IRs and scholarly communication

Starting to prepare for an ARL/ACRL Institute on Scholarly Communication workshop. This evening, I read a 2005 article written by Richard Fyffe and Scott Walter on the use of existing programs to communicate with research faculty on scholarly communication issues. As one example, the authors describe the information presented to the PFF program at Kansas, including the availability of institutional and discipline repositories.

The article also refers to a KU IR item, The Digital Difference: Responsible Conduct of Research in a Networked World. This handbook deals with a number of research and intellectual property issues; I was most interested in the repository discussion, that focused on freeing the research faculty member from managing the archive process and on the durable identifier component of the service.