Theory and practice of online archives sponsored by universities for dissemination of faculty and university research, with special emphasis on University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

1. Institutional Repositories Erik Desmazieres, illustration for Jorge Luis Borges’ “The Library of Babel” Nebraska Library Association Lincoln, NE October 6, 2011

2. Paul Royster Coordinator of Scholarly Communications UNL Libraries University of Nebraska-Lincoln Manager of the institutional repository: http://digitalcommons.unl.edu

5. A document's page looks like this: Community Series Title Download button Authors Comments (citation & copyright) Abstract

13. The Permissions Patchwork Authors (and IR managers) are confused by labyrinth of publisher permissions policies

15. OA content by permissions status (at UNL)

17. I. How content gets in

19. Content Acquisition Model #1: “ If you build it, they will come.” W. P. Kinsella, Field of Dreams (a baseball fantasy) ....

21. Content Acquisition Model #2 Tom Sawyer paints a fence (by persuading others it's fun)

22. What you may get:

29. Collecting 101 ? Honey Vinegar

30. II. How content goes out

32. More than 75% of Open-Access content is downloaded each month

33. Monthly Contents & Downloads

36. III. How you can use it

39. IV. Why Are We Doing This ?

44. Raising the profile of our university We furnished 3.5 million "Nebraska-branded" documents last year. (90% of them went off-campus.)

45. Extending the "reach" of our institution We delivered " N -branded" research to more than 180 countries. (Half of our graduate students come from overseas.)

47. 10% of our traffic comes from within the state of Nebraska (pop. 1.7 million). About 7% of site traffic comes from Lincoln, NE

54. QUESTIONS ?