Institutional Repositories

Success Stories

• Hagerdorn, Kat Looking for Pearls of Information. Research Information (March/April 2005).
• Misek, Marla, "eScholars of the World, Unite! The University of California Revolutionizes Publishing Paradigm" EContent (March 2004).

Repositories in LIS

Repositories of pre-prints, Open Access, conference papers and other materials in LIS

• dLIST
• E-LIS
• Archives SIC (French archive in Communication and Information Sciences)
• Librarians Digital Library

Software

• CDSware - CERN Document Server Software from Switzerland published under the GPL.
• DSpace - a digital repository system developed by MIT and HP that is in use at many institutions.
• Fedora - repository software developed Cornell University and the University of Virginia.
• GNU EPrints - online archival software published under the GPL.
• DoKS software - DOcument and Knowledge Sharing application.

Commercial Software

• Digital Commons- by Bepress.
• Digital Media Archive Technology - by Sirsi.
• Digitool - by Ex Libris.
• Symposia - by Innovative Interfaces

Great Examples

• University of California's eScholarship Repository
• Cornell University Library Technical Reports and Papers
• MIT's own DSpace implementation
• SMARTech at Georgia Tech
• RIT's DSpace implementation- still in the works]
• ScholarWorks at Boise State University
• SIT Study Abroad/SIT Graduate Institute's DigitalCollections@SIT - using BePress's Digital Commons
• University of Nebraska's Digital Commons repository

Blogs/Websites to Watch

• Open Access News: news from the Open Access movement. The most complete blog about OA, edited by Peter Suber.
• D-Lib Magazine: An impressive electronic journal about digital library development.
• Sherpa: A project to set up institutional repositories in the UK

Specific Blog Posts/Articles to Check Out

• Vol.33, no. 3 (2005) issue of "Reference Services Review," will be a special issue about "the role of the reference librarian in the development, management, dissemination, and sustainability of institutional repositories." Read a pre-print of Charles W. Bailey's "The role of reference librarians in institutional repositories"
• Institutional Repositories: Essential Infrastructure for Scholarship in the Digital Age by Clifford Lynch.
• Where Do We Go From Here? The Next Decade for Digital Libraries by Clifford Lynch in D-Lib Magazine, July/August 2005.
• Understanding Faculty to Improve Content Recruitment for Institutional Repositories by Nancy Fried Foster and Susan Gibbons, University of Rochester. In D-Lib Magazine, January 2005.
• Institutional Repositories: Hidden Treasures by Miriam A. Drake in Searcher Magazine, May 2004.