About the CARL Institutional Repositories Program
An institutional repository (IR) is a digital collection of an organization’s intellectual output. Institutional repositories centralize, preserve, and make accessible the knowledge generated by academic institutions. IRs also form part of a larger global system of repositories, which are indexed in a standardized way, and searchable using one interface, providing the foundation for a new and innovative services.
Institutional repositories benefit both the institution and its scholars by raising the institutional profile while also bringing broader dissemination, increased use, and enhanced professional visibility of scholarly research. A growing number of research institutions around the world are implementing institutional repositories.
The Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) began the Institutional Repository Project in 2003 in order to provide support for Canadian implementers of institutional repositories (IRs). Since then, most CARL members have built an IR and the technical issues with implementing IRs have, for the most part, been addressed.
In 2007, CARL formed a working group in order to determine the next steps
for the CARL Institutional Repository Program. The Working Group has defined
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vision, priorities and specific projects for the following two years.
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