Canadian Repositories Community of Practice August Call – From Campus to Community Researchers: Evolving the Role of Institutional Repositories
Date: Wednesday, August 27, 2025
Time: 1:00pm – 2:00pm ET
This session kicks off a new Article Release Party! series, hosted by the Canadian Repositories Community of Practice. To get the most out of the discussion, attendees are encouraged to read Advancing the Dissemination and Preservation of Community-Based Research Products in Institutional Repositories ahead of time. To suggest a future article, contact Steering Committee Chair Priscilla Carmini at .
Institutional repositories have traditionally functioned as online platforms for scholarly work by university-affiliated researchers. However, their potential to preserve and share a wider range of works created alongside community-based research partners remains underutilized. This session invites participants to reimagine institutional repositories as dynamic, inclusive platforms that foster collaboration between academic institutions and the communities they engage with. Attendees will learn about findings from a recently published study exploring how community-based researchers perceive repositories and how these perceptions align with current services and opportunities for growth. The session will conclude with an opportunity for discussion where participants can share how their repositories are currently supporting community-based research, voice concerns about broadening access and services, and consider how initiatives like the Community Scholars Program might enable these shifts.
Presenter: Robyn Hall, Scholarly Communications Librarian, MacEwan University
Robyn Hall is Scholarly Communications Librarian at MacEwan University. She has presented extensively on ways that repositories can facilitate access to diverse research materials.
The presentation portion of this session will be recorded.