Mashup using data from ROAR and OpenDOAR

Results of a nationwide census of institutional repositories in U.S. academic institutions.

"A considerable portion of the scholarly record is born digital, and some scholarship is produced in digital formats that have no physical, in-the-hand counterparts. The proliferation of digital scholarship raises serious and pressing issues about how to organize, access, and preserve it in perpetuity. The response of academic institutions has been to build and deploy institutional repositories (IRs) to manage the digital scholarship their learning communities produce."

Survey of UK institutions.

By Charles W. Bailey, Jr. Discusses what an IR is, and looks at the relationship between IRs and the open access movement.