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Perpetual Beta: Assessing the Institutional Repository
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| Allison Sivak and Leah Vanderjagt |
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Item Number: 978-0-8389-8586-1 |
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Publisher: ALCTS |
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Price: $9.00 |
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14 pages
Year Published: 2011
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The institutional repository (IR) is more than an end product that holds
content. It is a complex system with a variety of participants and a development
course that can most accurately be described as “perpetual
beta.” As a soft ware system with both commercial and open-source iterations,
an institutional repository undergoes continuous change in functionality and
development. Predictions in the early 2000s were that the IR would stimulate
a radical change in scholarly publishing. That initial formative vision has not
yet been fully realized. The literature on institutionally focused IRs, as opposed
to discipline-focused repositories, is starting to recognize that the reductionist
lenses through which librarians view the institutional repository are too
limited for the systems that have been built and the support required from
academia.
Although librarians may promote IRs as the solution to the crisis in scholarly
publishing, other areas of academia have different objectives for the IR and do
not necessarily share that restrictive view. This chapter reviews some of the
major assessment options librarians have for measuring the value and success
of the institutional repository.
For more information, click here.
About the Authors
Allison Sivak is the Assessment Librarian at the University of Alberta Libraries (UAL). She works with system-wide assessment initiatives at the UAL using a variety of methods. She is currently pursuing her PhD in Library and Information Studies and Elementary Education.
Leah Vanderjagt is the Digital Repository Services Librarian at the University of Alberta Libraries (UAL). She administers ERA: Education and Research Archive, which is UAL’s institutional repository, oversees library operations for Electronic Thesis and Dissertation (ETD) submission, and manages and directs the delivery of UAL’s Open Journal Systems service.
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