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A working paper proposing four (instead of two) repository kinds, including the subject-based repository, research repository, national repository system and institutional repository.

"Long-term preservation and stewardship of scientific data and research-related information are vitally important to future science and scholarship. Scientific data archives can offer capabilities for managing and preserving disciplinary and interdisciplinary data for research, education, and decision-making activities of future communities of users. Meeting the requirements for a trusted digital repository will help to ensure that today's collections of scientific data will be available in the future. A continuing self-assessment of a long-term archive for interdisciplinary scientific data is being conducted to identify the additional steps needed for it to become a trustworthy repository. Recommendations include a strategy for collaborative organizational sustainability, a model for submission and workflow to ingest interdisciplinary scientific data into a repository, and a plan for facilitating intra-organizational transfer between repositories."

The Repositories Support Project has released the Survey of Academic Attitudes to Open Access and Institutional Repositories-An RSP and UKCoRR Initiative.

Enables uploading of datasets with research articles - connection between scholarly pub repositories and data repositories

In 2013 HathiTrust will be moving to a new cost model that will distribute the costs of sustaining the repository in a way that more accurately reflects the benefits each partner receives from the preserved collections. The new model will also allow institutions to join HathiTrust that wish to participate in the curation and management of the repository in return for specialized services, but do not necessarily have digital content to contribute

The DCC has produced a report that provides a snapshot of the state of the art of preservation and curation in an institutional repository context in early 2010, noting areas of recent and current research and development.

From a study conducted by Purdue University librarians, with respect to repository data collection of faculty output, identifying skill sets needed for the process.

Bibliometric and usage-based analyses and tools highlight the value of information about scholarship contained within the network of authors, articles and usage data. Less progress has been made on populating and using the author side of this network than the article side, in part because of the difficulty of unambiguously identifying authors. I briefly review a sample of author identifier schemes, and consider use in scholarly repositories. I then describe preliminary work at arXiv to implement public author identifiers, services based on them, and plans to make this information

Two UMass librarian authors review the literature and study of online respositories dedicated to particular subjects and find study,and guidelines lacking for such entities. They point out: "subject repositories are frequently cited as highly successful scholarly communication initiatives, especially in relation to institutional repositories."

from the eco4r project, features a review of "enhanced publications" in repositories, data standards for supporting the use of these publications, best practices and examples from Bielefeld University Library repositories

Harvard took a DASH toward opening access to its scholarship this week (Aug. 31). DASH stands for Digital Access to Scholarship. It's an open-access repository of scholarly works administered by the University Library. So far, more than 350 members of the

Unheard Voices: Institutional Repository End-Users 12/26/09 (preprint for C&RL)

Arthur Sale of Tasmania offers some suggestions on how to increase deposit to academic repositories

Describes a tool that streamlines parts of the scholarly publishing process, conceived by researchers at Lund University, to make articles more easily accessible on institutional repository

Dorothea Salo outlines a framework for understanding the complexities of research data and researchers' needs, with emphasis on digital libraries and institutional repositories and data standards and management characteristics and requirements.

highlights a number of initiatives in the Universities of Edinburgh and Oxford, showing how research data repository infrastructures can be effectively realized through collaboration and sharing of expertise.

provides access to a comprehehsive set of software packages easing the exploration, modification, comparison, and extension of data mining and information visualization algorithms. Diverse software packages were bundled into learning modules. Access to a large-scale data repository, extensive compute resources, and a growing set of references are provided as well. It is our hope that the community will adopt this resource to foster Information Visualization education and research.