Roundtable on Institutional Repositories

Authors

David Howard, Edith Cowan University
Ray White, University of Western Australia
David Wells, Curtin University of Technology
Rebecca Foley, University of London

Document Type

Presentation

Publisher

School of Computer and Security Science, Edith Cowan University, Perth, Western Australia

Comments

The Roundtable will explore local experience in planning, designing and implementing IRs with a panel of speakers from Edith Cowan University (David Howard), the University of Western Australia (Ray White), Curtin University (David Wells) and Rebecca Foley (formerly of the SHERPA-LEAP project / University of London).

The Roundtable will be of interest to students and anyone who has implemented or is planning to implement an institutional repository.

Abstract

An Institutional Repository (IR) is a set of services and technologies that provide the means to collect, manage, provide access to, disseminate, and preserve digital materials produced at an institution (Shreeves and Cragin, 2008). The take up of IR technologies in universities has been broadly contemporaneous with the adoption of Web 2.0 technologies, beginning with the release of the first usable system, DSpace, in 2002. Since 2002, IRs have moved from academia to government, museums and corporations. Today, IRs are increasingly seen as a key component of the ‘networked information economy’ (Benkler, 2006). In many institutions, libraries are assuming program responsibility for institutional repositories.