In the wake of the historic NIH Green OA Self-Archiving Mandate in the
US, here are two well-informed current articles on university repository
policy. Highly recommended:
Swan, Alma & Carr, Les (2008) Institutions, their repositories and the Web.
Serials Review.
http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/14965/
ABSTRACT: It will soon be rare for research-based institutions not
to have a digital repository. The main reason for a repository is
to maximise the visibility of the institution?s research outputs
(provide Open Access), yet few contain a representative proportion
of the research produced by their institutions. Repositories form
one part of the institution?s web platform. An explicit, mandatory
policy on the use of the repository for collecting outputs is
needed in every institution so that the full research record is
collected. Once full, a repository is a tool that enables senior
management in research institutions to collate and assess research,
to market their institution, to facilitate new forms of scholarship
and to enable the tools that will produce new knowledge.
Bailey, Charles (2008) Institutional Repositories, Tout de Suite
A very quick introduction to key aspects of institutional
repositories. Fosters further exploration of this topic through
liberal use of relevant references to online documents and links
to pertinent websites.
http://www.escholarlypub.com/digitalkoans/2008/01/06/institutional-repositor
ies-tout-de-suite/
Received on Mon Jan 07 2008 - 12:46:53 GMT