Cataloging for a Celebration: Metadata for an Institutional Repository from the Ground Up

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to be concerned with the motivations and resistance among an institutional repository (IR) stakeholder – the Library and Information Science (LIS) academicians – with respect to Green Road open access publishing in an inter-institutional repository. Design/methodology/approach – The answers were identified from 47 LIS faculty from three library schools in Malaysia who reported awareness of what an IR is and having had experience in contributing resources to digital repositories. Data were collected using survey and interviews. Findings – The results highlighted the LIS faculty on their motivation to share their intellectual profile, research and teaching resources in an inter-institutional repositories and why the reluctance in contributing. The study reveals that the major motivation to share resources for those practicing self-archiving is related to performance expectancy, social influence, visible and authoritative advantage, career benefit and quality work. The major resistance to share scholarly research output through self-archiving in institutional repositories for those practicing self-archiving is concern on plagiarism, time and effort, technical infrastructure, lack of self-efficacy and insularity. Practical implications – Knowing what conditions predict motivation and resistance to contribute to IRs would allow IR administrators to ensure greater and more effective participation in resource-sharing among LIS academic community. If this resistance is addressed aptly, IRs can be of real benefit to their teaching, scholarship, collaborations, and publishing and to the community that they serve. Originality/value – The first study that has explored the ways LIS academics respond to a situation where knowledge sharing in academe has now been made mandatory through an IR and what makes them resist to do so.

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Publikationsmanagement – eine wichtige künftige Aufgabe an Hochschulen Wie sind Forschungsbericht, Institutional Repository und die Interessen des wissenschaftlichen Autors vereinbar? –

ABI-Technik ◽

10.1515/abitech.2010.30.2.130 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 30 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Helge Steenweg

Keyword(s):

Institutional Repository

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Developing an institutional repository using DigiTool

The Electronic Library ◽

10.1108/02640471111177044 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 29 (5) ◽

pp. 589-608

Author(s):

Shu Liu ◽

Yongli Zhou

Keyword(s):

Institutional Repository

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Building Collaboration for an Institutional Repository in Africa: Transcending Barriers, Creating Opportunities

Journal of Interlibrary Loan Document Delivery & Electronic Reserve ◽

10.1080/1072303x.2014.997415 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 24 (3-4) ◽

pp. 103-111 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Yetunde A. Zaid ◽

Olatokunbo Christopher Okiki

Keyword(s):

Institutional Repository

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Creative collaboration: student creative works in the institutional repository

Digital Library Perspectives ◽

10.1108/dlp-03-2017-0010 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 34 (1) ◽

pp. 20-31

Author(s):

Rose Sliger Krause ◽

Andrea Langhurst Eickholt ◽

Justin L. Otto

Keyword(s):

Teaching And Learning ◽

Music Performance ◽

Lessons Learned ◽

Institutional Repository ◽

Student Centered ◽

Student Work ◽

Content Type ◽

Music Department ◽

Eastern Washington ◽

The University

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to describe the music performance collection preserved in Eastern Washington University’s institutional repository (IR). This collection of recordings of student music performances is the result of an ongoing collaboration between the university?s library and music department, which serves to provide discoverability, preservation and access to a collection of student creative works, which had heretofore been a hidden collection. Design/methodology/approach This collection of student creative work was identified as a suitable project for the Eastern Washington University’s IR while it was still in the planning stages because it was identified as an existing need that the new IR could address. Much of the groundwork for the collaboration between the library and music department was completed prior to IR implementation. Thus, the library was ready to begin work on this collection once the IR was operational. Findings The student music performance collection has been a successful project for the IR, which benefits the music department by making student performances discoverable and accessible, and benefits the library by providing the opportunity to demonstrate that the then-new IR could support the university’s student-centered focus on teaching and learning. Originality/value While there is a growing body of literature on IRs emphasizing student work, there is little literature on music or other creative works’ collections in IRs, much less on creative works by students. This paper adds to the limited body of literature on student creative works in the IR by describing the development, implementation and lessons learned from the successful music performances collection.

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Building an Open Source Institutional Repository at a Small Law School Library: Is it Realistic or Unattainable?

Information Technology and Libraries ◽

10.6017/ital.v30i2.3008 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 30 (2) ◽

pp. 81 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Fang Wang

Keyword(s):

Open Source ◽

School Library ◽

Law School ◽

Institutional Repository ◽

Digital Repository ◽

Law Faculty ◽

Development Support ◽

The Law ◽

Texas Tech University ◽

Set Up

Digital preservation activities among law libraries have largely been limited by a lack of funding, staffing and expertise. Most law school libraries that have already implemented an Institutional Repository (IR) chose proprietary platforms because they are easy to set up, customize, and maintain with the technical and development support they provide. The Texas Tech University School of Law Digital Repository is one of the few law school repositories in the nation that is built on the DSpace open source platform.1 The repository is the law school’s first institutional repository in history. It was designed to collect, preserve, share and promote the law school’s digital materials, including research and scholarship of the law faculty and students, institutional history, and law-related resources. In addition, the repository also serves as a dark archive to house internal records.

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