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INSTITUTIONAL REPOSITORIES

Learn about Institutional Repositories (IR) - a system to store and share academic information, enhancing research communication and teaching. Discover how IR benefits the research community and supports open access. Find out the practical and idealistic goals of IR in promoting quality research and providing public access to education.

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INSTITUTIONAL REPOSITORIES

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  1. INSTITUTIONAL REPOSITORIES Open Access Scholarly Communication Conference Pretoria, July 2004 Lilian van der Vaart, Eleftheria vaart@eleftheria.demon.nl What and Why

  2. IR – what is it? A system that enables an (academic) institute to store and ‘publish’ its information as a service to its faculty, students, other researchers, the general public

  3. IR – what is it? ‘System’: Cables and boxes: hardware, software, network PEOPLE Rules and regulations: policies, procedures, workflows

  4. IR – What can you do with it? Other options? Research reporting Collaboratory IR CV Teaching Web publishing Archive DARE programme With thanks to the w

  5. IR – what does it offer the (research) community? Access Retrievability Visibility Speed Ease

  6. IR – why? • Practical goals: • Assist researchers in • Communicating / publishing research • Teaching • Administrative duties (reporting, cv’s, digital archiving) • Provide (better) e-learning environment for students • Promote university/department for quality research/teaching • Provide/improve quality information on research and educational issues to general public

  7. IR – why? • Idealistic goals: • Improve access to / availability of research information • Scope, reach • Contribute to opening up research communication and publication processes • Reduce biases • (Restore) responsibility & role university for research communication / publication • Public accountability for publicly funded research

  8. IR – in summary • Clever way to organize and publicize one’s academic output • No IR • without people • without purpose • without fit between people and purpose

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