Planning Institutional Repositories: Lessons Learned at Oregon State University Libraries

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Planning Institutional RepositoriesLessons
Learned at Oregon State University Libraries

• Janet Webster
• IAMSLIC 2004
• Hobart, Tasmania

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Planning Process

• Acknowledge opportunity
• Appoint charge task force
• Identify needs within the institution
• Explore issues
• Examine software hardware options
• Recommend pilot project

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Identifying Need

• Who wants it?
• Not a solution to the scholarly communication
  crisis
• Faculty buy-in
• Who could use it?
• Faculty with active personal web pages
• Extension staff
• Students

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Persistent Issues

• Participation
• Rights management
• Quality metadata
• Workflow
• Preservation/archiving
• Policies
• Technical support storage
• Funding

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OSUs Vision

• As one tool in the OSU Libraries suite of
  digital library tools, the OSUs Institutional
  Repository will provide a reliable means for
  faculty members to store and access their
  research and teaching output, for students to do
  the same with their research, and for the
  institution to maintain its historical record.