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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

 

Updated September 2010

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