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INSTITUTIONAL REPOSITORIES UPDATE. Joan K. Lippincott, Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) Simon Fraser University June 26, 2009. Coalition for Networked Information (CNI). Founded in 1990 by ARL and EDUCAUSE
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INSTITUTIONAL REPOSITORIES UPDATE Joan K. Lippincott, Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) Simon Fraser University June 26, 2009
Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) • Founded in 1990 by ARL and EDUCAUSE • Mission: accelerate progress in digital information related to research and education • 200+ member institutions • Executive Director Clifford Lynch • Headquarters in Washington, DC • www.cni.org • Fall and Spring Task Force (membership) meetings
Highlight Three IR Issues • Revisiting the mission • Strategies for increasing content submission • Inclusion of new types of content
IR: Mission Possible? • Is the mission to provide stewardship for all types of digital products being produced at an institution? • Focus on stewardship role of library/archives • Focus on gray literature produced at the university • Is the mission to provide a place for published faculty output, possibly supplemented with other materials like research data? • Focus on Open Access policies • …or something else? • (credit: Clifford Lynch, 2009)
IR: Mission Possible? • Do you have a strong mandate or incentive to provide this service? • Clear signal from administrators/faculty • Dedication to fulfilling the library mission • How motivated is the library to provide resources for the IR? • “If you build it, they will come” is generally not working in this arena
Who should be involved in establishing or revisiting the mission? • Librarians • Academic administrators • Faculty • Faculty governing body • Graduate students • Others?
Repositories • What serves your constituency best and for what content? • Institutional • Disciplinary • National • Regional (EU, etc.) • How do the levels of repositories interrelate and interoperate? • How can you explain this issue to researchers?
Strategies for Content Submission • There is no substitute for understanding your user population • Interviews • Observation of workflow • Speaking at faculty meetings and getting feedback • Surveys or other data collection • Identify target departments/institutes
Strategies for Content Submission • The “Special Libraries solution” – do it for them • The build a tool(s) to make it easy solution • The institutional Open Access faculty resolution solution • The requirement solution, e.g. for ETDs or institutional reporting • The “payoff” solution – make the IR something that enhances faculty’s research dissemination and visibility
Faculty Motivation and Compliance “Although self-archiving is ‘so simple that a child could do it,’ sometimes a child is not available…” Therefore, the library does the work for faculty, even reformatting preprints for the IR. Paul Royster, U. Nebraska
Researcher Interest and Motivation • Disciplinary differences • University mandates • Personal reputation; evidence of use • Dissemination of information to developing countries • Concern about digital information curation after retirement
Motivation Strategies • European Economics Portal NEOO • Open access to economics information • Peer status
Compliance Strategies • 95% researchers say they would add content to IR if required by institution or funder, and in test cases around 90% complied • Alma Swan, American Scientist listserv, 8/06 • Canadian Institutes of Health Research Mandate • NIH Deposit Mandate in the US
IRs and Publishing Programs • What are the goals of each • What is the relationship between programs • Clarify relationships for the library and for researchers
Inclusion of New Types of Content • What are your institutional goals for moving beyond text/PDF? • Data related to science, humanities, etc. research • Multi-media objects • Learning objects • What claims can you make about stewardship?
Data in Repositories • Storage needs • Formats • Updating • Migrating • Subject and tool expertise • Authenticity/tampering
Moving Forward • Continue to build understanding of your users • Clarify the relationship between institutional/national/regional and subject repositories • Do something important for your institution • Share results of your initiatives with others
Resources • Lynch, Clifford. “Revisiting Institutional Repositories” • Will be available at http://www.cni.org/tfms/2009a.spring/abstracts/PB-revisiting-lynch.html • “Increasing Use and Content through Creative Service-Repository Bundling,” U. Nebraska • http://www.arl.org/sparc/publications/media-pubs/index.shtml
Contact Joan Lippincott joan@cni.org