Richard -
one further use of IRs is - usually closely linked with a CRIS (Current
Research Information System) - as a database to provide statistics on
research output (publications,not patents nor products) by institution,
department, group, individual researcher.
This may be used in exercises such as the RAE in UK.
In Norway, the FRIDA CRIS (centrally maintained in Oslo but partitioned
by university) includes basic publication information and is being used
directly to affect the funding to each university based on research
outputs.
[for anyone interested, more information on CRIS an be found at
www.eurocris.org ]
[by the way, you may wish to ad to your list of IR software the CCLRC
ePubs system
http://epubs.cclrc.ac.uk/ ]
K
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From: American Scientist Open Access Forum
[mailto:AMERICAN-SCIENTIST-OPEN-ACCESS-FORUM_at_LISTSERVER.SIGMAXI.ORG] On
Behalf Of Richard Poynder
Sent: 23 December 2005 10:13
To: AMERICAN-SCIENTIST-OPEN-ACCESS-FORUM_at_LISTSERVER.SIGMAXI.ORG
Subject: Institutional Repositories
Hi All,
I am aware that the concept of "the institutional repository" (IR) tends
to mean different things to different people, so I would be interested in
hearing people's views on the topic.
Amongst the different roles I have heard people argue that IRs can/should
play are:
a) as a repository for a university's research output, with the aim of
increasing access to that research, and so enhancing its impact
b) as a tool for preserving and curating a university's research output
c) as a tool to assist a university in its digital publishing ambitions,
and
d) as a tool to enable universities offer digital courseware and online
learning services.
Would others agree that IRs are viewed as potentially assisting in all
these tasks?
Are there other tasks people see being assigned to IRs?
Can an IR play a number of different roles simultaneously, or should it
be restricted to just one (possibly two) roles? What are the pros and
cons of using an IR to play more than one role?
Also, what solutions are people choosing when setting up IRs? I am aware
that there are now a number of software and service providers (both for
profit and non-profit), including Eprints, DSpace, Fedora, ProQuest and
BMC. But what are people's views on the roles these different providers
can/should play? Are they playing them well?
Finally, I am also curious as to the current state of play in the major
universities (Stanford, Yale, University of California, MIT, CalTech,
Harvard, Oxford, Cambridge etc. etc.). I assume they all now have IRs up
and running, but what sort of IRs are they creating, what solutions are
they choosing when creating them, what roles are being assigned to these
IRs, and how are these universities going about populating them with the
institution's research output?
Richard Poynder
Freelance Journalist
www.richardpoynder.com
http://poynder.blogspot.com
Received on Tue Jan 03 2006 - 13:12:35 GMT