Western Research Repository  

These are links to resources that are not strictly repositories, but include aspects of scholarly communication. Many include aspects of social media.

The Western Research Repository is a proposed digital center to preserve and disseminate the research and scholarship of the Western community.  This repository would make Western's scholarly output globally accessible from a single online location.

• Demonstrate our value as a public institution to the community, region and state.
• Assist faculty with tenure and promotion by providing access to their scholarship and research.
• Satisfy government mandates to make federally funded research available to the public.
• Foster visibility of Western’s research and scholarship nationally and internationally.
• Facilitate scholarly communication, exchange of knowledge and faculty student collaboration.

• Previously published articles
• Unpublished materials such as conference presentations
• Data sets
• Western journals
• Teaching portfolios
• Music
• Images
• University publications

ARL: A bimonthly report: special double issue on university publishing. (2007). no. 252/253

Bell, Suzanne; Foster, Nancy Fried; Gibbons, Susan. (2005). Reference librarians and the success of institutional repositories. Reference Services Review 33(3), 283-290

Digital Humanities Manifesto 2.0, on the website of UCLA’s Digital Humanities & Media Studies

Hahn, Karla L. Talk about talking about new models of scholarly communication. The Journal of Electronic Publishing, 11(1)

Howard, Jennifer. Digital Repositories Foment a Quiet Revolution in Scholarship  Chronicle of Higher Education. (2010)  June 13, 2010.

Johnson, Richard K. (2002). Institutional repositories: Partnering with faculty to enhance scholarly communication. D-Lib Magazine, 8(11)

Kirchner, Joy. (2009). Scholarly communications: planning for the integration of liaison librarian roles. Research Library Issues 265, 22-28

Royster, Paul. (2007). Publishing original content in an institutional repository. Serials Review

Schulenburger, David. (2008). Keynote, SPARC Digital Repositories Meeting

Walters, Tyler O. (2007). Reinventing the library-how repositories are causing librarians to rethink their professional roles. portal: Libraries and the Academy 7(2), 213–225

Jeanne Armstrong
Jeanne.Armstrong@wwu.edu
(360) 650-7667

Margaret Fast
Margaret.Fast@wwu.edu
(360) 650-3174

Robert Lopresti
Robert.Lopresti@wwu.edu
(360) 650-3342

Peter Smith
Peter.Smith@wwu.edu
(360) 650-3175