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Beyond Institutional Repositories

Beyond Institutional Repositories
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Author(s): Laurent Romary (INRIA and Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Germany)and Chris Armbruster (Max Planck Society (Max Planck Digital Library), Germany)
Copyright: 2010
Volume: 1
Issue: 1
Pages: 18
Source title: International Journal of Digital Library Systems (IJDLS)
DOI: 10.4018/jdls.2010102703

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Abstract

The current system of so-called institutional repositories, even if it was a sensible response at an earlier stage, may not answer the needs of the scholarly community, scientific communication and accompanied stakeholders in a sustainable way. However, having a robust repository infrastructure is essential to academic work. Yet, current institutional solutions, even when networked in a country or across Europe, have largely failed to deliver. Consequently, a new path for a more robust infrastructure and larger repositories is explored to create superior services that support the academy. A future organisation of publication repositories is advocated that is based on macroscopic academic settings providing a critical mass of interest as well as organisational coherence. Such a macro-unit may be geographical (a coherent national scheme), institutional (a large research organisation or a consortium thereof) or thematic (a specific research field organising itself in the domain of publication repositories).

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