What We Talk About When We Talk About Repositories

Correspondence concerning this column should be addressed to Diane Zabel, Schreyer Business Library, The Pennsylvania State University, 309 Paterno Library, University Park, PA 16802; e-mail: dxz2@psu.edu.

Mike Furlough is Assistant Dean for Scholarly Communications and Co-Director, Office of Digital Scholarly Publishing, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania.

References and Notes

1. OED Online, s.v. “Repository” (accessed May 7, 2009).
2. Jeffrey R. Young, “Superarchives Could Hold All Scholarly Output: Online Collections by Institutions May Challenge the Role of Journal Publishers,” Chronicle of Higher Education 48, no. 43 (July 5, 2002): A29–A30.
3. Raym Crow, The Case for Institutional Repositories: A SPARC Position Paper (Washington, D.C.: The Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition, 2002): 4.
   4. Andrea L. Foster, “Papers Wanted: Online Archives Run by Universities Struggle to Attract Material,” Chronicle of Higher Education 50, no. 42 (June 25, 2004): A37.
4. Dorothea Salo, “Unappetizing Metaphors,” online posting, Mar. 6, 2006, Caveat Lector (accessed May 7, 2009).
5. Clifford A. Lynch and Joan K. Lippincott, “Institutional Repository Deployment in the United States as of Early 2005,” D-Lib Magazine 11, no. 9 (Sept. 2005) (accessed May 7, 2009).
6. Throughout this essay, I use the term data broadly to refer to just about anything that is in digital form and of enduring interest to scholars or librarians.
7. Catherine Mitchell, “Lets Stop Talking About Repositories: A Study in Perceived Use-Value, Communication and Publishing Services,” (presentation at the SPARC Digital Repositories Meeting 2008, Baltimore, Maryland, November 18, 2008).
8. MIT Libraries, DSpace (Apr. 28, 2001), accessed through the Internet Archive Wayback Machine (accessed June 19, 2009).
9. Fedora Commons (accessed May 7, 2009).
10. See http://uspace.utah.edu and www.contentdm.com (accessed May 7, 2009).
11. The Berkeley Electronic Press (accessed May 7, 2009).
12. Though it considered contracting with the Harris Corporation to build a system based on Fedora, it ultimately awarded a contract to Lockheed Martin, which is designing the system on that basis of a variety of internally developed methods and applications. See www.archives.gov/era (accessed July 29, 2009).
13. HathiTrust: A Shared Digital Repository, www.hathitrust.org (accessed May 7, 2009).
14. The HathiTrust explicitly references this model when describing the architecture it is designing. Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems, Reference Model for an Open Archival Information System (OAIS) (Washington, D.C.: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 2002) (accessed June 19, 2009).
15. Sarah Higgins, “The DCC Curation Lifecycle Model,” The International Journal of Digital Curation 3, no. 1 (2008), 8 (accessed May 7, 2009). The diagram may also be found at www.dcc.ac.uk/docs/publications/DCCLifecycle.pdf.
16. See the University of Michigan Research Offices documentation on Compliance with NIH Access Policy, www.drda.umich.edu/policies/federal/nihpub.html (accessed July 26, 2009)
17. See www.lib.virginia.edu/digital/collections (accessed July 26, 2009).
18. Karla Hahn, Research Library Publishing Services: New Options for University Publishing (Washington, D.C.: Association of Research Libraries, 2008) (accessed May 7, 2009).
19. See Public Kowledge Project: Open Journal Systems, and DPubs: Digital Publishing System (accessed July 29, 2009).
20. Hahn, Research Library Publishing Services.
21. See Illinois Digital Environment for Access to Learning and Scholarship, Ethnography of the University Initiative (accessed July 26, 2009).
22. See Expert Voices, Recent Posts (accessed July 26, 2009).
23. Clifford Lynch, “The Shape of the Scientific Article in the Developing Cyberinfrastructure,” CTWatch Quarterly 3, no. 3 (Aug. 2007) (accessed May 7, 2009).
24. Sayeed Choudhury et al., “Digital Data Preservation for Scholarly Publications in Astronomy,” The International Journal of Digital Curation 2, no. 2 (2007) (accessed May 7, 2009).
25. Dorothea Salo has quite effectively written about the failure of institutional repository programs, attributing much of it to a failure of vision and leadership that results in a poor alignment of resources with the program goals. See Dorothea Salo, “Innkeeper at the Roach Motel,” Library Trends 57, no. 2 (2008): 98–123.
26. Johanna Drucker, “Blind spots: Humanists Must Plan Their Digital Future,” Chronicle of Higher Education 55, no. 30 (Apr. 13, 2009): B6.

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