Hutchinson | Brief Reviews of Books and Products: Rethinking institutional repositories: Innovations in management, collections, and inclusion | Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication

"A January 2024 Times Higher Education blog entry1 reinforces the increasingly common belief that although institutional repositories (IR) were originally developed to further goals of the open access(OA)movement,weak contentrecruitmentand an emphasis onOA journal funding have eclipsed much of the role of IRs in this area. This sentiment opens the door for a book like Rethinkinginstitutional repositories, which addresses new roles IRsare beginning to assume in order to remain relevant. Written by librarians, archivists, and related staff at U.S. research libraries, the book’s 22 chapters are divided into sections on management, new content types, and diversity and inclusion in repository operation. Many IR managers will recognize editor Josh Cromwell as the organizer of the Southern Mississippi Institutional Repository Conference...."