Institutional Repositories - 125 Resources

Overview
Publications (75)
Presentations (29)
Podcasts (16)
Blogs (5)

Overview

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, 2003.

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

A university-based institutional repository is 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. It is most essentially an organizational commitment to the stewardship of these digital materials, including long-term preservation where appropriate, as well as organization and access or distribution.

Publications (75)

EDUCAUSE publications address a diverse range of professional challenges in higher education IT, from updates on current developments to explorations of important overarching issues. Listed below are the full range of research, reports and other publications that EDUCAUSE and its members have written about Institutional Repositories.

Item ID	Title	Resource Category	Pub Date	Views
CSD5270	Pooling Scholars’ Digital Resources Andrew Guess Articles, Papers, and Reports	Community Recommendation	12/12/2007	149
CSD2626	The Research Library’s Role in Digital Repository Services Articles, Papers, and Reports	Community Recommendation	02/03/2009	177
CSD5258	Census of Institutional Repositories in the U.S Soo Y. Rieh, Karen Markey, Beth St. Jean, Elizabeth Yakel, and Jihyun Kim Articles, Papers, and Reports	Community Recommendation	12/05/2007	179
CSD5406	On the Threshold of Cyberscholarship Ronald L. Larsen Articles, Papers, and Reports	Community Recommendation	02/15/2008	189
CSD2625	Institutional Repository on a Shoestring George Wrenn, Carolyn J. Mueller, and Jeremy Shellhase Articles, Papers, and Reports	Community Recommendation	02/03/2009	195
CSD5259	Utah Digital Repository Initiative: Building a Support System for Institutional Repositories Karen Estlund and Anna Neatrour Articles, Papers, and Reports	Community Recommendation	12/05/2007	218
CSD5408	Institutional Repositories and E-Journal Archiving: What Are We Learning? Kathlin Smith Articles, Papers, and Reports	Community Recommendation	02/15/2008	226
CSD5542	Identifying Factors of Success in CIC Institutional Repository Development - Final Report Carole P. Palmer, Lauren Teffeau, and Mark Newton Articles, Papers, and Reports	Community Recommendation	08/21/2008	234
CSD5522	Using Personas to Understand the Needs and Goals of Institutional Repository Users Jack M. Maness, Tomasz Miaskiewicz, and Tamara Sumner Articles, Papers, and Reports	Community Recommendation	10/03/2008	252
CSD5385	Open Doors and Open Minds: What Faculty Authors Can Do to Ensure Open Access to Their Work Through Their Institution Articles, Papers, and Reports	Community Recommendation	04/24/2008	312
CSD5588	A Study of Institutional Repository Holdings by Academic Discipline Peter A. Zuber Articles, Papers, and Reports	Community Recommendation	12/12/2008	525
CSD5503	The UK Research Data Service Feasibility Study Articles, Papers, and Reports	Community Recommendation	07/07/2008	580
CSD5398	At Libraries, Taking the (Really) Long View Andrew Guess Articles, Papers, and Reports	Community Recommendation	07/23/2008	614
CSD5490	Ithaka’s 2006 Studies of Key Stakeholders in the Digital Transformation in Higher Education Ross Housewright and Roger C. Schonfeld Articles, Papers, and Reports	Community Recommendation	08/18/2008	649
CSD4702	The Acquisition of Open Access Research Articles Arthur H.J. Sale Articles, Papers, and Reports	Community Recommendation	01/01/2006	1,302
ERM08612	Repositories, Cyberinfrastructure, and the Humanities Gregory R. Crane Articles, Papers, and Reports	EDUCAUSE Review	10/23/2008	1,539
CSD4478	Taming the Digital Beast Andy Patrizio Articles, Papers, and Reports	Community Recommendation	01/01/2006	1,565
CSD4746	Considering a Marketing and Communications Approach for an Institutional Repository Heleen Gierveld Articles, Papers, and Reports	Community Recommendation	01/01/2006	1,597
CSD4976	Understanding Faculty to Improve Content Recruitment Nancy Fried Foster and Susan Gibbons Articles, Papers, and Reports	Community Recommendation	01/17/2005	1,623
CSD4909	Census of Institutional Repositories in the United States MIRACLE Project Research Findings Karen Markey, Soo Y. Rieh, Beth St. Jean, Jihyun Kim, Elizabeth Yakel Articles, Papers, and Reports	Community Contributions	01/01/2007	1,638
CSD4706	Repository Librarian and the Next Crusade: The Search for a Common Standard for Digital Repository Metadata Beth Goldsmith and Frances Knudson Articles, Papers, and Reports	Community Recommendation	01/01/2006	1,731
CSD4175	Digital Repositories: Helping Universities and Colleges JISC Articles, Papers, and Reports	Community Recommendation	01/01/2005	1,776
CSD4800	Report of the January 2007 ORE-TC Meeting Carl J. Lagoze, Herbert van de Sompel Articles, Papers, and Reports	Community Recommendation	01/01/2007	1,809
CSD3887	DARE Repositories Programs and Projects	Community Recommendation	01/01/2005	1,833
CSD4922	Institutional Repositories: Evaluating the Reasons for Non-use of Cornell University's Installation of DSpace Philip Davis, Matthew J. Connolly Articles, Papers, and Reports	Community Recommendation	01/01/2007	1,839

Presentations (29)

Stepping away from the distractions of normal routine to meet with peers, share experiences, and learn together can be invaluable. EDUCAUSE places great emphasis on the face-to-face meeting experience, offering you numerous opportunities throughout the year to gather with colleagues - from small regional events and special topic meetings to large, national conferences covering the full spectrum of roles and issues important to higher education. For more information on EDUCAUSE conferences and seminars, please see our Frequently Asked Questions page. Listed below is the full range of presentations EDUCAUSE and its members tagged with Institutional Repositories

Item ID	Title	Resource Category	Pub Date	Views
SERC09_173075	Institutional Repositories as Sustainable Infrastructure Supporting E-Scholarship Presentations and Seminars	Southeast Regional	06/02/2009	52
NMD08012	Cyberinfrastructure and Emerging Scientific Data and Knowledge Systems Don Middleton Presentations/Speeches	Net@EDU (State Networks)	02/10/2008	432
EDU07300	An Initiative to Share Digital Repository Services for Liberal Arts Colleges Eric Jansson, Diane J. Graves, and Samuel Demas Presentations/Speeches	EDUCAUSE Annual	10/23/2007	590
NCP08058	The Future of the Library Susan V. Wawrzaszek, David G. Wedaman, Amira Aaron, Lori Dembowitz, and John Turner Presentations/Speeches	NERCOMP	03/10/2008	594
NCP08039	Electronic Project Reports: Making Undergraduate Work Accessible Worldwide Christine Drew and Debra Dexter Presentations/Speeches	NERCOMP	03/10/2008	1,027
EDU06304	The Real At-Risk E-Content: University Web Resources Joanne Kaczmarek and Taylor Surface Presentations/Speeches	EDUCAUSE Annual	10/12/2006	1,855
EDU06219	Building a Distributed Knowledge Network: National and International Perspectives Toru Iiyoshi Presentations/Speeches	EDUCAUSE Annual	10/10/2006	1,858
CSD4269	Managing Digital Assets Strategic Issues for Research Libraries - Proceedings Various Authors Presentations/Speeches	Community Recommendation	01/01/2005	1,913
MAC0663	A Successful Implementation of an Institutional Repository at the University of Delaware Sandra K. Millard and Gregg A. Silvis Presentations/Speeches	Mid-Atlantic Regional	01/12/2006	2,036
EDU06276	LionShare: Secure P2P Collaboration for Academic Networks Michael Halm Presentations/Speeches	EDUCAUSE Annual	10/11/2006	2,097
CSD3285	Repository Management and Implementation Lorna M. Campbell, Kerry Blinco and Jon Mason Presentations and Seminars	Community Contributions	01/01/2004	2,262
EDU05186	Strategies for Building Successful Digital Initiatives at Small to Medium-Sized Institutions Gregory R. Crane, Rachel Frick, and Andrew Rouner Presentations/Speeches	EDUCAUSE Annual	10/20/2005	2,380
SWR0528	Implementing a Fedora-Based Repository on a Shoestring Eric Jansson Presentations/Speeches	Southwest Regional	02/16/2005	2,615
EDU05253	Collaborative Library Instruction Repository Jennifer Keach and Jennifer McCabe Presentations/Speeches	EDUCAUSE Annual	10/21/2005	2,617
MWR0536	Moving Out of the Shadows: Shining a Light on Data David L. Rotman and Mark Mazelin Presentations/Speeches	Midwest Regional	03/21/2005	2,683
MWR0532	From Curriculum Vitae To Academic Business Intelligence: Building an Intellectual Capital Repository Scott Garrison Presentations/Speeches	Midwest Regional	03/21/2005	2,861
EDU05033	The Data Deluge Hits Campus Clifford A. Lynch Presentations/Speeches	EDUCAUSE Annual	10/20/2005	2,889
SER0544	Training the University Community for Self-Archiving in Institutional Repositories Melanie Feltner-Reichert, Cindy Gray and Thura R. Mack Presentations/Speeches	Southeast Regional	06/06/2005	3,017
CSD3364	alt-i-lab 2004:Advancing Learning Technology Interoperability Various Authors Presentations/Speeches	Community Recommendation	01/01/2004	3,029
CSD3368	The Future of Scholarship in the Digital Age Various Authors Presentations/Speeches	Community Recommendation	01/01/2004	3,086
EDU0437	The New Frontier of Institutional Repositories: Three Libraries, Three Plans, One Goal Robert H. McDonald, Anthony D. Smith, Charles F. Thomas and Tyler Walters Presentations/Speeches	EDUCAUSE Annual	10/20/2004	3,137
CSD3182	Thinking Beyond Digital Libraries - Designing the Information Strategy for the Next Decade Various Authors Presentations/Speeches	Community Recommendation	01/01/2004	3,196
EDU0428	Surveying the Digital Landscape Charles R. Bartel, Emilio DiLorenzo, James M. Duncan, Leslie P. Hitch, S. Alan McCord, John C. Meerts, Pablo G. Molina and Michael D. Roy Presentations/Speeches	EDUCAUSE Annual	10/20/2004	3,425
SWR0412	Scholarly Communication in a Digital World: The Role of an Institutional Repository Richard Fyffe and Beth Forrest Warner Presentations/Speeches	Southwest Regional	01/01/2004	4,182
EDU0385	Early Development Experiences from the Fedora Project David J. Kahle, William Parod and Thornton Staples Presentations/Speeches	EDUCAUSE Annual	01/01/2003	4,352

Podcasts (16)

Name	Views	Post date
E2005 Podcast: Collaborating on Digital Collections Play \| Show Notes \| Download (24.83 MB audio/mpeg)	3,115	03/06/2006
E2005 Podcast: Strategies for Building Successful Digital Initiatives Play \| Show Notes \| Download (24.46 MB audio/mpeg)	3,397	03/07/2006
E2005 Podcast: The Data Deluge Hits Campus Play \| Show Notes \| Download (24.32 MB audio/mpeg)	3,497	01/27/2006
E2005 Podcast: Collaborative Library Instruction Repository Play \| Show Notes \| Download (21.79 MB audio/mpeg)	3,851	03/09/2006
EDUCAUSE2006 Podcast: Content Recruitment and Development Play \| Show Notes \| Download (28.65 MB audio/mpeg)	4,095	04/22/2007
An Interview with Bas Cordewener Play \| Show Notes \| Download (9.02 MB audio/mpeg)	4,357	12/18/2006
An Interview with Sorel Reisman Play \| Show Notes \| Download (13.07 MB audio/mpeg)	4,620	11/03/2006
An Interview with Christopher Blackall Play \| Show Notes \| Download (13.62 MB audio/mpeg)	4,679	12/18/2006
An Interview with Terri Bays Play \| Show Notes \| Download (13.23 MB audio/mpeg)	4,826	10/26/2006
An Interview with the University of Minnesota's Eric Celeste Play \| Show Notes \| Download (16.37 MB audio/mpeg)	4,887	04/20/2006
An Interview with Marc van den Berg Play \| Show Notes \| Download (18.71 MB audio/mp3)	5,102	11/02/2005
An Interview with University of Texas at Austin's Fred Heath Play \| Show Notes \| Download (13.5 MB audio/mpeg)	5,132	04/21/2006
An Interview with ArtStor's James Shulman Play \| Show Notes \| Download (20.19 MB audio/mpeg)	5,916	12/13/2005
An Interview with Herbert van de Sompel Play \| Show Notes \| Download (13.98 MB audio/mpeg)	5,979	12/18/2006
An Interview with Johns Hopkins University's Sayeed Choudhury Play \| Show Notes \| Download (24.99 MB audio/mpeg)	6,399	01/06/2006
An Interview with the University of Rochester's Susan Gibbons Play \| Show Notes \| Download (29.48 MB audio/mpeg)	7,764	12/19/2005

Blogs (5)

EDUCAUSE hosts a number of blogs for its members. To view a list of all our blogs, click here.

Title	Blogger	Posted	Views
A Role for Librarians in Curating Scientific Data - A Very Short Reading List	Michael Witt, Purdue University	10/24/2007	1,352
ARL Institutional Repositories SPEC Kit	Charles W. Bailey, Jr., University of Houston	08/22/2006	2,181
Fedora 2.0 (the repository not the Linux distro) is out	Matt Pasiewicz, EDUCAUSE	03/01/2005	3,760
Google Base	Robert H. McDonald, Indiana University	11/17/2005	3,985
Podcast on "Universal Access to All Knowledge"	Matt Pasiewicz, EDUCAUSE	03/20/2005	4,389

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