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This authoritative text will be a trusted reference for library directors implementing new IR programs or overseeing a maturing program, current professionals who find themselves with added IR responsibilities, and new librarians entering the job market. The Institutional Repository (IR) has become standard to the academic library in the past decade. In fact, some 5,000 are listed in open access directories. However, IR operations are anything but standard. You are not alone in your challenges, whether it's discovery of born digital content or policies for deposit and withdrawal. This resource gathers expertise to offer a comprehensive guide on contemporary institutional repository management. Readers will sharpen their understanding of such key IR topics as managing complexity task-by-task using a detailed breakdown of IR projects; six crucial elements every deposit policy should address; using the SHERPA RoMEO database to quickly locate publisher policies; policy development, community outreach, and open source software testing, illuminated through case studies; metadata basics for the non-cataloger; authority control for electronic theses, dissertations, and grey literature; workflow suggestions for small and mid-sized institutions; showcasing undergraduates' work with student peer-reviewed journals, photography, or theater performances; promoting faculty engagement with awards and recognition; and copyright fundamentals all staff who interact with the IR should know.

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[Finlay] has assembled a respected cadre of authors ... [This book] does a fine job of addressing key IR concepts and providing straightforward, real-world, successful examples of how IR provides a venue for an institution's scholarly publication both locally and globally. -- Technicalities Written for those new to the field and those seeking to understand institutional repositories better, this book provides the background needed for librarians new to the discipline to begin to understand the complexities of digital scholarship and institutional repositories. It also has enough variety to expand the knowledge of those who already have some experience in this discipline. -- Technical Services Quarterly

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Stephen Craig Finlay is the director of the library at Murray State College in Tishomingo, Oklahoma. Prior to this, he was the scholarly communication librarian at Indiana University South Bend, where he also taught information literacy. Finlay launched IU South Bend's institutional repository and online journal publishing initiatives, and also started the first funded open educational resources program in the Indiana University system. In 2014 he founded the Michiana (now ALI) Scholarly Communication Librarianship Conference, which, as of 2020, is still going strong as the only annual conference on scholarly communication librarianship. Finlay has published on a wide range of issues including bibliometrics, disciplinarity, scholarly communication education, and doctoral research in library and information science.

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