Scholarly Communication and Open Access: Repositories
Dissertation Publishing
Putting Dissertation Online Isn't an Obstacle to Print Publication, Surveys Find - The Chronicle of Higher Education: at CNI meeting in Washington, DC, Gail McMillan presented the results of her and her colleagues' study of acceptance in science journals of papers by students who have an open access ETD.
OA and Dissertation Publishing Potential
Ramirez, M. L., Dalton, J. T., McMillan, G., Read, M., & Seamans, N. H. (2012). Do Open Access Electronic Theses and Dissertations Diminish Publishing Opportunities in the Social Sciences and Humanities? College & Research Libraries. Retrieved from http://crl.acrl.org/content/early/2012/04/05/crl-356
An increasing number of higher education institutions worldwide are requiring submission of electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) by graduate students and are subsequently providing open access to these works in online repositories. Faculty advisors and graduate students are concerned that such unfiltered access to their work could diminish future publishing opportunities. This study investigated social sciences, arts and humanities journal editors' and university press directors' attitudes toward ETDs. The findings indicate that manuscripts which are revisions of openly accessible ETDs are always welcome for submission or considered on a case by case basis by 82.8% of journal editors and 53.7% of university press directors polled.
OpenDOAR
- OpenDOAROpenDOAR is an authoritative directory of academic open access repositories. Each OpenDOAR repository has been visited by project staff to check the information that is recorded here. This in-depth approach does not rely on automated analysis and gives a quality-controlled list of repositories.
As well as providing a simple repository list, OpenDOAR lets you search for repositories or search repository contents. Additionally, we provide tools and support to both repository administrators and service providers in sharing best practice and improving the quality of the repository infrastructure. Further explanation of these features is given in a project document Beyond the list.
IR at UWinnipeg
- Winnspace (University of Winnipeg's IR)An institutional repository (IR) is a digital collection of an organization’s intellectual output. Institutional repositories centralize, preserve, and make accessible the knowledge generated by academic institutions. IRs also form part of a larger global system of repositories, which are indexed in a standardized way, and searchable using one interface, providing the foundation for a new and innovative services.
Search COPPUL IR's
Search IR's in Western Canada:
- Search COPPUL IR'sSearch across a set of COPPUL Institutional Repositories using Google Custom Search.