CARL Institutional Repositories Project

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Browsing CARL Institutional Repositories Project by Author "Shearer, Kathleen"

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    Developing a National Metadata Profile for Institutional Repositories
    (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, 2004-11-18) Jordan, Mark; Shearer, Kathleen
    In the fall of 2002, the Canadian Association of Research Libraries began a project to implement institutional repositories (IRs) at a number of research libraries in Canada. An important part of this project is the pan-Canadian harvester, which was implemented in order to aggregate and search the collections of all of the participating IRs (http://carl-abrc-oai.lib.sfu.ca/). The Canadian harvester has been a valuable way of gathering information about a number of aspects of the IRs in Canada. In essence, it has become a sort of virtual ‘laboratory’ for the project. This brief paper introduces three areas in which we are using the harvester to gather information about Canadian IRs in order to monitor and improve the services being providing by these repositories.
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    Institutional Repositories: A Review of Content Recruitment Strategy
    (2006-10-10) Mark, Tim; Shearer, Kathleen
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    Institutional Repositories: Preserving Digital Scholarship
    (Canadian Association of Research Libraries, 2004-06-02) Jordan, Mark; Shearer, Kathleen
    This presentation describes the role that institutional repositories can play in preserving digital material. The presentation goes on to introduce the CARL Institutional Repositories Project.
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    Institutional Repositories: Towards the Identification of Critical Success Factors
    (Canadian Association of Information Science, 2003-09) Shearer, Kathleen
    Institutional repositories (IRs) are digital collections that capture and preserve the intellectual output of a single or multi-university community. Their aim is to provide access to scholarly material without the economic barriers that currently exist in scholarly publishing. If successful, IRs hold the promise of being very advantageous to researchers everywhere, especially those in the developing world. The IR concept is very new and has yet to be studied in any comprehensive way. This paper describes a study being conducted by the Canadian Association of Research Libraries to determine some success factors of institutional repositories. Through the CARL Institutional Repositories Pilot Project, several variables are being examined to determine whether they contribute to the input activity and use of the IRs being implemented at several Canadian research libraries. The project is in its initial stages, and has yet to show significant results. However, the paper presents a detailed description of the IR concept; identifies and explains the variables that are being studied; and discusses some of the challenges involved in the study.