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Published on: 4/3/2007
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Bonnie Ann Cain, the OSU library coordinator of communications and publications, said the repository holds about 9,000 documents accessible to anyone across the world, although certain documents and formats are available to only OSU students and faculty.
"Regents professors are our guinea pigs right now and we are working with five professors on the site currently, so we're still new," Cain said.
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Cain said the URL is the same for all the different pages available in the repository.
"This makes searching for specific items and accessing information easier for those not familiar with the Web site," Cain said.
Cain said the idea for the repository came out of Strategic Planning committee meetings where the library sat down with OSU department heads and administrators to develop a strategic five-year plan for the library.
"Soon afterward, we spent time contracting with the vendor to get the site up and running and now we are in the process of actually putting the content in," Cain said.
The site is run through a program called Digital Commons, Cain said.
"There is a listing in the ‘about' section of the Web page that list other universities and institutions that have similar repositories with the Digital Commons company," Cain said.
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Cain said the repository is still in the infant stages and the library is still working on building it up.
"The Digital Repository is a great way for the library to build strategic colaborations with other departments on campus, making OSU research readily available to the whole world," Cain said.