Tag: institutional repository

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Don’t Take My Word for It

I know, I know, I’m always yakking about how CUNY needs an institutional repository to help faculty and others make their scholarly and creative works open access.  But it’s not just me, and it’s not just about CUNY — here’s a broader, bolder statement from Peter Suber (Harvard) and the Darius Cuplinskas (Open Society Foundations):

Every institution of higher learning should ensure that peer-reviewed versions of all future scholarly articles by its faculty members are made open-access through a designated repository that captures the institution’s intellectual output.

“Every institution of higher learning.”

Read more at Open Access to Scientific Research Can Save Lives.  (And yes, the article does give a fantastic concrete example of how open access can save lives.)

Of course, “Open access saves lives” is the flip side of “Closed access means people die.”

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Of CUNY, By CUNY, For CUNY

I have presented “Of CUNY, By CUNY, For CUNY: Why We Need an Institutional Repository” (or a variation on the theme) several times, to several hundred members of the CUNY community.  (I’ve even linked to it several times already on this blog, but a good message is worth repeating…)

If you haven’t seen me in action yet, you can get a good sense of my message by reading through the slides:

If you can put these slides to good use on your campus, please do so!

Also, here’s an accompanying handout — please feel free share this, too!

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Have 10 Minutes?

If you have 10 minutes today, I strongly recommend watching this video from the University of California about their proposed university-wide open access policy.  Universities with institutional repositories need policies like this to make sure their repositories can serve their intended purpose. Here at CUNY, we’re working on creating a repository — pretty soon, we’ll need to start working on a policy as well!

Also worth a look is the new guide from the Harvard Open Access Project: Good Practices for University Open Access Policies.  If you don’t have time to read the whole thing, at least scan the Talking about a Policy page — the right page for the phase we’re in here at CUNY!