1. The Role of a SUNY-wide Digital Repository in Improving Scholarly Communication John Schumacher SUNY Office of Library and Information Services

2. Overview Background Information Overview of Reform Movement Institutional Repositories SUNY-wide Repository Next Steps Librarians’ Roles Resources

3. Background Information Crises Convergence Change

4. Overview of Reform Movement Open Access Journals Self-Archiving Open Archives Initiative

5. Overview of Reform Movement Directory of Open Access Journals

6. Overview of Reform Movement Self-Archiving

7. Overview of Reform Movement Self-Archiving / Creative Commons Licenses

8. Overview of Reform Movement Open Archives Initiative

9. Overview of Reform Movement

10. Institutional Repositories “Digital collections capturing and preserving the intellectual output of a single or multi-university community” The Case for Institutional Repositories: A SPARC Position Paper

11. IR Movement/Infrastructure Dspace EPrints

12. Dspace

13. Dspace-Content

14. Dspace-Communities/Collections

15. SUNY-wide IR

16. SUNY-wide IR - Collections

17. Next Steps SUNY-wide Consultation/Committee  Content  Policies  Filling IR

18. New/Continuing Roles for SUNY Librarians Collection Development Faculty Liaison Metadata Copyright Digital Library Skills User Interface Development

19. What You Can Do Learn More Discuss Issues Reveal Content Committee Work Support Resolutions/Other Initiatives

20. Conclusion / Resources Directory of Open Access Journals http://www.doaj.org/ Publishers’ Policies - Self-Archiving http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo.php Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org/ Open Archives Initiative http://www.openarchives.org/

21. Conclusion / Resources OAIster http://oaister.umdl.umich.edu/o/oaister/ Dspace http://dspace.org/ SUNYConnect’s Dspace http://dspace.sunyconnect.suny.edu/

22. Conclusion / Resources Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) http://www.arl.org/sparc/about/index.html SPARC IR Email Discussion List https://mx2.arl.org/Lists/SPARC-IR/ Open Access Webliography http://www.escholarlypub.com/cwb/oaw.htm

23. Conclusion / Resources Open Access information/resources http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/o verview.htm

24. Note: this material represents partial fulfillment of requirements for a special work assignment away from the Office of Library and Information Services (April - September 2005)