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Institutional Repositories

Institutional Repositories. Presentation to the GT Faculty Executive Board 22 October 2002. What Authors Want. Scholars publish: To communicate with peers For prestige For career advancement Not (directly) for money.

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Institutional Repositories

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  1. Institutional Repositories Presentation to the GT Faculty Executive Board 22 October 2002

  2. What Authors Want • Scholars publish: • To communicate with peers • For prestige • For career advancement • Not (directly) for money Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers. What Authors Want. Worthington, West Sussex, England: ALPSP, 1999.

  3. Why Were ScientificJournals Created? • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London in 1665 • Established a public registry of intellectual property • Provided the means to establish innovative claims in an orderly way • Provided the means to tame and police ownership of intellectual property Jean-Claude Guedon. In Oldenburg’s Long Shadow. Wash., DC: ARL, 2001

  4. Functions of the Publishing Process • Registration: establishes IP • Certification: certifies quality and validity • Awareness: ensures dissemination and accessibility • Archiving: preserves intellectual heritage Ryam Crow. A Case for Institutional Repositories: A SPARC Position Paper. Wash., DC: ARL, 2002

  5. Failure of the Print Paradigm • Diffuses institutional intellectual property through thousands of journals • Holds faculty indirectly and institutions directly hostage to publisher monopolies • Limits the range of media available to present imagery, data and user manipulability

  6. Results of a Shift to Digital Form of the Scholarly Journal • Faster communication • Lower cost of distribution • De-coupling of the registration, certification, awareness and archiving • Potential to elevate institutional brand • Potential for peer review of learning objects • Multi-media augmentation available

  7. National Trends • Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) • Open Archives Initiative • Metadata standards and harvesting portal implementations • ARL collective of digital repositories • MERLOT, SMETE, other initiatives

  8. Why the Library • Center of expertise on metadata • Database maintenance and migration expertise • Demonstration projects with multimedia online • Complementariety of repository and licensed digital collections

  9. Components of GT Universe • ETD’s task force • Sponsored research task force • Server integrity and security being upgraded • Request to archive learning objects • New positions: • Associate Director • Digital Initiatives Manager

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