Scholarly Communication  Tags: research scholarly_communication publishing open_access copyright  

The Library and the Academic IT Committee are discussing the creation of an IR here at Dominican.  Look for more information, including dates and times of townhall meetings, soon.

Clifford Lynch's well-known definition:

"a university-based institutional repository is a set of services that a university offers to the members of its community for the management and dissemination of digital materials created by the institution and its community members.  It is most essentially an organization commitment to the stewardship of these digital materials, including long-term preservation where appropriate, as well as organization and access or distribution."

From : Institutional Repositories: Essential Infrastructure for Scholarship in the Digital Age
http://www.arl.org/resources/pubs/br/br226/br226ir.shtml

Each institution decides what materials it wants in its IR.  Common items are:

• article pre-prints and post-prints
• working papers
• conference proceedings
• student projects
• journals created by the institution
• monographs
• newsletters & annual reports
• photos, audio & video
• data sets