Ļć½¶Ö±²„Institutional Repository preserves, promotes work of university faculty and students
Contact: James Carskadon
STARKVILLE, Miss.āĻć½¶Ö±²„ās Institutional Repository helps broaden the accessibility and impact of scholarship produced by the Ļć½¶Ö±²„community.
Launched in 2016 and managed by Ļć½¶Ö±²„Libraries, the institutional repository showcases and preserves the work of Ļć½¶Ö±²„faculty, staff and students. Ļć½¶Ö±²„Libraries faculty and staff members provide guidance about sharing and preserving scholarly research, data and university archives through the repository.
āThe purpose of the IR is to preserve and make accessible any scholarship thatās produced at the university by faculty, students and staff,ā Ļć½¶Ö±²„Libraries Associate Professor Claudia C. Holland said. āItās not limited to text-based content. Weāre also interested in images, music, video and data sets. You name it, weāll take it. We want to make our communityās scholarship and creative works discoverable and easily accessible.ā
Julie D. Shedd, Ļć½¶Ö±²„Libraries coordinator of digital initiatives and web services, stated, āItās a great way to have your work seen by not only the general public, but also your colleagues at Ļć½¶Ö±²„and elsewhere. The IR can open up new avenues for collaboration, and itās a good entryway for undergraduate and graduate students to get their work out there.ā
The Institutional Repository was recently enhanced to provide better platform stability and usability. Although there are submission guidelines, Shedd emphasized that if it is something āby, for or about MSU,ā it probably has a place in the Institutional Repository.
As more researchers shift from subscription-based to open publishing models, Ļć½¶Ö±²„Libraries staff are available to help them navigate copyright and licensing issues. Submissions to the Institutional Repository use a licensing structure by which the creator allows others to freely download and share their copyrighted works. Licensing is the crux of success for any open repository, Holland said.
āFaculty are really busy, so the library is here to help in any way we can to encourage deposits, make the deposit happen and then promote the scholarship produced by our community in whatever way we can,ā Holland said.
For more on the Institutional Repository, visit . For questions, contact Shedd at iradmin@msstate.edu or Holland at cholland@library.msstate.edu.
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