Worlds Collide: A Repository Based on Technical and Archival Collaboration

Abstract

The failure of many institutional repositories (IR) to acquire large sets of faculty publications has shown that the traditional IR model is not sustainable without a shift in academic publishing. The Carolina Digital Repository (CDR) aims to be more than a traditional IR and instead of focusing primarily on open access publishing, it will acquire, preserve and make accessible a range of at-risk scholarly output, such as datasets, faculty papers, university records and other faculty research projects.