Institutional Repositories: Ensuring Your IR is Populated, Useful and Thriving

Opening Interview & Conversation

An interview with Lynch will lay the foundation of where we are now -- current roles for IRs in context of the academic institution and the academic library offering access to varied set of materials as well as areas of unfolding concern. Some of his current thinking appears in this 2016 interview with Rich Poynder on topic of institutional repositories. Attendees may also find his January 2017 College & Research Libraries guest editorial, Updating The Agenda for Academic Libraries and Scholarly Communications, to be of interest.

Open Source Repositories and the Future of Fedora

Open source repositories preserve and provide access to the world's intellectual, cultural and scientific heritage. Fedora is a flexible, extensible, open source repository platform used in a wide variety of institutions including libraries, museums, archives, and government organizations. Fedora 4 introduces native linked data capabilities and a modular architecture based on well-documented APIs and ease of integration with existing applications. Fedora is not just open source; it is community source software. New features and functionality are implemented using a community-driven design and development process where stakeholders contribute use cases, development effort, testing, and validation. In order to keep the community engaged with the project, we host a variety of workshops, training camps, and user group meetings throughout the year and around the world. Over the next year, the Fedora community is focused on several major objectives, including support for Fedora 3 to 4 migrations and aligning with modern web standards.

Specific Needs and Concerns Associated with Data Repositories

The Purdue University Research Repository (PURR, https://purr.purdue.edu/) is a research collaboration and data management solution for Purdue researchers and their collaborators. PURR supports researchers throughout the data management process with data management planning resources, project management tools, data publication and archiving, and publication impact metrics. Although it is an integral part of the Libraries Research Data Unit, PURR is also a collaboration between libraries, IT, and the research office. This presentation will provide an overview of PURR’s current services and future plans as well as a peek behind the scenes at the collaborative efforts that make PURR’s services possible.

Repository Integrations: Connecting technologies and communities

Symplectic has been integrating with a range of repository platforms for a number of years. Predating the wide adoption of APIs for repositories, the first generation of repository tools requires a custom connector to allow the repository to integrate with Symplectic Elements. However, the growth in API development over the past few years has opened up exciting opportunities for integrations between repositories and research information management systems or CRISs.

The team at Symplectic have been building on these opportunities to create their next generation of repository integrations. Based on client feedback from previous integrations, they have been working with a new philosophy for repository integration. This centres on maximising data reuse and is based on a core principle that a repository must first be available as a data source. Working with clients around the world across an array of repository platforms, the development of repository integrations continues to be an iterative process, working with the repository communities and the available repository APIs.

This presentation will explore some of the challenges we have encountered as we have worked to achieve repository integrations across numerous repository platforms and will discuss how we work with the respective repository communities to overcome them. It will also consider future opportunities for repository integrations and data reuse.

Enhancing the Institutional Repository through Publisher Partnerships to Increase Indexing, Linking, and Displaying of Faculty Published Materials

This presentation will give an overview of the progress of an institutional repository (IR) pilot project as it expands into an initiative that promotes innovative, community-wide approaches that facilitate diverse access to publicly funded research. Phase I of the pilot included a collaboration between the University of Florida (UF) Institutional Repository (IR@UF) and Elsevier that can deliver published versions of UF-authored articles to IR@UF users. Building on this project, UF and the Clearinghouse for Open Research of the United States (CHORUS) have engaged additional universities, research institutions, government labs and publisher members to increase participation in the project. Phase I began with comprehensive identification of articles by UF authors using API-delivery of Science Direct metadata; Phase II deploys full-text searching with links to published articles or full text view options for users with diverse access status. The Phase II CHORUS project expands these efforts, engaging a wide range of institutions and publishers, all with the shared delivery of real-time compliance dashboards, enhanced metadata deposition, full text indexing and linking and streaming content within an institution's IR.

Beyond the manuscript: Using IRs for alternative content types

The goals of the Northwestern Medicine digital repository, DigitalHub, are to preserve all of the intellectual works created by the Northwestern Medicine scholarly community, to enhance the visibility of Northwestern Medicine scholarship, and to promote its authors by enabling discovery and accessibility of these works by the international scientific community. With DigitalHub researchers can open up their scholarship to the greater community, create collections to organize their scholarship, track the use of their scholarship over time, store their scholarship for the long term, and maximize visibility of their scholarship.  NOTE: The DOI for this presentation is: http://dx.doi.org/10.18131/G3VP6R

Promoting Discovery in the Institutional Repository

Institutional repositories (IR) contain a wealth of information. Discovery systems, from Google Scholar to library discovery systems such as Summon and Primo, provide an opportunity to increase the visibility of such data if indexed. However, IR metadata often lacks standards or is insufficient to make the material truly discoverable. In this presentation, Christine Stohn will discuss the issues involved in indexing this type of data. She will also examine possible solutions for the future, as well as opportunities to promote IR data beyond searching in exploration paths by providing a serendipitous discovery experience.

Responding to the Challenges: Moving Forward and a Wish List