From the Executive Summary:

Digital repositories are developing rapidly as a key element of research cyberinfrastructure. Even when research institutions are grappling with difficult budget decisions in the current economic environment, they need to have a strategy for providing repository services.

Libraries are making diverse contributions to the development of many types of digital repositories, particularly those housing locally created digital content — including new digital objects or digitized versions of locally held works. In some instances, libraries are managing a repository and its related services entirely on their own, but often they are working closely with other stakeholders at their institutions to jointly develop repository services.

Direct to Complete Report (52 pages; PDF)

Source: ARL

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