Institutional repositories have become a reminder that it’s hard to predict what products of academe the world at large will want access to. The flashiest research may not be the most popular. Digital ...

*The lesson here: if people are devoted to their information, you can't get 'em to give it away for free, even if it costs a ton to hold on to it, and far fewer people will read it. In June 1994, ...

Preserving and sharing the knowledge of today with the scholars of tomorrow is a crucial part of any learning institution’s mission. UB’s Digital Repository is a free resource for all UB-affiliated ...

It used to be that the record of scientific work was complete when it was all published in journals. For a select few – read "Nobel Prize winners" – your lab notebooks and correspondence were of ...

What is the Institutional Repository (IR)? The Lycoming College Institutional Repository provides online open access to Lycoming College student and faculty scholarship, institutional publications, ...

The publishing giant Elsevier became a major player in the institutional repository landscape Wednesday with the acquisition of the private company Bepress. The acquisition is the third such purchase ...

This is a section within Good practices for university open-access policies. Adopting an OA policy is easier than implementing one, and the hardest part of implementing a "green" or repository-based ...

The institution must have an institutional repository, or participate in a consortial repository. Most schools launch a repository before adopting a policy to fill it, but some do it the other way ...

MINSK, 23 September (BelTA) – Belarusian State University (BSU) Digital Library remains the leader among institutional repositories of Europe and is one of the world's three best institutional ...

Journal subscriptions are dropping for the majority of law school law journals. This drop could be attributed to a number of factors for subscribers. Many subscribers share the common concerns of ...

"This study profiles the efforts of six renown research universities to develop and manage their institutional digital repositories. The institutions profiled are: Carnegie Mellon University, Indiana ...

This policy pertains to the materials and aims of the University of Wyoming’s institutional repository, WyoScholar, hereafter referred to as the “repository.” The repository serves to collect, ...