The Institutional Repository and the return of the university press?

Garret McMahonTCD Library

Presentation to IUISC March2009 - Galway

Trinity will seek to strengthen the presentation of new research and scholarship to the public through an enhancement of its communications…Active consideration

will be given to the revival of a College press for scholarly publication.

The University of Dublin, Trinity College - Strategic Plan Update 2006

The service context

An Institutional Repository is an online locus for collecting, preserving, and disseminating -- in digital form -- the intellectual output of an institution, particularly a research institution.

A university press is an academic, nonprofit publishing house that is typically affiliated with a large research university, and publishes work that has been reviewed by scholars in the field.

It produces mainly scholarly works. Wikipedia Definitions

The service context - the rise of the Institutional Repository

The service context - the rise of the Institutional Repository in Ireland

The service context - the decline of the university press

Commercial publishers now play a role in publishing over 60 percent of all peer–reviewed journals, owning 45 percent outright and publishing another 17 percent on behalf of non–profit organizations-Raym Crow ‘Publishing cooperatives: an alternative for non-profit publishers’ firstmonday 11, (9) 2006 [ http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/1396/1314]

University publishing in a digital age - Ithaka Report 2007

The service context - reasons for IR service growth

The threat to library services posed by the continuing serials crisis

Close alignment to the institutional mission

A born digital service

Research impact focused

The institutional repository as part of an enabling infrastructure - igitur

The institutional repository as part of an enabling infrastructure - igitur publishing services

• Part of a library department created in 2004 to support electronic publishing and archiving• Open access / delayed access / subscription based publishing models• Non-profit

The institutional repository as part of an enabling infrastructure - the spirit of earnest inquiry

The institutional repository as part of an enabling infrastructure - the spirit of earnest inquiry

The institutional repository as part of an enabling infrastructure - journalizing the monograph

Ivana Bacik, Cathryn Costello and Eileen Drew, Gender inJustice: feminising the legal professions, Dublin, Trinity College Dublin. Law School, 2003, 1 - 431pp

The institutional repository as part of an enabling infrastructure - journalizing the monograph

The institutional repository as part of an enabling infrastructure - next steps

• Migrate the hosting of the JSSISI to Open Journal Systems• OJS is installed locally and locally controlled.• Editors configure requirements, sections, review process, etc.• Online submission and management of all content.•Subscription module with delayed open access options. •Comprehensive indexing of content part of global system.•Reading Tools for content, based on field and editors' choice.• Email notification and commenting ability for readers.

• TARA to act as a preservation layer

Finally

A commitment to the value and quality of research carries with it a responsibility to extend the circulation of such work as far as possible and ideally to all who are interested in it and all who mightprofit by it.

John Willinsky, The Access Principal, MIT Press, 2006