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

2. 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

3. Techreports and DSpace Techreports: http://techreports.library.cornell.edu http://techreports.library.cornell.edu –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

4. DSpace’s Organizational Structure May be open or closed

5. CUL DSpace Server http://dspace.library.cornell.edu Sun Fire V480 Server @ 900 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

6. 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

8. Let’s Take a Look Search and Browse –http://dspace.library.cornell.edu/http://dspace.library.cornell.edu/ Now lets add a file –http://dspace-test.library.cornell.eduhttp://dspace-test.library.cornell.edu –It may look complicated, but it’s not.

9. 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 e-mail addresses –Workflow steps—approval process? Faculty, Staff and Researchers can send e-mail to: –dspace-admin-L@cornell.edu

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

11. 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 dcaps@cornell.edu or visit the DCAPS booth for information about services available to convert your content to a suitable electronic format. dcaps@cornell.edu