An institutional repository is a digital repository specific to a single institution that contains diverse types of digital works that deal with the disciplines associated with that institution.
Version three of the Institutional Repository Bibliography is now available from Digital Scholarship as an XHTML website with live links to many included works. It primarily includes published articles, books, and technical reports. A limited number of conference papers and unpublished e-prints are also included. All included works are in English. It is available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License. http://digital-scholarship.org/irb/irb.html The bibliography has the following sections (all sections have been updated): 1 General 2 Country and Regional Institutional Repository Surveys 3 Multiple-Institution Repositories 4 Specific Institutional Repositories 5 Institutional Repository Digital Preservation Issues 6 Institutional Repository Library Issues 7 Institutional Repository Metadata Issues 8 Institutional Repository Open Access Policies 9 Institutional Repository R&D Projects 10 Institutional Repository Research Studies 11 Institutional Repository Software 12 Electronic Theses and Dissertations in Institutional Repositories Appendix A. Related Bibliographies Appendix B. About the Author The following recent Digital Scholarship publication may also be of interest: Transforming Scholarly Publishing through Open Access: A Bibliography (a paperback, a PDF file, and an XHTML website) http://digital-scholarship.org/tsp/transforming.htm For reviews of Digital Scholarship publications, see: http://digital-scholarship.org/announce/reviews.htm Translate (oversatta, oversette, prelozit, traducir, traduire, tradurre, traduzir, or ubersetzen) this message: http://digital-scholarship.org/announce/irb_en_3.htm -- Best Regards, Charles Charles W. Bailey, Jr. Publisher, Digital Scholarship http://digital-scholarship.org/ Digital Scholarship Chronology http://digital-scholarship.org/cwb/dschronology.htm