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Date: Sat, 04 Jan 2003 13:13:46 -0500
From: Peter Suber <peters@earlham.edu>
To: september98-forum@amsci-forum.amsci.org
Subject: SPARC Institutional Repository Checklist & Resource Guide: Raym Crowe

SPARC has published the comprehensive SPARC Institutional Repository
Checklist & Resource Guide, by Raym Crowe.

http://www.arl.org/sparc/IR/IR_Guide.html

>From the Introduction: "Institutional repositories contribute as a
logical extension of a university's core mission and as a channel
through which to increase institutional visibility. However, they can
achieve far greater results in synergy with a network of interoperable
open access repositories. Further, they build on a growing grassroots
faculty practice of self-posting research online....Moreover, they can
be introduced by reallocating existing resources, usually without
extensive technical development....In sum, institutional repositories
offer a strategic response to systemic problems in the existing
scholarly journal system --and the response can be applied immediately,
reaping both short-term and ongoing benefits for universities and their
faculty and advancing the positive transformation of scholarly
communication over the long term."

Posted to http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/fosblog.html
by Peter Suber at 5:31 PM.

NOTE: A complete archive of the ongoing discussion of providing open
access to the peer-reviewed research literature online is available at
the American Scientist September Forum (98 & 99 & 00 & 01 & 02):

    http://amsci-forum.amsci.org/archives/september98-forum.html
                            or
    http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/index.html

Discussion can be posted to: september98-forum@amsci-forum.amsci.org

See also the Budapest Open Access Initiative:
    http://www.soros.org/openaccess

the Free Online Scholarship Movement:
    http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/timeline.htm

the SPARC position paper on institutional repositories:
    http://www.unites.uqam.ca/src/sante.htm

the OAI site:
    http://www.openarchives.org

and the free OAI institutional archiving software site:
    http://www.eprints.org/