1. River Campus Libraries UR Research: University of Rochester’s Institutional Repository Susan Gibbons Asst. Dean, Public Services & Collection Development University of Rochester sgibbons@library.rochester.edu

2. In the beginning…  2000 Provost meets Stevan Harnad  “faculty e-archive”  Pilot  Specifications  DSpace Federation

3. Content  “Faculty-sponsored” Conference papers Theses Dissertations Senior papers E-Journals Post-prints Technical Reports White Papers Images Videos Patents Music scores

4. Modifications  Usability testing  Standard for anything we put on the website  Graphic designer

5. Out-of-the-box interface

6. Many other great interface redesigns

7. Modifications  If you build it, they might not come… why?  Work-practice study  Anthropologist  Align IRs with existing faculty work practices

8. Findings Too impersonal… “institutional” repository?

9. Findings Copyright is too complicated- don’t have enough time

11. More information January 2005 D-Lib Magazine article by Nancy Fried Foster & Susan Gibbons UR Research- University of Rochester’s institutional repository https://urresearch.rochester.edu Sherpa Publishing Copyright Policies & Self-archiving database http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo.php