I cannot claim to be an expert on institutional repositories
and their
history but the first time I became aware of them was from a
presentation by
Ann Wolpert one the originators of DSpace. It was my
understanding then and
it is my understanding now that for some involved in the IR
movement the
purpose was to provide a service to faculty. The DSpace
mission from one of
the sites reads:
DSpaceT is a free, open source software platform that allows
research organizations to offer faculty and researchers a
professionally managed searchable archive for their digital
assets. DSpace focuses on simple access to these assets, as
well
as their long-term preservation.
It is my understanding that DSpace development was in
progress by
2000.
In 2002 a very different definition was proposed by Raym
Crow in
his SPARC position paper - see
http://www.arl.org/sparc/bm~doc/ir_final_release_102.pd
f. The
definition of IRs set out in his abstract is very different
and
speaks of reforming scholarly communication in line with the
SPARC agenda.
My picture is that SPARC have attempted to hi-jack an agenda
which was faculty-centred into one which is library-centred,
some
libraries that is. The mandates proposed are only necessary
because faculty persistently refuse to fit in with this new
agenda which does not represent their needs or wishes.
Anthony Watkinson
----- Original Message -----
From: "Barbara Birenbaum" <bbirenbaum ucla.edu>
To: <liblicense-llists.yale.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2007 3:45 PM
Subject: NIH mandate - institutional repositories
>I am an MLIS student at UCLA. I am currently working on
a paper on
> institutional repositories. I understand from some of
my readings
> that the reality of the institutional repository has
moved in another
> direction from the concepts of both the OA model of
access and the
> SPARC model of encouraging alternative methods of
scholarly
> publication. Will the NIH mandate, if it is signed
into law, move the
> institutional repository back to one or both of its
prior purposes or
> will those concepts remain just a part of the broader
scope of the
> present repositories? I would really appreciate
hearing the list
> members' thoughts on this.
>
>
>
> Barbara Birenbaum
>
>
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