Institutional Repositories

EDUCAUSE Library Items for Institutional Repositories

Connecting College Faculty to Open Content Repositories: Challenges and Opportunities

September 14, 2011 | 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…

The Remixed University

October 19, 2011 | 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…

Exposing and Managing Institutional Media Assets

January 14, 2010 | A session at the EDUCAUSE Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference 2010

Almost any corporation or higher education institution possesses a wealth of rich media content that enhances their mission. How do these institutions most effectively administer and promote their …

Ithaka’s 2006 Studies of Key Stakeholders in the Digital Transformation in Higher Education

August 18, 2008

Ithaka's 2006 survey of faculty members sought to determine their attitudes related to online resources, electronic archiving, teaching and learning and related subjects.  This study afford…

Open Doors and Open Minds: What Faculty Authors Can Do to Ensure Open Access to Their Work Through Their Institution

April 24, 2008

Recently, on February 12, 2008, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) at Harvard University took a landmark step.  The faculty voted to adopt a policy requiring that faculty authors send an ele…

Seminar 2P - The Future of the Library PLEASE NOTE: Separate registration and fee are required to attend this seminar.

March 10, 2008 | A session at the NERCOMP Annual Conference 2008

Information and technology support organizations in higher education face a future of dramatic and constant change. Digital information creation and delivery is challenging what we know about learn…

Understanding Faculty to Improve Content Recruitment

January 17, 2005

"An institutional repository (IR) is an electronic system that captures, preserves, and provides access to the digital work products of a community . In a university setting, an IR may provi…

Institutional Repositories: Evaluating the Reasons for Non-use of Cornell University's Installation of DSpace

January 1, 2007

This article reports on a three-part evaluative study of institutional repositories. We describe the contents and participation in Cornell's DSpace and compare these results with seven univers…

Using the Audit Checklist for the Certification of a Trusted Digital Repository as a Framework for Evaluating Repository Software Applications: A Progress Report

January 1, 2006

Digital library initiatives have encouraged the development and implementation of repository software applications such as DSpace, Eprints, and Greenstone. These applications are being commonly dep…

Scholarly Reputations: Who’s Got Buzz?

January 1, 2006

© 2006 Paul Kobulnicky EDUCAUSE Review, vol. 41, no. 6 (November/December 2006): 12–13. Scholarly Reputations: Who's Got Buzz? Paul Kobulnicky Paul Kobulnicky …