Digital Repositories for Scholarly Output Marcy E. Rosenkrantz Director of Library Systems

What is an Institutional Repository? A place for the storage and retrieval of informal publications, datasets, technical reports, course materials, etc. Material in the repository can be searched, browsed and retrieved by others. An electronic archive, if so designed Cornell has 2 institutional repositories: Techreports and DSpace

Techreports and DSpace Techreports: –Supporting software developed at Cornell, initially at CS with further development at the Library for a variety of purposes. DPubS DSpace software developed at MIT library –New functionality contributed by DSpace Federation members –Open source code

DSpace’s Organizational Structure May be open or closed

CUL DSpace Server Sun Fire V MHz, 4 GB memory, 2-36GB internal disks, 2 power supplies Dual Fibre Channel network adapter communicating with a SAN (‘tier 3’ storage) Backup and Recovery system in place

Current Communities and Collections CU East Asia Papers –Dance in the No Theater Dance in the No Theater, Volume 3, Dance PatternsDance in the No Theater, Volume 3, Dance Patterns Cornell Theses –Communities for Physics and Bio and Environmental Engineering Open and closed collections for Masters Theses and PhD Dissertations Open collections for Professional Degree Reports in BEE –More planned for Jan. 2004

Let’s Take a Look Search and Browse – Now lets add a file – –It may look complicated, but it’s not.

Want to start a Community in DSpace? Things to think about –Name, customization (content, logo, etc.) –Collection names and customization –Groups—who do you want to be able to add Digital Objects to each collection—names and addresses –Workflow steps—approval process? Faculty, Staff and Researchers can send to:

Upcoming Features Full text searching Sub-communities—finer grained organization Possibly Metadata for bitsreams Local administration of communities

Born digital or not… If you or your center or department has material like annual reports, course material, conference proceedings that are not in an electronic format contact or visit the DCAPS booth for information about services available to convert your content to a suitable electronic format.