Modern digital scholarship requires faculty to navigate an increasingly complex research
and publication world. Liaison librarians are uniquely suited to assist faculty with scholarly …

Purpose “Scholarly Communication” is a frequent topic of both the professional and
research literature of Library and Information Science (LIS). Despite efforts by individuals (eg …

Promoting an institutional repository (IR) to both faculty and end-users can be challenging.
We surveyed academic libraries with an IR in Texas, and asked both library administrators …

INTRODUCTION Although librarians initially hoped institutional repositories (IRs) would
grow through researcher self-archiving, practice shows that growth is much more likely …

Two and a half decades into the open access (OA) movement, rapid changes in scholarly
communication are creating significant demands on scholars. Today's scholars must wrestle …

INTRODUCTION While faculty votes to establish open access (OA) policies leverage one
particular campus-level democratic mechanism in the name of advancing scholarly …

Institutional repositories, or digital archives, are a fundamental part of an academic
institution in higher education. Saint Mary's institutional repository plays an integral role in …

Student affairs records are essential components in addressing basic functionalities in the
university environment as they serve diverse purposes such as the life of a student on the …

Institutional repositories (IRs) remain a crucial tool for promoting, displaying, and
encouraging open access (OA) to scholarly research. Institutional repository webpages can …

Graduate students completing an electronic thesis or dissertation (ETD) may encounter
issues related to copyright, either their own or that held by others, at several points …