The following articles are a sample describing various institutions’ and countries’ experiences. See also the page on various institutions’ deposit Policies.
Australia
De-unifying a digital Library, Arthur Sale, University of Tasmania (2005)
Australian Research Repositories Online to the World project and presentation by Geoff Payne (2004)
EPrints Repository at the Australian National University
Connecting the Dots Downunder: Towards An Integrated Institutional Approach To Digital Content Management, Cathrine Harboe-Ree and Andrew Treloar (2004)
Building an Institutional Research Repository from the Ground Up: The ARROW Architecture Experience, Andrew Treloar (2004)
eScholarship@UQ University of Queensland testbed program for the APSR
Canada
CARL institutional Repositories Online Resource Portal (Canadian Association of Research Libraries); includes an excellent repository set-up guide (2002)
The comprehensive Queen’s Institutional Repository Portal (2005)
Holland
Open Access Research in Holland (2005)
The Dawning of the Dutch Network of Digital Academic REpositories (DARE): A Shared Experience, by Annemiek van der Kuil and Martin Feijen (2004)
United Kingdom
RCUK proposed position on improving access to research outputs (2005)
Wellcome insists on open access: As of October 2005, all new grant recipients will be required to deposit papers with PubMed Central
University of Southampton goes open access (2005)
Wellcome Trust position statement in support of open access publishing; see also Open Access and research publishing (2005)
UK Science and Technology Committee Tenth Report into institutional repositories (2004)
Filling Institutional Repositories: Practical strategies from the DAEDALUS Project by Morag Mackie, University of Glasgow (2004)
United States
Institutional Repositories: Essential Infrastructure for Scholarship in the Digital Age by Clifford A. Lynch (2003)
SPARC Institutional Repository Checklist & Resource Guide by Raym Crow (2002)
Institutional Repositories by Roy Tennant (2002)
The Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography by Charles W. Bailey (2005) includes a section on Repositories, E-Prints and OAI
Other
A Guide to Institutional Repository Software from the Budapest Open Access initiative (2004)
Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting
Choosing Software for an Institutional Repository (pdf) DeRidder, Jody (2004)
