University of Oregon Libraries

Resources for Institutional Repositories

This page provides links supporting the NASIG Pre-Conference on "How to Implement an Institutional Repository" https://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/dspace/handle/1794/2484 given May 4, 2006 by Carol Hixson.

Background documents or sites:

Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Efforts

• ACRL Scholarly Communication Site

Association of Research Libraries (ARL)Efforts

• ARL Scholarly Communication Home
• The Case for Institutional Repositories : A SPARC Position Paper
• Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC)
• SPARC Institutional Repository Checklist & Resource Guide, November 2002
• SPARC Open Access News Blog
• SPARC Open Access Newsletter

Canadian Association of Research Libraries

• CARL Institutional Repository Project: Online Resource Portal

Copyright Resources

• United States
  • Academic Journal Policy Database / University of Cincinnati
  • Association of Research Libraries Copyright Home
  • Copyright and Fair Use / ALA
  • Copyright and Fair Use / Stanford University Libraries
  • Copyright information for Educators / University of Washington
  • Copyright Management Center / Indiana University, Purdue
  • Copyright Website
  • Copyown
  • Crash course in copyright / UT System
  • Creative Commons
  • DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act ) EDUCAUSE Resource
  • Electronic Frontier Foundation
  • Scholarly Communication Center / NCSU Libraries
  • SHERPA/RoMEO Publisher copyright policies & self-archiving
  • Technology, Education and Copyright Harmonization (Teach) Act from ARL
  • United States Copyright Office
  • When works pass into the public domain / Lolly Gasaway, University of North Carolina
• Canada
  • Access Copyright
  • Canadian Intellectual Property Office
  • CARL-ABRC Copyright Home

Other Background Publications or Sites

• Academic Institutional Repositories : Deployment Status in 13 Nations as of Mid 2005 / Gerard van Westrienen and Clifford Lynch (September 2005)
• Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities
• Budapest Open Archives Initiative
• Business planning for cultural heritage institutions : a framework and resource guide to assist cultural heritage institutions with business planning for sustainability of digital asset management programs / by Liz Bishoff and Nancy Allen (Council on Library and Information Resources, c2004) print only
• Crisis in Scholarly Communication / Ohio State University Library
• Further Information on Institutional Repositories / a Web site compiled by Robert H. McDonald
• Future of Electronic Data: Will the Universities' Own Electronic Repositories Affect Traditional Publishing? / by Ann Wolpert
• Information Revolution: Can Institutional Repositories and Open Access Transform Scholarly Communications? / by David Prosser
• Institutional Repositories: Essential Infrastructure for Scholarship in the Digital Age /
  by Clifford A. Lynch, Executive Director, Coalition for Networked Information (February 2003)
• The institutional repository / Richard Jones, Theo Andrew and John MacColl (Oxford : Chandos Publishing, 2006) available in print only
• Institutional Repository Deployment in the United States as of Early 2005 / Clifford A. Lynch and Joan Lippincott (Sept. 2005)
• Open Archives Initiative
• Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH)
• Project RoMEO (Rights MEtadata for Open archiving)
• Removing the Barriers: An Introduction to Open Access for Librarians, by Peter Suber
  pp. 92-94, 113.)
• Resources, Standards, and Background Information for Digital Collections (Including Digital Preservation) / compiled by Carol Hixson, University of Oregon
• Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography / Charles W. Bailey, Jr. (updated periodically)
• Wellcome Trust position statement in support of open and unrestricted access to published research