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The Future of Scholarship in the Digital Age:
The Role of Institutional Repositories
Ann J. Wolpert
Director of Libraries
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Scholarly communication is in transition
Publication is only one part of the network-enabled “system”
Disciplines are experimenting
Traditional outlets are constrained
New formats present preservation challenges
Required responsibilities not yet defined
Increasing amounts of intellectual output have no print analog.
The digital genie is out of the bottle in all disciplines.
Digital and print need new, interoperable management and access models.
Educational content is increasingly digital in format.
Digital is still frighteningly fragile
The scholarly communications system must work for all.
Disciplines can change their assessments and procedures.Universities can change their standards for judging impact.Authors can use contracts that enhance reader access.Publishers can work for more rational economics for book publishing.Editors can accept responsibility for the cost of their journals.
To support a new model, new tools are required.
To share innovation and information To assure affordability and access To build “the record” in new formatsTo preserve “the record” in new formatsTo sustain teaching using new tools and techniquesTo protect university investments
Institutional Repositories offer part of the solution
A tool for faculty and institutions
Institution-based counterweight
Scholarly and educational material in digital formats
Cumulative and perpetual
Open and interoperable
Why Libraries?
Expertise Large-scale collection management
Assessment/collection policies preservation
Metadata Solid business practices
Commitment and reputation Long time frames Mission scope
DSpace was designed for broad adoption from the start.
MIT Libraries/Hewlett Packard Research Labs collaborative development projectBroad vs deepFederation model with support from Mellon FoundationPreservation archiveOpen SourceAgnostic as to content145 repositories worldwide, 4000+ downloads
DSpace Offerings
Large-scale, stable, managed long-term storage
Support for range of digital formats
Easy-to-use submission process
Persistent network identifiers
Access control
Search and delivery interface
Initially imagined content
Preprints, articles
Technical Reports
Working Papers
Conference Papers
E-theses
Datasets statistical, geospatial,
matlab, etc.
Images visual, scientific, etc.
Audio files
Video files
Learning Objects
Reformatted digital library collections
In fact, institutional repositories reflect the interests of the host
Student portfolios
Theses and dissertations
Preprints
Digitized library collections
Working papers
Institutional “branding” and/or reach Intellectual and/or Innovation
Challenges
Faculty Acceptance Valuing and trusting an institutional archive Myriad disciplines with different cultures Copyright/IP opinions and policies
Library Culture Policies Operations
Publisher responses Clamp down Loosen up Legislation/regulation
Sustainability
What’s next for DSpace and other Institutional Repositories?
Digital preservation Digital files (e.g. audio, video, image, text) Web sites (e.g. W3C) Software programs
Enhanced access and usability Indexing and Search engines Interoperability: course systems & desktops
Federation and economic sustainabilityPatience, persistence, collaboration
http://www.dspace.org
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