1. The Promise of Institutional Repositories : Scholars’ Bank at the University of Oregon Carol Hixson Head, Metadata and Digital Library Services University of Oregon Libraries https://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/dspace/handle/1794/

2. https://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu

3. History  Initial Vision  Faculty content  Self-submission  Buy-in to open access model

4. First Eight Months

5. Cultural Challenges  Intellectual Property Concerns  Authenticity of Submissions  Concern over quality  Concern over control  Terminology  Technophobia

6. Technical Challenges  Submission template  Metadata  Version control and revision  User Interface  Preservation

7. Practical Challenges  Time  Money  Identification of content and communities  Acquisition of content

8. Strategies  Develop local context  Explain the global context  Get attractive content  Publicize  Improve the service

9. Local context

10.  Provide a general overview without jargon  Personalize the information  Answer questions of local interest  Build in redundancy  Provide varying levels of detail  Educate on issues and link to broader movement

11. Provide a general overview

12. Personalize the information

13. Questions of local interest

14. Build in redundancy

15. Varying amount of detail

16. Educate about issues

17. SHERPA http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo.php

18. Link to broader movement

19. Publicize  Promote anywhere and everywhere  Use subject specialists in the effort  Share success stories  Link to documents from the catalog  Work with known allies

20. Promotion

21. Use subject specialists

22. Share success stories

24. Link to materials From catalog

25. Improvements to the service  Full text  Provide use statistics  Modify the submissions template  Sub-communities  Create links between collections

26. Statistics

28. Further improvements to the service  Digitizing documents  Support and investigation of copyright  Implementing Creative Commons licenses  Modify the user interface and develop searching guides  Contribute further to code developments

29. Rethinking and Restructuring  Expand definition of “Scholarly output”  Faculty output  Individual and group work (journals)  Library collections  Electronic records of the University  Finding aids  Articles, presentations, etc.  Campus publications  Newsletters  Planning documents  Student works  Theses and dissertations  Special projects  Research interest groups  Miscellaneous

30. Type of material

31. Faculty output

32. Campus publications

33. Student work

35. Growth over time

36. Collaborative opportunities  Share information  http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~chixson/gwla-ir/  Share strategies  Develop federated search of our repositories  Develop shared collections

37. Contact information Carol Hixson Head, Metadata and Digital Library Services University of Oregon Libraries chixson@darkwing.uoregon.edu (541) 346-3064