DSpace: One School’s Use of an Open

Source Institutional Repository

Michelle RigualAsst. Director for Collections,

Electronic Resources & Technical ServicesUniversity of New Mexico Law Library

A Scholarly Revolution?

• Luther, Judy. Tectonic Shifts in Scholarly Publishing.

• Dotlinga, Randy. Open-Access Journals Flourish.

• Oxford Journals Launches Oxford Open - A New Open Access Initiative.

• Steinbrook, Robert. Public Access to NIH-Funded Research.

A Scholarly Revolution?

• Buckholtz, Alison. Taxpayers commend precedent set by NIH public access policy: Access advocates call for policy changes if voluntary participation is low.

• Vogel, Gretchen and Martin Enserink. Europe Steps Into the Open With Plans for Electronic Archives.

A Scholarly Revolution?

• Cockerill, Matthew. Access all articles: The momentum towards free online publication of scientific research is becoming unstoppable.

• George, Paul. Open Access: The Future Gate to Scholarly Legal Information.

A Scholarly Revolution?

• Wysocki, Bernard Jr. Scholarly Journals‘ Premier Status Is Diluted by Web: More Research Is Free Online Amid Spurt of Start-Ups; Publishers' Profits at Risk.

• Swanepoel, Marinus. Digital Repositories: All Hype and No Substance?

Overview of Discussion

• Traditional publishing model

• Open Access movement

• Digital Repositories

• Scholarly communication in Law

• The case of University of New Mexico

Median Library Journal Expenditures

• Slide courtesy of Dr. Daniel Greenstein, Associate Vice Provost, Scholarly Information and University Librarian, California Digital Library, University of California

Few Disciplines Are Unaffected

Average CostPer Title

Average CostPer TitleLC Subject

Classification 1999 2003

Percentage ofIncrease

1999-2003Anthropology 259.21 353.44 36.35

Chemistry 1,682.94 2,403.06 42.79

Education 207.79 305.73 47.13

Engineering 981.19 1,359.52 38.56

Philosophy &Religion

123.27 169.89 37.82

PoliticalScience

208.07 315.00 51.39

Books Cut Due to Expense

Open Access Movement

• Revolt against pricing

• New forms of “scholarly communication”

• Grey literature

Institutional Repositories

• Free, online access to an institution’s scholarly materials

• Archive, preserve, index & distribute

• Open Archives Initiative protocol for metadata harvesting (searchable)

Legal Scholarship

• Institutional repositories

• Other digital repositories (SSRN, BePress)

• Journals

• Grey literature

Law Librarians’ Role

• Awareness of movement, benefits, issues

• Copyright preservation

• Metadata