Utah Digital Repository

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Utah Digital Repository
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What is it?

• A LSTA funded project from your library name
  and the Utah Academic Library Consortium.
• Projects goal is to preserve and make
  scholarship freely available for students,
  faculty, and community members to use.

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What gets deposited?

• Published scholarly articles, working papers,
  conference presentations, lectures, multimedia
  files, images, undergraduate honors projects, and
  more.
• Also can include institutional history materials
  such as campus publications, newsletters, meeting
  minutes, and more.

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Digital Repository Advantages

• Positions institution at the forefront of the
  growing open access movement

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Benefits of Open Access

• Open access materials are cited with greater
  frequency, leading to increased visibility and
  intellectual capital for the institution.
• Open Access is not incompatible with traditional
  ways of publishing - most academic journals allow
  authors to archive a version of the articles they
  publish.

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Promotional Opportunities

• Provides a showcase of scholarly activities that
  can be used to promote institution to
• Other faculty and scholars
• Grant funding agencies
• Potential students
• Local and state government
• Community members
• Donors

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Benefits for Students

• The repository can provide a way to showcase
  student research projects, undergraduate honors
  theses, and more

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Savings

• The digital repository saves on costs since it is
  built on the backbone of previous UALC
  digitization efforts, like the Mountain West
  Digital Library.
• An investment in a repository represents an
  investment in the future - researchers will be
  able to study institutions scholarly output
  and have new opportunities to study institutional
  history materials.