Institutional Repositories Emerging Frontiers for Policy Making Karla

Institutional Repositories, Emerging Frontiers for Policy Making Karla Hahn Director of the Office of Scholarly Communication The Association of Research Libraries

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Diffusion Rates for Household Products Table source: Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas Annual Report 1996.

Image source: Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas Annual Report 1996.

International survey of IR development

US Institutional Repositories Lynch, Clifford A. , and Joan K. Lippincott. "Institutional Repository Deployment in the United States as of Early 2005. " D-Lib Magazine 11, no. 9 (2005): http: //www. dlib. org/dlib/september 05/lynch/09 lynch. ht ml.

The other adopters! Foster and Gibbons. 2005. D-Lib Magazine. Figure 1. Perceived fit between DSpace features and needs from faculty/researcher perspective. Green indicates understanding while red indicates misunderstanding, lack of understanding, or disinterest.

The faculty perspective: § § § Language Time Copyright

Defining the Institutional Repository “… a university-based institutional repository is a set of services that a university offers to the members of its community for the management and dissemination of digital materials created by the institution and its community members. It is most essentially an organizational commitment to the stewardship of these digital materials, including long-term preservation where appropriate, as well as organization and access or distribution. ” - Clifford Lynch

Policy “Never forget posterity when devising a policy. Never think of posterity when making a speech. ” - Robert Menzies, former Prime Minister of Australia

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The challenge § § Authors do not understand their rights Authors do not understand the options for exercising their rights in the process of disseminating their work § Publishers have often found it expedient to encourage authors to regard as pro forma the transfer all rights from an author to a publisher prior to publication § Right management practices are not consistent either among authors or among publishers § Authors consequently face great difficulties regarding • What, if any rights, they may have after publishing a work • What options they have in managing their copyrights

Peer review

New models for scientific works Real. Climate

Digital data

Commercialization and content control

Investment § Who pays?

Threats § § § Underinvestment Copyright over-management, under-management Commercialization

Opportunities