Item from Peter Suber's Open Access News
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2004_11_07_fosblogarchive.html#a110014545760508265
The rise of OA institutional repositories
Leslie Chan, Supporting and Enhancing Scholarship in the Digital Age:
The Role of Open Access Institutional Repositories, Canadian Journal
of Communication, 29 (2004) pp. 277-300.
http://hdl.handle.net/1807/2786
Abstract: 'Scholarly communication and publishing are increasingly
taking place in the electronic environment. With a growing proportion
of the scholarly record now existing only in digital format, serious
and pressing issues regarding access and preservation are being
raised that are central to future scholarship. At the same time,
the desire of scholars to maximize readership of their research
and to take control of the scholarly communication process back
from the restrictive domain of commercial publishing has prompted
the proliferation of access options and experimental models of
publishing. This paper examines the emerging trend of university-based
institutional repositories (IRs) designed to capture the scholarly
output of an institution and to maximize the research impact of this
output. The relationship of this trend to the open access movement is
discussed and challenges and opportunities for using IRs to promote
new modes of scholarship are provided.'
Received on Thu Nov 11 2004 - 14:27:20 GMT