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Demystifying the Institutional Repository for Success

Marianne Buehler, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA

Chandos Information Professional Series

 - presents successful and creative marketing techniques of open access benefits and repositories useful to administrators, faculty, staff, and students
 - strategic campus and off-campus partnerships for garnering and archiving content, including metadata specialists, off-campus librarians, local/state collaborations, including case studies
 - specific tools for overall success of users in locating repository research (search engine optimization (SEO), analyzing Google Analytics), and more
 - data management, collaborations with faculty and creating a repository archiving plan for data sets

Institutional repositories remain key to data storage on campus, fulfilling the academic needs of various stakeholders. Demystifying the Institutional Repository for Success is a practical guide to creating and sustaining an institutional repository through marketing, partnering, and understanding the academic needs of all stakeholders on campus. This title is divided into seven chapters, covering: traditional scholarly communication and open access publishing; the academic shift towards open access; what the successful institutional repository looks like; institutional repository collaborations and building campus relationships; building internal and external campus institutional repository relationships; the impact and value proposition of institutional repositories; and looking ahead to open access opportunities.

Readership: Academic librarians, library managerial staff, scholarly communication practitioners, Library Information Science/Library Digital Programs, and library faculty/graduate students.

Approx. £49.50 / US$85.00 / €60.00

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About the author

Marianne A. Buehler is the Urban Sustainability Librarian, University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV). Prior to UNLV, she was the Manager of Publishing and Scholarship Services at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT). Marianne has garnered expertise in library technologies for over 20 years, including scholarly communication processes, managing institutional repositories, open access journal publishing, traditional/self-publishing, and copyright. Marianne publishes on copyright issues, open access publishing, and institutional repositories.

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Contents

Traditional scholarly communication and open access publishing: Why the change? Academic shift towards open access; The successful institutional repository: What it looks like; Institutional repository collaborations and building campus relationships; Building internal and external campus institutional repository relationships; Institutional repository impact and value proposition; Looking ahead to open access opportunities.