February 23, 2007
Middlebury College
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What’s a
repository?
“…a university-based
institutional repository is a set
of services that a university offers to the members of its community for the management and dissemination of digital materials created by the institution and its community members. It is most essentially an organizational commitment to the
stewardship of these digital materials, including long-term
preservation where
appropriate, as well as organization and access or distribution." (Lynch, 2003)