About DSpace

About the University of Delaware Library Institutional Repository and DSpace

The Institutional Repository is a groundbreaking digital library system that uses open source DSpace software to:

• capture
  
• store
  
• index
  
• preserve
  
• redistribute
  

About DSpace Software

Developed jointly by MIT Libraries and Hewlett-Packard (HP), DSpace is now freely available to research institutions worldwide as an open source system that can be customized and expanded.

What is in the Institutional Repository?

The Institutional Repository consists of University of Delaware original research in digital form, including technical reports, working papers, conference papers, images, and more.

Is this all of University of Delaware Research?

No. The Institutional Repository is limited to digital research products and materials for which the copyright is owned by the author or the University. For items published in journals or books, online or in print, go to the Library web site and consult DELCAT (the University of Delaware Library catalog), Electronic Journals, or Databases provided by the Library. The Institutional Repository is young and growing rapidly. Check back often.

Benefits for the University of Delaware

The Institutional Repository offers the opportunity to provide access to research of the institution through one interface. The Institutional Repository represents University of Delaware scholarship and showcases the international prominence of the faculty and staff, both individually and collectively. The ability to distribute research results quickly will emphasize the cutting-edge nature of University of Delaware research. The DSpace software is available under an open source license so that other institutions can establish similar digital repositories.

Benefits of Participation

The Institutional Repository is designed to make participation easy. Communities (such as schools, departments, labs, and centers) can adapt the system to meet their individual needs and manage the submission process themselves. Communities can create as many collections as they wish in the Institutional Repository. Each collection can be established with different contributors, access, and workflow options. The Institutional Repository showcases the work of the community to researchers worldwide. The interdisciplinary content of the archive will attract a wider audience than a repository dedicated to one discipline. The Institutional Repository relieves community staff of the time-consuming chores entailed in maintaining a publications presence on the Web. The Library provides guidance in establishing new Institutional Repository communities and assistance to faculty and staff and other users of the system.

UD Communities in the Institutional Repository (as of December 2004)

Department of Food & Resource Economics
(College of Agriculture & Natural Resources)

Disaster Research Center
(College of Arts & Sciences)

Center for Composite Materials
(College of Engineering)

Institute for Public Administration
(College of Human Resources, Education & Public Policy)

Sea Grant College Program
(Graduate College of Marine Studies)

For the User

The Institutional Repository enables easy and remote access to the university's research and scholarly materials from one location.

Policies and Guidelines

• The work must be produced, submitted, or sponsored by University of Delaware faculty or staff.
• The collection or works to be submitted must have the written approval of the University of Delaware Academic Department Chair, School Director, or Research Center Director.
  
• The work must be education, research, or service oriented.
• The work must not be ephemeral.
  
• The work must be in digital form.
  
• The work must be complete and ready for input into the University of Delaware Library Institutional Repository.
  
• The author/owner must be willing and able to grant the University of Delaware Library the right to preserve and distribute the work via the University of Delaware Library Institutional Repository.
  
• If the work is part of a series, other works in that series should also be contributed so that the University of Delaware Library Institutional Repository can offer as full a set as possible.
  
• The required fields must be input with each submission (such as title, author, subject/key words) along with the content.
  
• The University of Delaware Library Institutional Repository uses DSpace software which fully supports many common application file types (such as MARC, Adobe PDF and Postscript) and image files (such as TIFF, JPEG, GIF and PNG) and text files [including HTML, TXT (text), DAT (data: ASCII data), RTF (rich text format), and XML]. Audio formats AIFF, AIF, and AIFC are also supported.

2. The Role of the "Community" in the University of Delaware Library Institutional Repository:

A "community" in the University of Delaware Library Institutional Repository is an administrative unit defined as a University of Delaware Academic Department, School, or Research Center. Written approval of the Academic Department Chair, School Director, or Research Center Director is required for inclusion of materials from that community in the University of Delaware Library Institutional Repository.

In addition:

• Each community (Academic Department, School, Research Center) must be able to assign a coordinator who can work with Library staff.
  
• Groups of faculty or staff wishing to establish a community in the University of Delaware Library Institutional Repository that do not fall into the definition of Academic Department, School, or Research Center will require approval of the appropriate Academic Chair, Director, or Dean.
  
• Individuals may not submit items without belonging to an established community.
  
• The individual in the community establishes that the items submitted have copyright clearance and that the submitter has the right to submit the item(s) with regard to copyright compliance.
  
• The community leader (Academic Department Chair, School Director, Research Center Director) agrees that the information that he or she has approved for submission to the University of Delaware Library Institutional Repository be allowed to be accessible to the world via the Web via the University of Delaware Library Institutional Repository.
  

University of Delaware faculty and staff are invited to consider placing their research in the Institutional Repository. To participate in the University of Delaware Library Institutional Repository, contact one of the following individuals for further information:

Sandra K. Millard
Assistant Director for Library Public Services
E-mail: skm@udel.edu
Phone: (302) 831-2231

Gregg Silvis
Assistant Director for Library Computing Systems
E-mail: gregg@udel.edu
Phone: (302) 831-2231

William Simpson
Senior Assistant Librarian
E-mail: wsimpson@udel.edu
Phone: (302) 831-0188

Susan Brynteson
The May Morris Director of Libraries
E-mail: susanb@udel.edu
Phone: (302) 831-2231

University of Delaware Library Institutional Repository Press Release

"Sharing Research through UD's innovative Institutional Repository"
UDaily, October 25, 2004.
http://www.udel.edu/PR/UDaily/2005/oct/repository102504.html