Rethinking Institutional Repositories: Innovations in Management, Collections, and Inclusion

Over the past two decades, institutional repositories (IRs) have become commonplace in academic libraries. Library workers have grown accustomed to making the case for why their institution needs an IR, but the more fundamental question of “how” remains: How should libraries use their IRs most effectively to benefit their institutions and communities? Rethinking Institutional Repositories: Innovations in Management, Collections, and Inclusion aims to expand on existing scholarship around establishing a repository and increasing faculty submissions by highlighting a variety of approaches to administering IRs, increasing the variety of content, and broadening participation. In three sections: IR Management IR Projects IR for All Chapters explore examples and plans for your IR including migration; engaging remotely; gray literature; student scholarship; partnering with university presses; creating sustainable historical community partnerships; conducting a baseline diversity, equity, and inclusion assessment; automated accessibility audits; captioning; and promoting non-traditional works. The ideas, scholarship, and examples in Rethinking Institutional Repositories can inspire and reinvigorate how you engage with the repositories at your institutions.

Table of Contents:
Editor’s Introduction Josh Cromwell Section 1. IR Management Chapter 1. Envisioning the Future of a Mature IR: A Midlife Assessment of ScholarWorks@UMassAmherst Erin Jerome, Thea Atwood, Melanie Radik, and Rebecca Seifried Chapter 2. Institutional Repository Migration: Opportunity for Change Dana Laird, Mary Jo Orzech, Pam O’Sullivan, and Ken Wierzbowski Chapter 3. Haste Makes Waste: Why Careful Planning of an IR Now Will Save Time and Trouble Later Kaleena Rivera Chapter 4. Consortia and Institutional Repositories: Challenges and Opportunities Jeanne Pavy Chapter 5. Engaging with the IR Remotely Whitney R. Johnson-Freeman and Megan Scott Chapter 6. Up to Code: Lessons Learned in Evaluating and Improving Legacy IRs Frances Chang Andreu Chapter 7. I Don’t Have the Time or Really Understand What This Is! Examining Faculty’s Motivation to Use (or not) Montclair State University’s Institutional Repository Karen Ramsden and Darren Sweeper Section 2. IR Projects Chapter 8. Integrating the Institutional Repository into Archives and Records Management Practices: A Case Study of Digital Curation Strategies at the University of Toledo Christine Rigda and Arjun Sabharwal Chapter 9. Preserving Podcasts in Institutional Repositories Valerie M. Collins and Erik A. Moore Chapter 10. Gray Literature in the Institutional Repository: Partnership Between the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries and Two Textile Societies Sue Ann Gardner and Paul Royster Chapter 11. Building an Institutional Repository with Student Scholarship Scott D. Bacon Chapter 12. Partnering with North American University Presses to Open and Preserve Humanities and Social Sciences Scholarship Alicia Pucci and Annie Johnson Chapter 13. Creating Sustainable Historical Community Partnerships through Institutional Repository Collections Natalie Bishop and Holly Mabry Chapter 14. From the Ground Up: Collaborative Efforts on the Development of a New IR and Growth of an Existing Archive Christopher Deems and Matt Francis Section 3. IR for All Chapter 15. Conducting a Baseline Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Assessment of Institutional Repository Content Rebekah Kati Chapter 16. What Are We Missing? Automated Accessibility Audits for Institutional Repositories Dave Rodriguez and Bryan Brown Chapter 17. Captions for All: Finding a Sustainable Captioning Workflow Abigail Norris-Davidson and Michelle Emanuel Chapter 18. Connecting Research to Policy and Practice: A Case Study of a White Paper Collection in an Institutional Repository Angela Hackstadt Chapter 19. Tackling Accessibility in the IR: A Case Study in Leveraging Remote Student Workers Elyse Fox and Daina Dickman Chapter 20. Amplifying Historically Marginalized Voices Through Open Pedagogy Rachel Fleming and Carolyn Runyon Chapter 21. Let’s Say Yes: Considerations and Impact of Using Institutional Repositories to Promote Non-Traditional Works Heather Hankins and Chelsee Dickson Chapter 22. Hook, Line, and Sinker – How to Build DEI in STEM-Focused Institutional Repositories by Putting Student Research First Anne Marie Casey and Debra Rodensky About the Authors

About the Author :
Josh C. Cromwell is the scholarly communications manager at The University of Southern Mississippi. He has worked with Aquila, the university’s institutional repository, since its launch in January 2012 and has been the administrator of Aquila since July 2013. In addition to his responsibilities with the IR, he is a member of the University Libraries Copyright Taskforce and he oversees the Open Textbook Initiative, a joint venture of the Libraries and Provost’s Office to encourage the adoption of open educational resources on campus. He is also the lead organizer of the Southern Miss Institutional Repository Conference, which attracts IR managers, staff, and other librarians from across the country.