Document Type

Book Chapter

Original Publication Date

2016

Journal/Book/Conference Title

Making Institutional Repositories Work

First Page

3

Last Page

14

Comments

Book chapter from Making Institutional Repositories Work (Charleston Insights in Library, Archival, and Information Sciences), Burton B. Callicott, David Scherer, Andrew Wesolek (eds), Purdue University Press, 2016. Available for purchase at http://www.thepress.purdue.edu/titles/making-institutional-repositories-work.

ISBN-13: 978-1557537263 ISBN-10: 1557537267

Date of Submission

November 2015

Abstract

Discusses selection of a locally hosted, open-source system (DSpace/Fedora) versus a cloud-hosted, proprietary system (Digital Commons), it is important to note that these examples are merely illustrative. Libraries have a range of choices for repository software that includes open source and proprietary in any number of support environments, and exemplary repositories are flourishing on a variety of systems, both open source and proprietary. This chapter focuses on the differences between proprietary and open-source solutions, but also demonstrates how and why libraries choose a repository system. In writing about this process, we realized that it was important to acknowledge that there are two different audiences for this chapter: those who may just be starting out with building a repository at their institution, and those with an established repository who are considering a platform change. Thus, this chapter addresses the challenges and opportunities of platform selection in both circumstances.

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© The Author(s) 2015. This is the authors' version of a work that was accepted for publication in Making Institutional Repositories Work (Charleston Insights in Library, Archival, and Information Sciences), Burton B. Callicott, David Scherer, Andrew Wesolek (eds), Purdue University Press: 2016. The final publication is available at http://www.thepress.purdue.edu/titles/making-institutional-repositories-work

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