[LIS-Forum] A Guide to Institutional Repository Software

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Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2003 17:25:30 -0400
From: Dr. Ramesh C. Gaur <rcgaur at tifr.res.in>

Apologies for cross-posting

Universities and research centers throughout the world are actively planning
the implementation of institutional repositories. Such planning entails policy,
 legal, educational, cultural, and technical components, most of which are
interrelated and each of which must be satisfactorily addressed for the
repository to succeed.

The Open Society Institute intends this document to help organizations with
one facet of their repository planning: selecting a software system that best
satisfies an institution's needs. An institution's system needs will be driven
by its content policies and by the procedures required to implement those
policies. A well designed and carefully planned repository program can
function well with any of the systems discussed here-but none of these systems
can help a poorly designed or inadequately planned repository succeed.
Therefore, where necessary, the notes to the System Feature & Functionality
Table (Section 2.2) attempt to explain the relevance of system technical
features in the context of a repository's broader planning, design, and policy
framework

To view the guide, please see:
        http://www.soros.org/openaccess/software/

        best wishes,

Ramesh

PS. Please feel free in forwarding to other professional colleagues


Ramesh C. Gaur, Ph.D
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