Institutional repositories: A review of content recruitment strategies
eekilcer@gmail.com's bookmark collection 2012-10-07
Summary:
"In 2003, the Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) launched the CARL Institutional Repository Project...to implement institutional repositories at several Canadian research libraries...At the time of writing this paper thirteen CARL members had IRs up and running and five more are in the pilot/planning stages...Given the vision and the potential, it is surprising and disappointing that Institutional Repository collections have generally grown more slowly than proponents had anticipated...In the winter of 2006, CARL conducted a review of content recruitment strategies being undertaken internationally to support its members in populating their IRs. The review involved a scan of the current literature, private communication with IR
implementers, and a public call for input on several of the listservs. A range of content recruitment strategies was identified through the review and placed into six categories: general promotional activities, mediated depositing services, content harvesting, researcher bibliographies, usage information, and self-archiving policies."