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Access Management (Technologies) Electronic Publishing (STI Management) |
| Author: | Clifford A. Lynch, Executive Director, Coalition for Networked Information |
| Abstract: | In this article, Dr. Lynch recognized the development of institutional repositories as a new strategy that allows universities to accelerate changes taking place in scholarship and scholarly communication. He defines institutional repositories as a set of services that a university offers to its members for the management and dissemination of digital materials created by the institution and its community members. He explains the strategic importance of repositories indicating that they have roles beyond disseminating and managing the works of individual scholars that are part of the dialog of scholarly communications. He has three concerns about insitutional repositories: that they are cast as tools of institutional (administrative) strategies to exercise control over what has typically been faculty controlled intellectual work; that we respect institutional repositories as infrastructure and not overload it with distracting and irrelevant policy; and that repositories will be offered hastily and without much real institutional commitment. Dr. Lynch believes that institutional repositories will promote progress in the development of infrastructure standards. In closing Dr. Lynch predicts that institutional repositories will have a variety of configurations, e.g., consortial or cluster institutional repositories, federation repositories, and community or public repositories. |
| Publisher: | Association of Research Libraries |
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| Date Published: | 2003-02 |
| Source: | ARL, no. 226 (February 2003): 1-7 |
| Resource Type: | Report |
| Language: | English |
| Format: | HTML |
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| Rights Management: | Copyright The Association of Research Libraries |
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