Institutional repository software platforms at undergraduate libraries in the United States |
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| Authors: | Elías Tzoc |
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| Institution: | Miami University Libraries, Oxford, Ohio, USA |
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| Abstract: | For primarily undergraduate institutions, institutional repositories can become effective tools for communicating and showcasing faculty and student research, facilitating open access initiatives, or supporting new scholarly communication practices. Choosing the right software platform is crucial to the success of a repository initiative. The literature suggests that there are only two or three software platforms heavily used in undergraduate libraries. This article aims to give a landscape of the repository platforms used in sixty-seven undergraduate libraries in the United States in late 2013; it also includes the results of a short survey about current institutional repository software platforms and users/administrators’ satisfaction. |
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| Keywords: | Digital repositories institutional repositories repository management repository software repository sustainability undergraduate libraries |
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