1. The Importance of an Institutional Repository: A Faculty Perspective Brian Kennelly, Modern Languages & Literatures Brian Kennelly

2. Faculty Capacity Generate original scholarship and disseminate knowledge Keep up in field, do research and share with others Principal information contributor End user Stakeholder Change agent

3. In a nutshell Tangible and meaningful indicators of quality Professional visibility and awareness Intellectual GPS

4. Bridge Beyond Ivory Tower Scientific, societal, and economic relevance of research activities Wider audience Foster and/or expand society’s role in peer review

5. Access & Dissemination

6. Increased readership (new audiences) Increased research Diminished divides Location and retrieval Higher citation rates Quantifiable results

7. Collegiality & Interdisciplinarity

8. Collegiality Academic and institutional silos Global networking Interdisciplinary research and discovery

9. Vis-A-Vis “Traditional” Scholarly Publishing

10. Difficult publishing climate Strained publishing model Response to crisis

11. Two philosophical camps New ecosystem Stimulate innovation Weaken monopolistic impact of current system

12. Economic benefit Junior colleagues Page number restraints Digital university press/es

13. Tenure, Promotion, and Assessment Easy access Thinner binders Secure Evidence

14. Teaching and Advising Student (e-)portfolios Senior (e-)projects Class notes Lectures

15.  Enhances library’s relevance to faculty

16. Challenges Copyright permissions/clearances Publisher resistance Insecurity Fear of plagiarism Fear by association “Publishing”?

17. Possibilities Versions Collaborative authoring Syllabi, notes, outlines, lectures, images, illustrations Reward structure Readership?

18. Success Attitudinal factors Essential infrastructure

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