The IR Today: A Necessary Campus Investment? October 23rd, 2012 Jean-Gabriel Bankier President and CEO bepress Digital Commons

Increasing number of libraries launch IRs Years Number of IRs worldwide

“They have resources that the rest of us do not have.” Why are they launching IRs?

The short answer is not the right answer “They have resources that the rest of us do not have.”

IRs have expanded well beyond high-research institutions n = 231 institutions using Digital Commons 10/15/2012

Funding has extended beyond the library Illinois Wesleyan University University of Southern Mississippi University of Maine

Support from the Office of Research

Support from the President and Provost

Support from the University & the Academic Division --Excerpt from Cedarville University Library Newsletter, November 2011 “This endeavor is consistent with the recent strategies developed by the University and the Academic Division to achieve the goals for Cedarville to become a voice of national influence, to increase awareness and reputation, and to elevate the visibility of the scholarship and credentials of its faculty and students.”

The numbers show that IRs deliver on visibility

Local use and readership

Global use and readership

Who uses this stuff anyway?

The IR is necessary to campus leadership because it delivers greater institutional visibility which is critical to the university Why does visibility matter? showcase centers of excellence, demonstrate the quality of the institution and its students educational experience Improve the quality of the educational experience raise awareness, prestige, and reputation

What is getting collected in IRs?

Digital is having a huge impact on academia Easier to manage and share  Easier to create and capture  increased expectation of access more being created and being lost

Numbers measure visibility, but can they measure impact on campus?

IR adoption at Univ of New Orleans after one year

IR adoption at Utah State after three years

IR adoption at Cal Poly after four years

The IR is necessary to the campus as a whole because it delivers greater institutional visibility which is critical to the university because there is a real need on campus to collect, organize and share the digital materials created there

The IR has found its function Libraries are using the IR to provide these necessary digital services to stakeholders across campus.

Serving these campus needs is good for the library too The IR helps the library in concrete ways to: Refashion the role and the value of the library within the greater institution Respond to changing scholarly and curricular needs of faculty and students Remain relevant and critical to the larger educational enterprise

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