[Dspace-general] FW:Look who?s talking about IRs---Provosts!

[Valorie Hollister]

Below is a recent article that may be of interest.

Valorie Hollister
Community Outreach Manager
DSpace Foundation


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> From: Kathleen Cowan <kcowan at bepress.com>
> Date: June 23, 2009 7:09:18 AM EDT
> To: SPARC-IR at serv01.m349.sgded.com
> Subject: [SPARC-IR] Look who?s talking about IRs---Provosts!
> Reply-To: "SPARC Institutional Repositories Discussion List"  
> <SPARC-IR at arl.org>
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> Provost listservs have been buzzing with exchanges about open access  
> and distribution of university-produced knowledge.  I see this as  
> pretty exciting news for the IR community.  It could make the work  
> of getting a committed top-level stakeholder a whole lot easier.  If  
> this is your job, I would suggest you check out "Making the Case for  
> an Institutional Repository to Your Provost."  The stories and  
> examples in this paper should provide you with some good ammunition  
> as you seek to bring in high-level support for your repository.
>
> http://works.bepress.com/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1027&context=ir_research -- Kathleen  
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