Background Reading

The forum organizers have prepared the following reading list (in reverse-chronological order), which may be helpful in preparing for the discussion on November 10th (and 9th).

Q&A with CNI’s Clifford Lynch: Time to re-think the institutional repository? (Richard Poynder blog, Sept. 22, 2016)
http://www.richardpoynder.co.uk/Clifford_Lynch.pdf

More on the future of repositories – response to Richard Poynder (COAR, Sept. 28, 2016) https://www.coar-repositories.org/news-media/more-on-the-future-of-repositories-response-to-richard-poynder/

Dialectic: The Aims of Institutional Repositories (T. Scott Plutchak blog, Sept. 15, 2016)
http://tscott.typepad.com/tsp/2016/09/dialectic-the-future-of-institutional-repositories.html

Promoting Open Knowledge and Open Science – Report of the Current State of Repositories (Confederation of Open Access Repositories, May 21, 2015)
https://www.coar-repositories.org/files/COAR-State-of-Repositories-May-2015-final.pdf

Institutional Repositories: Essential Infrastructure for Scholarship in the Digital Age (Clifford Lynch, February 2003)
http://www.arl.org/component/content/article/6/1229

The Case for Institutional Repositories: A SPARC Position Paper (Raym Crow, SPARC, 2002)
http://sparcopen.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/instrepo.pdf