Introduction
Welcome to the resource: An Introduction to the Library’s Institutional Repository for Scholarly Communications. This notebook was created by Sumayyah Jewel, a library science master’s student and processing archivist at the Leonard Cohen Family Trust, and Jennifer Beamer, the Head of Scholarly Communication and Open Publishing Services at the Claremont Colleges, California.
We created this resource because we are passionate about Open Access (OA) Institutional Repositories (IRs) and their role in academic libraries. Historically, OA IRs have been important to libraries as one of the main ways to support and change the system of scholarly communication. Our objective is to educate library science graduate students and early career librarians about and increase their awareness of OA IRs.
After engaging with this resource, we hope learners will:
- Gain an understanding of Open Access Institutional Repositories and their roles and relationships in academic libraries,
- Understand and articulate the contents of IRs, and
- Gain additional knowledge of external stakeholders and supporters of OA IRs within the larger community of scholarly communications.
We suggest that learners have some experience or knowledge of the system of academic scholarly communications, specifically the western scholarly publishing system. Below are some articles providing background on these topics for optional pre-reading.
Pre-Reading:
Association of College and Research Libraries. (n.d.). Scholarly Communication Toolkit. https://acrl.libguides.com/scholcomm/toolkit
Asadi, S., Abdullah, R., Yah, Y., & Nazir, S. (2019). Understanding institutional repository in higher learning institutions: A systematic literature review and directions for future research. IEEE Access, 7, 35242-35263. DOI 10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2897729 https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel7/6287639/6514899/08635464.pdf
Fyfe, A., Coate, K., Curry, S., Lawson, S., Moxham, N., & Røstvik, C. M. (2017). Untangling academic publishing: A history of the relationship between commercial interests, academic prestige and the circulation of research. Discussion Paper. University of St. Andrews, St. Andrews. DOI 10.5281/zenodo.546100 http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/19148/1/UntanglingAcPub.pdf
Larivière, V., Haustein, S. and Mongeon, P. (2015). The oligopoly of academic publishers in the digital era. PLoS One, 10(6): e0127502. DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0127502 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0127502
