INSTITUTIONAL REPOSITORIES

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

INSTITUTIONAL REPOSITORIES