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INTERNET REVIEWS: OPEN ACCESS INSTITUTIONAL REPOSITORIES

BY JENNIFER A. BARTLETT

HEAD OF W.T. YOUNG LIBRARY REFERENCE SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY LIBRARIES

earching for unpublished or obscure promotion of their own institutions’ digital research material is problematic at best. Say assets. you’re a librarian on the hunt for a hard-to- find technical report or dissertation from a Although IR platforms can be built from the scholar at a particular institution. You’ve ground up by in-house programmers, open- checked all the usual sources to no avail. How source software packages such as DSpace wonderful it would be if the target institution (http://www.dspace.org) and hosted a system in which its scholarly output (http://www.eprints.org) are also popular, as and research were readily available. The well as full-service, hosted solutions including research would live on a well-organized, stable SimpleDL (http://www.simpledl.com), and platform able to handle various file formats for Digital Commons from Berkeley Electronic images, audio, video, and data. There would Press, or “” (http://digitalcommons. be easy findability of items through search bepress.com). Several Kentucky colleges and engines such as Google and , universities have begun to make their own persistent URLs for stable access, and the institutional scholarship available through the research would be available on an open access bepress platform. basis. Enter the ! INSTITUTIONAL REPOSITORIES IN Broadly defined, an Institutional Repository KENTUCKY (IR) is an online maintained by a col- lege or university, research institute, academic consortia, or other organization for the pur- pose of preserving and providing access to the UKnowledge institution’s intellectual output. Materials University of Kentucky Libraries commonly included in these repositories are http://uknowledge.uky.edu electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs), Launched in 2011, UKnowledge now contains open access journal articles, and hundreds of master’s theses and doctoral dis- , conference proceedings, working sertations, thousands of articles, and hosts six papers, technical reports, lecture and course open access journals. The repository is brows- notes, administrative records, audio and video able by college, department, and research cen- recordings, and digital items (such as under- ter; subject area; and author. Another useful graduate work) that might not find a publish- feature of UKnowledge is the “SelectedWorks ing outlet elsewhere. Researchers Gallery,” a directory of many UK faculty and other researchers who have cho- Of course, researchers have been making sen to post biographical information and links materials such as these available via personal to their scholarship online. and institutional websites, blogs, and course management systems for some time. However, A particularly interesting project associated the lack of an organized system for collecting, with UKnowledge is a recent collaboration organizing, preserving, and providing access to with the University Press of Kentucky. digital content has long been a problem. As UKnowledge will provide full-text digital experts in information acquisition, evaluation, access to over 1,000 titles published by UPK, and access, librarians are increasingly front many of which have been out of print for and center in the design, maintenance and years. Over 600 books in subjects including 24 KENTUCKY LIBRARIES • VOLUME 79 • NUMBER 1 INTERNET Appalachian studies, literature, history, and all titles in the Studies in Romance Languages REVIEWS series are currently available to UK faculty, TopSCHOLAR CONTINUED staff, and students; another 400 additional Western Kentucky University Libraries titles are slated to be added in 2015. The http://digitalcommons.wku.edu collection may be browsed at http:// A major benefit of IRs is their capacity to uknowledge.uky.edu/upk. include often-unpublished (and thus invisible) undergraduate scholarship and research. Of course, other institutional repositories WKU Libraries’ TopSCHOLAR has chosen to hosted at Kentucky colleges and universities include a link to the Undergraduate Research using Digital Commons as an IR platform Commons, a showcase of undergraduate work have the same overall look and feel as at WKU and other institutions worldwide UKnowledge, and offer similar faculty and that use bepress as an IR platform. The staff research materials. However, each insti- Commons is also accessible directly at tution’s unique selection and organization of http://undergraduatecommons.com. research and additional content illustrate the flexibility available with these systems.

ScholarWorks@Bellarmine W.L. Lyons Brown Library, Bellarmine University Encompass http://scholarworks.bellarmine.edu Eastern Kentucky University Libraries Bellarmine’s IR emphasizes student scholar- http://encompass.eku.edu ship by offering separate sections for under- EKU’s Encompass includes sections on Special graduate and graduate student work. Collections & , Student Scholarship (graduate capstone projects, honors theses, Institutional repositories at other colleges and ETDs, and undergraduate research), and universities can generally be found by visiting University Publications such as sports media the home institution’s website and searching guides, yearbooks, undergraduate and graduate for “repository.” Additional guides for finding catalogs, and alumni magazines. specific IRs are listed below.

DISCIPLINE-ORIENTED INSTITUTIONAL REPOSITORIES Other interesting and useful institutional repos- itories making open access research publica- ePLACE: Preserving, Learning, and tions and data available to the public are host- Creative Exchange ed by national and international government, B.L. Fisher Library, Asbury Theological scientific and research organizations. The fol- Seminary lowing are some of the more popular IRs: http://place.asburyseminary.edu A unique feature of ePLACE is its offering of full-text online fiction and non-fiction books, papers, journals, and other materials from First Fruits Publishing, a Christian publishing Smithsonian Research Online (SRO) house. Unlike the University Press of Smithsonian Libraries Kentucky materials in UKnowledge, many of http://www.research.si.edu these publications are freely available to the SRO contains published research from schol- public from off-campus. The “ECommons” ars and staff working in the Smithsonian’s 20 section includes recordings of ATS chapel museums and nine research centers, including services, selected class lectures, and digitized the National Air & Space Museum, the materials including academic catalogs. National Portrait Gallery, the African Art Museum, and more. The Research Bibliography section contains publication citations (some of which lead to the full-text on publisher sites), and a Digital Repository offers full-text online editions. Currently, the SRO contains over 73,000 items. 25 KENTUCKY LIBRARIES • VOLUME 79 • NUMBER 1 INTERNET Centers. Materials include articles, books, pub- lished book chapters, conference and workshop REVIEWS NASA Scientific and Technical Information presentations, data sets, images, and more. CONTINUED (STI) Program http://www.sti.nasa.gov The STI is the largest collection of aerospace research in the world, and currently contains over 4 million bibliographic records and full- text documents. Science and technical National Agricultural Library Digital research materials are collected from all Collections NASA centers and sources worldwide. The http://naldc.nal.usda.gov/naldc/home.xhtml NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) Not primarily an institutional repository, the provides access to not only citations, but also NAL serves as a major national source for images, videos and a wide variety of full-text agricultural information. Part of its mandate is online materials including conference and also to provide stable and long-term access to meeting papers, patents, research reports, and United States Department of Agriculture technical videos. Collections include citations research. The collections are searchable and and reports from the National Advisory browsable. For USDA-funded peer-reviewed Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) period research, see the “Journal Articles, USDA from 1915 to 1958; citations and documents Authors, Peer-Reviewed” section. Other inter- created or sponsored by NASA from 1958 to esting materials include Fruit and Vegetable the present; and citations and links to images, Market News reports, the Historical Gypsy photos, movies, and videos from the discon- Moth Publications collection, the Rural tinued NASA Image eXchange (NIX). Development Publications collection, and the USDA Plant Inventory.

FINDING INSTITUTIONAL REPOSITORIES AND OPEN ACCESS MATERIALS Although there is currently no definitive The World Bank Open Knowledge directory of institutional repositories, the fol- Repository lowing directories offer searchable and brows- https://openknowledge.worldbank.org able lists by criteria including type of organi- Launched in 2012, the World Bank’s OKR is zation, country, platform, and subject area: the world’s largest source of open access devel- opment knowledge and research, with nearly OpenDOAR: The Directory of Open half its users in developing countries. Content Access Resources includes World Bank Group Annual Reports; http://opendoar.org all World Development Reports; journal arti- Maintained by the Centre for Research cles published in Oxford University Press’ Communications at the University of journals World Bank Economic Review and Nottingham, OpenDOAR currently lists over World Bank Research Observer; Policy Research 2600 academic open access repositories, each Working Papers; and more. one of which has been verified by project staff. The system allows users to search for repositories and their contents, as well as browse a and view statistics.

WHOAS: Woods Hole Open Access Server ROAR: Registry of Open Access https://darchive.mblwhoilibrary.org Repositories Managed by the Marine Biological http://roar.eprints.org Laboratory – Woods Hole Oceanographic Another registry of worldwide open access Institution, the WHOAS maintains and dis- repositories, ROAR offers a multi-faceted seminates scholarly and research-oriented work advanced search that allowing users to search from the Woods Hole scientific community, IRs by title, description, repository type, including not only Woods Hole, but also the country, subject focus, platform, and other Marine Biological Laboratory, USGS Science criteria. IR data from ROAR and Center for Coastal and Marine Geology, and OpenDOAR are also overlaid onto an inter- the International Association of Aquatic and active Google Map at the Repository 66 web- Marine Science Libraries and Information site, http://maps.repository66.org. 26 KENTUCKY LIBRARIES • VOLUME 79 • NUMBER 1 INTERNET Ranking Web of Repositories OAIster http://repositories.webometrics.info http://oaister.worldcat.org REVIEWS IRs are organized by geographic region, type of A service of OCLC, OAIster is a union cata- CONTINUED repository (universities, hospitals, business log of more than 30 million open access digi- schools and research centers), An especially tal resource records built by harvesting open interesting feature is the “Top Institutionals” access collections worldwide. Also, OAIster list, which ranks research-oriented repositories records are included in search results for according to a composite index measuring libraries using WorldCat Local and WorldCat their overall visibility on the web. Available Local “quick start.” in both English and Spanish, the service is maintained by the Cybermetrics Lab of the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), the largest public research Jennifer A. Bartlett organization in . [email protected]

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