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September 07, 2008
Agents of Change in Scholarly Communication
In the article "Institutional Repositories: Faculty Deposits, Marketing, and the Reform of Scholarly Communication" (The Journal of Academic Librarianship, v.34, no.3, May 2008) Ronald C. Jantz and Myoung C. Wilson discuss their study investigating the current and potential roles of the academic library (and librarian) in the success of the institutional repository. The three objectives of Jantz and Wilson's study were to note the current faculty input into institutional repositories - divided according to academic department, to assess the ways in which institutional repositories are presented and marketed on library homepages and finally to explore the library's role as a "change agent" in scholarly communication. The study finds the actual use of institutional repositories by faculty appears to be pretty dismal, thereby limiting its value as an alternative to traditional scholarly communication. However Jantz and Wilson offer reasonable ideas for increasing the use of institutional repositories, with academic libraries and librarians playing influential roles in facilitating that change. Posted by: Deborah Job
Posted by colldev at September 7, 2008 04:58 PM