Faculty Assessment with Institutional Repositories

Abstract

This poster introduces the idea of integrating the content of institutional repositories (IR) into an institutional assessment (IA) system. We believe that items self-archived by faculty in an IR could represent the entirety of their intellectual work and provide the best evidence for the assessment of their scholarship. Such integration will help institution administration to quantify the performance of their faculty, and also help promote self-archiving among faculty for IRs. It is a cost-efficient model for the creation and management of both IR and IA, e.g., a better alternative to open access mandate policies, and will bring values to libraries that initiate and supervise repositories.