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Why Archive in an Institutional Repository?

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Why Archive Scholarship in an Institutional Repository (IR)? 

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Open access (OA) archiving showcases scholarship and benefits faculty, departments, colleges, 

and the university, including its partners, students, the UNLV Libraries, and the global research 

community. Here are some significant benefits: 

• The UNLV institutional repository (Digital Commons) adheres to the Open Archive 

Initiative (http://www.openarchives.org/) ensuring that archived materials are 

accessible across a global network of interoperable institutional repositories and are 

available to metadata harvesters such as (OpenDOAR: http://www.opendoar.org/), 

providing greater visibility to scholarship. 

• Repositories offer powerful parallel distribution channels that complement print 

publishing and can ensure the greatest expediency and accessibility for scholarly work. 

• Submitting scholarly materials to the UNLV repository asserts copyright ownership and 

allows authors to freely, legally, and perpetually link to their research output, a one‐

stop shop for peer‐reviewed research. Creative Commons licensing may be employed to 

allow users to build upon your work or use freely.  Otherwise, the default is fair use. 

• Graduate/undergraduate student research (theses/dissertations/projects) is 

underutilized‐OA highlights their scholarship and is a useful career tool. 

• Citation impact: Articles deposited in repositories are cited more frequently, more 

visible, accessible, and receive greater impact. Google and the Digital Commons 

software work together to maximize visibility of archived materials.  

• Publisher copyrights may allow scholarship in an IR (65% of publishers do), but may not 

permit posting on a personal webpage: http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/ 

• Self‐archiving allows researchers to refer colleagues and students to the most accessible 

versions of their work. Download statistics are emailed to authors every month.  

• Repositories are constructive responses to inflationary journal subscription prices and 

the injustice of buying back scholarly communication for which institutions have already 

paid by authors, editors, and reviewers freely giving their content, expertise, and time. 

• Photocopying costs, journal publishing lag times, and interlibrary loan services 

associated with traditional print output can be significantly diminished. 

• Researchers can submit materials without cost to their research unit, center, division, 

department, or college, as the Library proxy‐archives and maintains the repository.  

• Users may sign up for an email alert/RSS feed to be notified of archived research.  

Any questions, please contact: Marianne Buehler, Urban Sustainability Librarian/IR 

Administrator, marianne.buehler@unlv.edu or 702.895.2248. 

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