1. Institutional Repositories: The Promises of Tomorrow
Greg Tananbaum
January 22, 2009

2. Overview Remind me why we want to do this?!?! The biggest challenges
IRs and the larger scholarly communication landscape
The big picture going forward

3. Remind me why we want to do this?!?!
IRs disseminate a wide range of scholarly information
IRs preserve a wide range of scholarly information
IRs can, and sometimes do, push the envelope

4. The Biggest Challenges
Faculty buy-in
Coordination across the institution
Coordination across institutions

5. IRs and the larger scholarly communication landscape
Just what is scholarly communication?
Scholarly communication refers to the formal and informal processes by which the research and scholarship of academics, researchers, and independent scholars are created, evaluated, edited, formatted, distributed, organized, made accessible, archived, used, and transformed.

6. IRs and the larger scholarly communication landscape
Scholarly communication parsed
Formal and informal processes
Research and scholarship of academics, researchers, and independent scholars
Creation, evaluation, editing, formatting, distribution, organization, accessibility, archiving, use, transformation

7. Scholarly Communication Quadrants
Formal
Presentation
Speeches
Seminars
Article
Monograph
Book
Permanent
Impermanent
Instant message
Text message
Twitter
Facebook status update
Blog post
Working paper
Preprint
Informal

8. The big picture going forward
Common deposit mechanism
Web 2.0
Mandates with teeth

9. …That’s all folks! Greg Tananbaum greg@scholarnext.com
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