LibGuides: Scholarly Communication: For Librarians

Commerical Solutions to OA Hosting Needs

Digital Commons
A product developed by UC Berkeley Press, Digital Commons allows customers (libraries) to both engage their scholars and raise their institutional profiles through fully supported, customizable hosted portals.

See examples of DC sites used by other colleges and universities.
Open Repository
Developed by BioMed Central, this product allows a customer (library) to build and maintain a customized DSpace repository on behalf of its institution. The repository serves both to preserve and showcase the institution's intellectual output to a larger and unrestricted audience.

See examples of OR sites used by other colleges and universities.

The Repository Support Project of the UK organization JISC conducted a survey in 2010 comparing various hosting solutions.

Compared were:

See ROARMAP for an up-to-date listing of U.S. universities and institutions and details about their open access policies or mandates.

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Read ACRL's College & Research Libraries News column on scholarly communication.

LOCKSS vs. CLOCKSS
Here's a quick rundown of the major differences between these two services for archiving library digital content.

.. using GoldRush (access restricted)

EPrints is used by some institutions to manage their online repositories.

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Subjects: Education, Humanities, Intellectual Property