The Institutional Repository Beyond Faculty Works: Archives Online
Presentation Description
The institutional repository (IR) was developed to provide a home for faculty produced publications. The Digital Commons platform was created as a means to deliver publicly supported research in an Open Access environment. Smaller teaching institutions focused on the Boyer Model of scholarship tend to produce fewer traditional faculty publications appropriate for deposit in an institutional repository than do their R-1 counterparts. Repositories that cannot rely on consistent numbers of faculty deposits can lose administrative backing if they cannot find a supporting role for the IR. This case study explores how Fort Hays State University has added collections from the University Archives to the FHSU Scholars Repository for the purpose of providing better access to digitized archival collections, increasing traffic to the IR, and raising institutional awareness of the IR.
The Institutional Repository Beyond Faculty Works: Archives Online
The institutional repository (IR) was developed to provide a home for faculty produced publications. The Digital Commons platform was created as a means to deliver publicly supported research in an Open Access environment. Smaller teaching institutions focused on the Boyer Model of scholarship tend to produce fewer traditional faculty publications appropriate for deposit in an institutional repository than do their R-1 counterparts. Repositories that cannot rely on consistent numbers of faculty deposits can lose administrative backing if they cannot find a supporting role for the IR. This case study explores how Fort Hays State University has added collections from the University Archives to the FHSU Scholars Repository for the purpose of providing better access to digitized archival collections, increasing traffic to the IR, and raising institutional awareness of the IR.