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Grinnell College has joined a group of other liberal arts colleges to test a digital institutional repository, a new kind of technology used to share student and faculty scholarship on-campus, across campuses, and world-wide. The availability of student and faculty work through such a repository – along with other works about the College or produced by College-affiliated individuals or groups – may provide models, inspiration, and stimulation for inquiry-based learning while showcasing the creative and scholarly achievements of our community.
Digital repositories are used at many colleges and universities worldwide. They do not substitute for traditional scholarly publication, but complement and enhance peer review and other scholarly review processes by making available to a wider audience student work, early versions of faculty scholarship (working papers, pre-prints), published versions when copyright arrangements permit, and the evidence and ancillary research materials – datasets, interview transcripts, documents, media – on which scholarship may be based (again, copyright permitting -- see the Grinnell College Copyright Policy at http://www.lib.grinnell.edu/research/copyright.pdf).
This Grinnell College repository is hosted by NITLE (the National Initiative for Technology in Liberal Education) and is intended as a small demonstration collection of student, faculty, and College works. Over the coming months, Grinnell faculty and students will discuss the role and importance of a repository and evaluate our options for ongoing repository services.
Key Questions for the Campus Community:
- Do you see value in making the scholarly and creative works of the College community available through a repository?
- What materials other than scholarly and creative works by members of the College community should be included in a repository?
- How should work be selected for the repository?
- For most repositories, world-wide availability is the default option. How important is it to be able to restrict access for some items to (for instance) just the Grinnell campus?
- How satisfied are you with the presentation of different formats (text, audio, images) in this repository?
This demonstration collection has been implemented by the Grinnell College Libraries and Office of Instructional Technologies. Comments and questions are welcome and may be directed to Fred Hagemeister, Curricular Technology Specialist, or Richard Fyffe, Librarian of the College.
Common Questions About Repositories
Digital Repositories at Liberal Arts Colleges and Elsewhere
Long-term Preservation of Digital Files: Challenges and Opportunities
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