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Institutional repositories first gained attention in 2002, when universities began offering in-house services to manage and disseminate their digital materials. These repositories evolved in response to faculty needs, changes in electronic scholarly publishing, and the affordability of digital preservation. No single blueprint for an institutional repository exists—they range from MIT’s DSpace to the Caltech Collection of Open Digital Archives (CODA).
EDUCAUSE has identified links concerning the institutional repositories that may be useful to the higher education community. Many of these links have been contributed by EDUCAUSE members. If you would like to include additional resources on this page, send the information to contribute@educause.edu.
Articles and Papers
The Case for Institutional Repositories: A SPARC Position Paper Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, 2002. This paper examines institutional repositories strategically, from two complementary perspectives: 1) as a natural extension of academic institutions' responsibility as generators of primary research seeking to preserve and leverage their constituents' intellectual assets; and 2) as one potentially major component in the evolving structure of scholarly communication.
Filling Institutional Repositories: Practical strategies from the DAEDALUS Project Ariadne, 2004. The author describes some strategies that can be used to help populate an institutional repository.
Institutional Repositories: Enhancing Teaching, Learning, and Research /ir/library/pdf/DEC0303.pdf EDUCAUSE Evolving Technologies Committee, 2003.
Institutional Repositories: Essential Infrastructure for Scholarship in the Digital Age ARL Bimonthly Report, February 2003. The author provides an overview of institutional repositories, discusses their strategic importance, examines key issues, considers how they may promote infrastructure standards, and speculates on possible future developments.
Projects and Guides
CARL Institutional Repository Project: Online Resource Portal
A Guide to Institutional Repository Software, 2004.
SPARC Institutional Repository Checklist and Resource Guide, 2002.
Repositories
California Institute of Technology - Caltech CODA
MIT - DSpace
Ohio State University - Knowledge Bank
University of California - eScholarship Repository
University of Kansas - KU ScholarWorks
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Library Items on this Topic
EDUCAUSE Library Items for Institutional Repositories
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Institutional Repositories
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Institutional Repositories True Institutional repositorie…
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Podcast: The Digital Preservation Network
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November 24, 2012
Speaker: James L. Hilton, Vice President and Chief Information Officer, University of Virginia This session will address the progress occurring in launching the Digital Preservation Networ…
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Fair Use in Academic and Research Libraries
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March 21, 2012
Patricia Aufderheide is University Professor and the founder-director of the Center for Social Media in the School of Communication at American University in Washington, D.C. She is the …
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Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Academic and Research Libraries
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February 1, 2012
This guide was published by the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) as a clear and easy-to-use statement of fair and reasonable approaches to fair use developed by and for librarians who sup…
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Making Metadata: Students and Scholars Enriching Digital Collections
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March 14, 2012
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A session at the NERCOMP Annual Conference 2012
Brown faculty and students are working with library staff (metadata specialists and digital humanities staff) to make detailed page- and image-level metadata for books in digitized special collecti…
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Open Access at Bucknell
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March 13, 2012
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A session at the NERCOMP Annual Conference 2012
In October 2011, after several years of dedicated outreach and education efforts, Bucknell University's full faculty (approximately 325 members) passed an open access policy, closely following…
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Connecting College Faculty to Open Content Repositories: Challenges and Opportunities
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September 14, 2011
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A session at the ELI 2011 Online Fall Focus Session
This presentation will describe the Open Course Library, an ongoing project to redesign Washington's 81 highest-enrolling college courses as open educational resources. During this multiyear…
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The Remixed University
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October 19, 2011
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A session at the EDUCAUSE 2011 Annual Conference
Open educational resources can be central to how universities pursue their mission of education and research through infrastructure. Initiatives like open courseware and open institutional reposito…
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Designing and Implementing Second Generation Digital Preservation Services: A Scalable Model for the Stanford Digital Repository
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September 13, 2010
This paper describes the Stanford Digital Repository (SDR), a large scale, digital preservation system for scholarly materials. It examines the lessons-learned through over five years of developm…
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Open Doors and Open Minds: What Faculty Authors Can Do to Ensure Open Access to Their Work Through Their Institution
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April 17, 2008
This White Paper, written by Thinh Nguyen, is addressed to the faculty and administrators of academic institutions who support equitable access to scholarly research and knowledge, and who believ…
