SPARC has published the comprehensive SPARC Institutional Repository Checklist & Resource Guide, by Raym Crowe. There is also a PDF version. From the Introduction: "Institutional repositories contribute as a logical extension of a university's core mission and as a channel through which to increase institutional visibility. However, they can achieve far greater results in synergy with a network of interoperable open access repositories. Further, they build on a growing grassroots faculty practice of self-posting research online....Moreover, they can be introduced by reallocating existing resources, usually without extensive technical development....In sum, institutional repositories offer a strategic response to systemic problems in the existing scholarly journal system --and the response can be applied immediately, reaping both short-term and ongoing benefits for universities and their faculty and advancing the positive transformation of scholarly communication over the long term."
Posted by
Peter Suber at 1/31/2003 05:31:00 PM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
