Institutional repositories were created in 2003 as a strategic response to issues with scholarly journal publishing and to take advantage of opportunities in the digital environment. They allow universities to retain control over knowledge produced at their institutions by providing open access to scholarship. Repositories can enhance the curriculum by including student work and go beyond archiving to support collaboration and new forms of scholarly communication across disciplines. Challenges include gaining support, increasing awareness of repositories, and managing copyright issues. Solutions involve assessment, outreach to promote usage, and optimization of repositories. The future holds potential for including more community contributions and multimedia content to better support teaching and research.

1. INSTITUTIONAL
REPOSITORIES: PRESENT &
FUTURE

2. Knowledge
is capital at
universities

3. but
publishers
control
this capital

6. 2003: A strategic
response to the
opportunities of the digital
networked environment and
the problems in today’s
scholarly journal system
(Johnson)

7. Scholarship
is changing

8. But they can be
more than this

9. a mechanism for
ensuring access to
knowledge produced at
a college or university
(Yeates 96)

10. (Bankier and Smith 3)

11. new technologies
new ways of discovery
COLLABORATIVE
INTER-DISCIPLINARY

12. The
Repository
is for
everyone

13. students
should be
involved

14. coursework
goes down the
memory hole

15. Institutional
Repositories can
enhance
the curriculum

16. Institutional
repositories can be
Demonstrative

17. Institutional
Repositories
can be
Informative

18. Content
IS LOCAL
Discovery
Is GLOBAL

19. There are some
challenges:
BUY-IN
AWARENESS
USAGE
COPYRIGHT

20. “NJ-USA” is copyright (c) 2011 Anna Strumillo and made available under a
Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.0 license

21. SOLUTIONS:
assessment
outreach
optimization

22. What I’m Excited
About:
Community
Student groups
Multimedia
Google Scholar

23. Works Cited
Robin Yeates. "Over The Horizon Institutional Repositories" Vine 33.2 (2003): 96-99. ABI/INFORM Global, Proquest.
Web. 25 Jun. 2012.
R.K. Johnson. “Institutional Repositories: Partnering with Faculty to Enhance Scholarly Communication” D-Lib Magazine
(November 2002). Web. 25 Jun. 2012
Jean-Gabriel Bankier and Courtney Smith. "Repository Collection Policies" Australian Academic and Research Libraries
(2011). Available at: http://works.bepress.com/courtney_a_smith/7
Related Readings:
Jean-Gabriel Bankier, Connie Foster & Glen Wiley. “Institutional Repositories— Strategies For The Present And Future”.
The Serials Librarian, 56.1-4 (2009): 109-115
Karen Markey, et al. "Unheard Voices: Institutional Repository End-Users." College & Research Libraries 72.1 (2011): 21-
42. Library Literature & Information Science Full Text (H.W. Wilson). Web. 30 Apr. 2012
Zuccala, Alesia, Charles Oppenheim, and Rajveen Dhiensa. "Managing And Evaluating Digital Repositories." Information
Research 13.1 (2008): 7. Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts with Full Text. Web. 30 Apr. 2012.

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