Conference March 29, 2007 Policy Issues

2. Document and publicize policies

3. Policy issues  Division of responsibilities and clarification of roles

4. Division of responsibilities and clarification of roles  Roles within the hosting institution  Target group and users can help with:  Identifying and submitting content  Verifying copyright  Serving as advisers  Letting you know of service problems

5. UO’s Steering Committee

6. Policy issues DDivision of responsibilities and clarification of roles SStructure, definition, name of the archive

7. Structure of the archive  Depends on software and technical support  Communities, collections, titles, files  Author or mediated submissions  Need for local modifications to software  Depends on your vision and resources  Target group(s)  Type of content  Staffing

8. Structure: software implications

10.  Communities  Sub-communities  Collections  Titles  Files

11. Structure: software implications

15. Definition of the repository: UO  Somehow affiliated with institution  Cumulative and perpetual  Open access  Interoperable  Academic content, or in support of the academic mission

16. The name  Scholars’ Bank  KU ScholarWorks  DLearn  QSpace  Papyrus  DSpace@…  eScholarship

17. Policy issues DDivision of responsibilities and clarification of roles SStructure, definition, and name of the archive DDefinition of communities, collections, and users

18. General guidelines

19. Definition of communities, collections, and users  Definition of community  Limits on the number and type of collections?  Different rules for different groups?  Commercial use permitted or not?

20. Establishment of communities

21. Sample community Academic department

22. Sample community Academic program

23. Sample community Administrative department

24. Sample community Student community

25. Sample sub-community Faculty communities

26. Sample sub-community The library example

27. Sample sub-community

28. Limits on the number or type of collections  Will you limit?  Who makes the decision?  What are the determining factors?  How will you accomplish it?

29. Types of collections  Informational  Administrative  Primary resources for research or study  From the faculty  From students  Groups only or individuals also  Born digital or digitized

30. Collection guidelines

31. Informational collection Campus newsletter

32. Administrative collection Campus planning documents

33. Primary resources Statistical data sets

34. Primary resources Images

35. Society publication Scholarly journal

36. Academic collection Working papers

37. Faculty collection (individual) Personal collection of a professor

38. Sample sub-community Faculty communities

39. Student collection Papers for an honors class

40. Student collection Theses and dissertations

41. Different rules for different groups  One set of rules and services for students  Another set of rules and services for faculty  Institutional users vs. external users

42. Services for different users

43. Commercial use

44. Policy issues DDivision of responsibilities and clarification of roles SStructure, definition, and name of the archive DDefinition of communities, collections, and users CControl of content

45. Control of content  Who sets the standards for the content?  What type of material is acceptable?  Who owns the content once deposited?  Will you restrict access to any content?

46. Type of content accepted

49. What happens when someone leaves?

50. Restricted access

51. Policy issues DDivision of responsibilities and clarification of roles SStructure, definition, and name of the archive DDefinition of communities, collections, and users CControl of content SSubmission and withdrawal

52. Submission and withdrawal  Mediated submission  Author self-submission  Review of submissions  Replacement of files  Withdrawal

53. Policies for submission and withdrawal

54. Policies for submission and withdrawal: UO example  Every community determines the specific submission policies for its collections  Someone will revise new submissions to make sure the content is appropriate  Authors may submit their own work or ask for assistance

55. Policies for submission and withdrawal: UO example  Someone from library always reviews first few submissions  Library reserves the right to remove content  Library reserves the right to change its guidelines

56. Mediated submissions: Challenges

57. Capturing hyper links

58. Broken or erroneous links

59. Revision or replacement of files  Will you permit the replacement or revision of files?  If so, in what circumstances?

60. Revision of submissions

61. Example of a new version

62. Withdrawal of content  Will you withdraw submissions to your IR?  If so, in what cases?  Will you leave any markers or placeholders for that missing content?

63. Example of a withdrawal

64. Policy issues DDivision of responsibilities and clarification of roles SStructure, definition, and name of the archive DDefinition of communities, collections, and users CControl of content SSubmission and withdrawal MMetadata standards

65. Metadata standards  Based in Dublin Core or some other standard  Determined by software limitations  Mediated versus self-submission  Controlled vocabulary issues  Whatever is necessary to find, organize, and display the files appropriately  It’s not cataloging!

66. Authors

67. Description

68. Appropriate level of metadata

69. Logical and useful presentation

70. Numbering

72. Numbering: Dissociation

74. Policy issues DDivision of responsibilities and clarification of roles SStructure, definition, and name of the archive DDefinition of communities, collections, and users CControl of content SSubmission and withdrawal MMetadata standards IInstitutional commitment

75. Institutional commitment  Permanence of the archive  How to guarantee the integrity of the files  How to guarantee the stability of the archive

76. Policy issues DDivision of responsibilities and clarification of roles SStructure, definition, and name of the archive DDefinition of communities, collections, and users CControl of content SSubmission and withdrawal MMetadata standards IInstitutional commitment CCopyright, permission, and access

77. Copyright, permission, and access  Do authors have the right to post?  Will putting it in IR affect later publication?  Are authors turning over copyright to IR?  Who gets to use content in the IR?  What guarantees are there against plagiarism?

78. Copyright and permission

80. Policy issues DDivision of responsibilities and clarification of roles SStructure, definition, and name of the archive DDefinition of communities, collections, and users CControl of content SSubmission and withdrawal MMetadata standards IInstitutional commitment CCopyright, permission, and access GGoing it alone or multi-institutional

81. Multi-institutional archive