"An institutional repository is a recognition that the intellectual life and scholarship of our universities will increasingly be represented, documented, and shared in digital form, and that a primary responsibility of our universities is to exercise stewardship over these riches: both to make them available and to preserve them."
Clifford Lynch, 2003
Institutional repositories are at the core of "Green" Open Access.
Institutional repositories provide a way to challenge publisher monopolies and silos.
Institutional Repositories provide increased visibility for:
Institutional repositories provide:
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Two layers of licenses:
If you have never created an account in MARS, go to: library.gmu.edu/publishing/deposit.
If you have an account in MARS, email jwiering@gmu.edu to be added to the "Papers and Publications" collection in the University Libraries community.
Use the "Item Submission" form to:
After you "submit", the document goes into a review queue.
Once approved, you will receive an email with the "handle" for your article. This is the persistent URI for your document.
jwiering@gmu.edu
http://publishing.gmu.edu
Crow, Raym. “The Case for Institutional Repositories: A SPARC Position Paper.” ARL Bimonthly Report 223, 2002. http://works.bepress.com/ir_research/7.
Kennison, Rebecca, Sarah Shreeves, and Stevan Harnad. “Point & Counterpoint: The Purpose of Institutional Repositories: Green OA or Beyond?” Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication 1, no. 4 (September 27, 2013). doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.7710/2162-3309.1105.
Lynch, Clifford A. “Institutional Repositories: Essential Infrastructure for Scholarship in the Digital Age,” 2003. http://works.bepress.com/ir_research/27.
Rensbarger, Fran. “MARS Speeds Mason’s Move to Becoming a Major Research University,” March 3, 2005. http://mars.gmu.edu/handle/1920/39.
Suber, Peter. “Open Access: Six Myths to Put to Rest.” The Guardian, October 21, 2013, sec. Higher Education Network. http://www.theguardian.com/higher-education-network/blog/2013/oct/21/open-access-myths-peter-suber-harvard.
“Peter Suber, Open Access Overview (definition, Introduction).” Accessed September 16, 2015. http://legacy.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/overview.htm.