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Institutional Repositories, Libraries, and the Academy
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| Marilyn S. Billings |
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Item Number: 978-0-8389-8607-3 |
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Publisher: ALCTS |
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Price: $9.00 |
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10 pages
Year Published: 2012
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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 software 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.
This chapter examines the shift from traditional to electronic scholarly publishing, a subject of widespread interest and concern among librarians, and the ways in which it is altering the role of libraries and librarians in the twenty-first century.
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About the Author
Marilyn S. Billings is the Scholarly Communication & Special Initiatives Librarian at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. An important component of her responsibilities is the management of the digital repository ScholarWorks @ UMass Amherst. She provides campus-wide leadership and education in alternative scholarly communication strategies and is frequently an invited speaker at faculty department colloquia. She gives presentations on author rights, alternative digital publishing models and the role of digital repositories in today's research and scholarship endeavors at regional and national venues.
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