Title
Institutional Repositories: the Library’s New Role
Publication Date
2003
Document Type
Editorial
Abstract
“Institutional repositories” is a new concept for collecting, managing, disseminating, and preserving scholarly works created in digital form by faculty and students in individual universities and colleges. It is born out of problems with the current scholarly communication model structured by commercial journal publishers and vendors. To properly implement these repositories, libraries will need to recruit librarians who possess digital collection management and Open Archive Information System (OAIS) management skills. In addition, training faculty and students to use OAIS, helping them prepare their digital products, involving them in institution-wide policy making, and setting repository goals would be some of the new tasks that libraries will face.
Original Citation
Chang, S. (2003). Institutional Repositories: the Library’s New Role. OCLC Systems & Services, 19(3), 77-79. https://doi.org/10.1108/10650750310733199
Identifier
Virtual Commons Citation
Chang, Sheau-Hwang (2003). Institutional Repositories: the Library’s New Role. In Maxwell Library Faculty Publications. Paper 8.
Available at: https://vc.bridgew.edu/library_fac/8