Institutional repositories: the library’s new role

Abstract

Introductioǹ`I nstitutional repositories'' is a new concept for collecting, managing, disseminating, and preserving scholarly works created in digital form by faculty and students in individual universities and colleges. An individual institutional repository can offer a set of services including digital content submission, organization, access, distribution, and preservation. As Clifford A. Lynch ( 2003), Executive Director of the Coalition for Networked Information, explained:. . . an effective institutional repository of necessity represents a collaboration among librarians, information technologies, archives and records managers, faculty, and university administrators and policymakers.

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