CARL Institutional Repositories Project

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    A digital library of gambling-related publications
    (2005-06-06) Stevens, Rhys
    Over the past several years, the Alberta Gaming Research Institute Library and the University of Calgary Image Centre have been collaborating on a project to digitize and archive a selection of historical and contemporary gambling-related publications. The project requires that digital copyright permissions be secured before items are digitized and made available online in their entirety through a digital library. The software used to run this digital library is called DSpace and it is hosted at the University of Calgary. As of May 2004, there were more than 239 items included in the collection. It can be accessed from the Institute’s DSpace “community”.
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    DSpace @ UCalgary.ca -- Promotional Brochure
    (2002) Wylie, Heather; Westell, Mary E.
    This is a draft version of the brochure that was created at the University of Calgary in order to promote our Institutional Repository. It includes basic information about the repository, reasons why scholars would want to create a repository, and appropriate contact names. Also, it includes an outline of how to navigate our repository, and search for research.
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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.