The Institutional Repository Rediscovered: What Can a University Do for Open Access Publishing?

Serials Review

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 21-26

  Bankier, Jean Gabriel ^a   Perciali, Irene ^a  

^a Berkeley Electronic Press   (United States)

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EID: 43149094414     PISSN: 00987913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.serrev.2007.12.003     Document Type: Article

References (22)

1. If there has been growth, it has been slow. Alma Swan's 2005 report at Key Perspectives shows a growth from around 10% to 20%. Growth is good, of course, but the overall numbers are not enough to make a movement. "How [and why] publishers can work with institutional repositories." Presented at the Society for Scholarly Publishing's annual conference, Boston (June 2005). Available at http://www.keyperspectives.co.uk/openaccessarchive/Conference%2520presentations/Swan%2520-%2520SSP%2520presentation.pdf.
2. Swan A., and Brown S. Open Access Self-Archiving: An Author Study (2005), Key Perspectives Ltd, Truro, U.K. http://www.keyperspectives.co.uk/openaccessarchive/reports.html Available at http://www.keyperspectives.co.uk/openaccessarchive/reports.html
3. Anthony Watkinson, e-mail to liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu, November 25, 2007.
4. One survey reports on thirty faculty members at the University of Rochester. Susan Gibbons, "Making the Repository a Success with your Academic Staff" Rochester, NY: University of Rochester, June 29, 2006), 20. Available at http://www.apsr.edu.au/successful/gibbons1.ppt. A second survey studied content recruitment leaders from fifty-four institutions with IRs. John Potter, "Perceptions about Content Recruitment Strategies Over Time," Journal of Institutional Repository Research 1 (2007): 1-8. Available at http://www.freewebs.com/academicportfolio/perceptions.pdf.
5. "DSpace: Durable Digital Archives," http://web.mit.edu/edtech/casestudies/dspace.html (accessed December 13, 2007).
6. In this paper, we focus on academic institutions' repositories. However, our observations and comments apply to disciplinary repositories and non-academic repositories, which can also be sites for active content production and could offer the tools to support peer-reviewed journals for their communities.
7. Swan, 2005.
8. Laura Brown, Rebecca Griffiths, and Matthew Rascoff, University Publishing in a Digital Age (New York: Ithaka, 2007). The report finds that universities are seeking ways to "revitalize the university's publishing role and capabilities in this digital age" (6). Available at http://www.ithaka.org/strategic-services/university%1Epublishing.
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20. Esposito, 2007.
21. Universities and administrators recognize that the university's core competencies do not include running a journal business: neither editorial management nor peer-review workflow nor acquisitions nor marketing nor sales.
22. Anthony Watkinson, e-mail to liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu, November 22, 2007.