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Organized access to the body of
a researcher’s work for students
WELCOME WHAT IS RSPACE? and others
TO A long-term stable URL that can
RSPACE Addresses a problem that be used in a citation to link to
RSPACE faculty and staff members have been items in RSPACE
expressing to the library over the BENEFITS FOR RENISON:
RENISON UNIVERSITY COLLEGE past few years: how to manage their
INSTITUTIONAL REPOSITORY digital materials and self-post online. Provides stewardship of scholarly output
and access to all the research, cumulative
Captures digital research material and perpetual, of the institution through
in any format directly from one interface
creators
Describes descriptive, technical, Showcases the international prominence
rights metadata and assigns of the faculty both individually and
persistent identifiers collectively.
Distributes search metadata and Provides a proactive response to the
delivers via Web, with necessary
access control quest for open access
“An institutional repository (IR) is a set Preserves large-scale, stable,
of services that a university offers to managed long-term storage
the members of its community for the BENEFITS FOR INDIVIDUALS:
management and dissemination of digital GETTING TO THE REPOSITORY:
materials created by the institution and Long-term preservation for a
its community members.” variety of digital formats http://rspace.uwaterloo.ca/xmlui/
including text, audio, video,
- Clifford Lynch, ARL Bimonthly images, datasets, and more
Report 226 A world-wide audience
Quick distribution of research
results