Institutional Repository (IR)

and Open Accessin Academic Libraries

Jenny Jing

New York City

Sept. 16, 2015

Technology

Resources

Academic Libraries - Reality:Changes & Challenges

Users

Interface, System, Data & Open Access

System/AdminInterface/Web Data/DB

Data: Queries, Perl, XML,DB: Oracle, MySQL, AccessTools: Perl, Excel, XSLT

Programing: php, Javascript, html, etc.Publish Tools: Drupal, WordPress

Server: Shell scripting, config, maintain, etc. OS: UNIX, WindowsEditor tools: Vi, Pico

Open Access

Software InfrastructurePlatformsILS: Voyager, AlephILL, Etc.

Link resolver : 360 Link library guides: LibGuidesOnline databases

IR (Scholarly Publications): DSpaceDAM (Digital Preservation): Fedora Discovery Systems: Summon Websites: Library Homepage

Library Systems – Reality: Changes & Trends

IR in the Big Picture of Digital Curation Systems

http://www.slideshare.net/ubclibrary/ubc-librarys-digital

What is IR? Trend?

• Collecting and curating digital output;• Managing and measuring research and teaching activities;• Providing a workspace for collaborative or large-scale projects;• Enabling and encouraging interdisciplinary approaches to research;• Facilitating the development and sharing of digital teaching materials • Supporting student endeavours, providing access to theses,

dissertations

* A digital collection of an organization’s intellectual output.

Key functions:

IR: Major Systems

Cost - General

Workflow : QSpace ETD Workflow – Students

Rosarie Coughlan, Scholarly Publishing Librarian, Queen’s University Library

Consortia:

- Enhance standards, policies- Enhance co-operation- Share cost, experience/skills/expertise- Share technology and hardware

IR Trends: Collaboration

Best Practice: COPPUL (23 University Libraries)

• The Council of Prairie and Pacific University Libraries (COPPUL)

• Tools Developed by COPPUL: - LOCKSSdm (CONTENTdm) - DSpace 1.x - LOCKSS-O-Matic

https://coppuldpwg.wordpress.com/

• Software as a service: IR system• Participation & communication: mandate• Education: Training/workshops/Workflow, copyrights• Metadata: • Use metrics to evaluate and assess IRs: - Number of Items

- Visibility and Indexing- Awareness, Understanding, User Experience

IR Trends: new service

IR Trends: New technologies SWORD protocol: • Deposit to multiple repositories at once• Deposit from a desktop client • Deposit by third party systems • Repository to repository deposit

Linked Data: • Authority Control : IR, DAM, web sites• Increase data reuse and Information Stability• Bring more traffic to web sites

IR & Open Access in Academic Libraries

IR & Open Access @ Queen’s Library

Acknowledges & References• Rosarie Coughlan, Scholarly Publishing Librarian, Queen’s University Library• Kelli Babcock, Digital Initiatives Librarian, Information Technology Services,

University of Toronto Libraries• Bronwen Sprout, Head, Digital Programs and Services Digital Initiatives,

Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, University of British Columbia• Institutional Repositories: An Analysis of Trends and a Proposed Collaborative Future (http://

www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10691316.2014.943919)• Institutional repositories: Current state and future• (https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/bitstream/handle/2142/10679/shreevescragin.pdf?sequen)• Institutional Repositories: Exploration of Costs and Value• (http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january13/burns/01burns.html)