Introduction What is an institutional repository? Why use an IR? Why D-Space Implementation Demonstration

Institutional Repositories “"...services that a university offers to the members of its community for the management and dissemination of digital materials created by the institution and its community members. It is most essentially an organizational commitment to the stewardship of these digital materials, including long-term preservation where appropriate, as well as organization and access or distribution." ” Clifford Lynch, Center for Networked Information

Why use an IR? Share, via open access, results of IIT's research, instruction materials Global awareness of IIT's scholarly output Long-term preservation of all forms of digital materials Single location for everything

Why use an IR? NSF and Patent data storage requirements Copyright Strategic Goal Overall Good

Why D-Space? Open Source Highly configurable & customizable Widely used Large community of developers Extensible

Implementation Basic setup: 4-6 weeks Hardware: $13,000 Customization & advanced configuration: 10-12 weeks Consultant: $3,000

D-Space @ IIT share.iit.edu Galvin channel via MyIIT account/submissions/community How it Works

D-Space and the CoA Master Theses Building Drawings/Plans CoA Lectures CTBUH Data File Sharing