Digital repository expert to speak on campus April 20

Western Libraries at Western Washington University are exploring the creation of a digital research repository for the campus. Such a repository would provide a platform for showcasing, sharing and preserving the research and scholarship created by Western's students, faculty and staff.

Items included in the repository, such as research papers and reports, pre-prints and post-prints, datasets and other primary research materials, learning objects and instructional materials, student projects, conference papers and presentations, will be globally accessible, thus celebrating the great work done on Western's campus. Many other campuses have created such collections, including the University of Washington (https://digital.lib.washington.edu/researchworks/) and Washington State University (http://content.wsulibs.wsu.edu/).

In an effort to begin campus discussion of this, Provost Catherine Riordan has funded a visit by Marisa Ramirez, digital repository librarian at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. Ramirez will be on campus Tuesday, April 20, to discuss changes in scholarly communication and to share Cal Poly's experience in developing an institutional repository. Ramirez will make a campus-wide presentation at noon in the Wilson Library Presentation Room.