Innovating for Impact: The Next Evolution of Library Consortia

peter.suber's bookmarks 2018-02-18

Summary:

"One of the most common approaches is centralized consortium support or management for member library digital repository platforms, which allows institutions to showcase and disseminate student and faculty scholarly and creative works. A precursor to the broader scope of current institutional repositories is seen in shared digital collections of theses and dissertations (ETDs), with OhioLINK’s ETD Center (created in 2001) one of the best examples of a library consortium-supported ETD repository. Other regional consortia or state university systems (e.g., Texas Digital Library, California Digital Library) support similar shared ETD repositories. Most consortia-supported digital repositories now focus on creating institutionallybranded portals (rather than shared collections) that include faculty publications, student scholarship, and other unique and locally-created or curated content. Digital repositories are supported by different types of academic library consortia and library systems. For example, the California State University (CSU) system’s Digital Library Services offers centrally-supported repository services called ScholarWorks to all CSU libraries, while the British Columbia Electronic Library Network (BCELN)--a consortium that includes members ranging from small technical colleges to large research universities--provides a shared repository platform that offers individually branded portals and federated search across all member repositories. Both CSU and BCELN use open source platforms (CSU is currently migrating to Samvera/Hyrax, while BCELN uses Islandora), leveraging shared, centralized support to configure and manage software that would not necessarily be feasible (or desirable) for individual members to maintain on their own. The growth in academic library engagement with open access publishing is also driving interest in consortia support and management of platforms that facilitate formal publishing processes beyond the simple dissemination of a repository or digital asset system...."

Link:

https://digitalcommons.du.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1364&context=collaborativelibrarianship

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Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » peter.suber's bookmarks

Tags:

oa.new oa.libraries oa.consortia oa.green oa.libpub oa.repositories.consortial oa.data oa.oer oa.repositories

Date tagged:

02/18/2018, 12:48

Date published:

02/18/2018, 07:48