Task Force for Implementing
UIC Central Online Repository

Mail to lib-dspace@uic.edu

Final Report of the Task Force (August 5, 2005)

Meeting Minutes

Charge

The charge of the Task Force is to develop a plan to establish an institutional repository at UIC, implement a pilot project, evaluate and modify the project, and then recommend a process for large-scale implementation.

Objectives

Guidelines for establishing an institutional repository at UIC
A list of issues that need resolution before a plan can be implemented, including legal, copyright, financial, and technological concerns
Guidelines for the types of intellectual output that the repository should and should not contain
Guidelines for who can deposit material and who can access it
A strategy to obtain support from the UIC community and to promote the repository within the UIC community

Selected Web Sites

SPARC Institutional Repositories
http://www.arl.org/sparc/IR/IR_Guide.html

UIUC White Paper on proposed IR
http://www.library.uiuc.edu/administration/it/reports/IDSWhitePaper.pdf

University of Oregon's Scholars' Bank
http://libweb.uoregon.edu/catdept/irg/

IRTF Listserv Archives
http://listserv.uic.edu/archives/irtf.html

D-Space at MIT
http://dspace.org/introduction/index.html
MIT business plan for DSpace
http://libraries.mit.edu/dspace-mit/mit/mellon.pdf

University of California's eScholarship
Repository, part of the California Digital Library
http://repositories.cdlib.org/escholarship/

Cornell University's Digital Libraries Research
http://www.infosci.cornell.edu/dl/index.html

SHERPA : Publisher copyright policies & self-archiving
http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo.php
This site provides the policies of publishers on pre/post prints. Use this site to find a summary of permissions that are normally given as part of each publisher's copyright transfer agreement.

D Pubs
http://dpubs.org
The libraries at Cornell and Pennsylvania State are now enhancing and extending DPubS to create an open source, general purpose platform that will aid institutions of higher education and research in managing and disseminating the intellectual efforts of scholars and researchers. Several partner institutions will begin testing an alpha version of DPubS in fall 2005, with beta testing scheduled for early 2006 and final release in mid-2006.

Joint Information Systems Committees (JISC), UK
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=pub_repositories
Briefing papers on digitial repositories for higher education.

Meeting Minutes

• March 2, 2004
• March 9, 2004
• March 17, 2004
• March 24, 2004
• April 1, 2004
• April 14, 2004
• April 29, 2004
• May 13, 2004
• June 1, 2004
• SPARC Webcast-June 10
• June 15, 2004
• July 6, 2004
• July 21, 2004
• July 27, 2004
• August 18, 2004
• September 21, 2004
• October 12, 2004
• November 23, 2004
• December 7, 2004

• January 7, 2005
• January 25, 2005
• February 1, 2005
• February 22, 2005
• March 7, 2005
• March 15, 2005
• March 29, 2005
• April 12, 2005
• May 5, 2005
• May 25, 2005
• June 7, 2005
• June 21, 2005
• July 12, 2005
• August 2, 2005
• August 23, 2005