How I Stopped Worrying and Learned To Love Institutional Repositories

MLA Applied Technologies and Trends / May 9, 2013
Library Technology Conference / March 20 – 21, 2013

• Institutional Repository Checklist and Best Practices

Digitization Standards

• Digital Library Federation
• Library of Congress Digital Preservation
• Society of American Archivists External Digitization Standards
• Technical Guidelines for Digitizing Cultural Heritage Materials: Creation of Raster Image Master Files

Institutional Repositories Examples

• Universities and Four Year Colleges
  • Deep Blue at UMich
  • DigitalCommons at Wayne State University
  • ScholarWorks@GVSU
• Community Colleges
  • ScholarSpace @ Johnson County Community College
• Subject Speciality Repositories
  • E-LIS
    E-Prints in library and information science
  • eScholarship
    Provides Open-Access scholarly publishing services to
    the University of California, powered by the California Digital Library
• Federated Repositiories
  • MERLOT
    Peer reviewed online teaching and learning materials

Software

Repositories Support Project software survey, November 2010

• ContentDM
• Digital Commons by BePress
• DigiTool
• DSpace (Open source)
• EPrints (Open source)
• EQUELLA
• FedoraCommons (Open source)
• Honeycomb Archive (Cloud)
• Islandora (Open source)
• MediaValet (Cloud)
• OpenRepository (Hosted DSpace solution)
• Widen Collective (Cloud)

IR Complements

• Open Archives
• Creative Commons
• Selected Works
• OpenDOAR
• MIT OpenCourseWare

Reading list

• Developing Mobile Access to Digital Collections
  By Carmen Mitchell, California State University San Marcos
  By Daniel Suchy, University of California, San Diego
  Published in: DLib Magazine, January 2012
• Discovery vs Discoverability
  By Lorcan Dempsey
  Published in: Lorcan Dempsey’s Weblog at OCLC, January 2013
• Faculty Papers and Special-Subject Repositories
  By Jane Wolff, The Center for History of Physics, The American Institute of Physics
  Published in: American Archivist, Fall 1981
• Google Drive as an Institutional Repository
  By Roy Tennant
  Published in: Digital Libraries, March 2013
• Innkeeper at the Roach Motel
  By Dorothea Salo
  Published in: Library Trends 57:2, fall 2008
• Institutional Repositories: Hidden Treasures
  By Miriam A. Drake – Georgia Institute of Technology
  Published in: Searcher, May 2004
• Libraries’ move to digital poses risks, benefits
  By Becky Robinson
  Published in: The Crimson White, March 2013
• Proceedings from the Institutional Repository Exploratory Committee
  By Mott Community College
  Published in: 2012
• Repositories Support Project
• Repositories! (What are they good for?)
  By Peter Sefton
  Published in: ptsefton.com, March 2013
• The Case for Institutional Repositories: A SPARC Position Paper
  By Raym Crow, SPARC Senior Consultant
  Published in: SPARC, 2002
• Using XSLT and Google Scripts to Streamline Populating an Institutional Repository
  By by Stephen X. Flynn, Catalina Oyler, Marsha Miles
  Published in: Code4Lib Journal, March 2013