[BOAI] University of Rochester Releases IR+ Institutional Repository System

[Peter Suber]

[Forwarding from Nathan Sarr.  --Peter Suber.]


The University of Rochester is pleased to announce the 1.0 production
version of its new open source institutional repository software platform,
IR+.  The University has been running IR+ in production since August 2009.

The download can be found here:
http://code.google.com/p/irplus/downloads/list

The website for the project can be found here:
http://www.irplus.org

IR+ includes the following features:

-   Repository Wide Statistics: download counts at the repository collection
and publication level.  The statistics excludes web crawler results, and
includes the ability to retroactively remove previously unknown crawlers or
download counts that should not be included, for more accurate statistical
reporting.

-   Researcher Pages, to allow users (faculty, graduate students,
researchers) to highlight their work and post their CV

o   Example of a current researcher:
https://urresearch.rochester.edu/viewResearcherPage.action?researcherId=30

-   Ability to create “Personal publications” that allows users to have full
control over their work and see download counts without publishing into the
repository.

-   An online workspace where users can store files they are working on, and
if needed, share files with colleagues or their thesis advisor.

-   Contributor pages where users can view download counts for all
publications that they are associated with in the repository.

o   Example of a contributor page:
https://urresearch.rochester.edu/viewContributorPage.action?personNameId=20

-  Faceted Searching (example search for: Graduate Student Research)
https://urresearch.rochester.edu/searchRepositoryItems.action?query=Medical+Image

-  Embargos (example below embargoed until 2011-01-01)
https://urresearch.rochester.edu/institutionalPublicationPublicView.action?institutionalItemId=8057

-  Name Authority Control (Notice changes in last name)
https://urresearch.rochester.edu/viewContributorPage.action?personNameId=209

You can see the IR+ system customized for our university and in action here:
https://urresearch.rochester.edu

A further explanation of highlights can be found on my researcher page here:
https://urresearch.rochester.edu/researcherPublicationView.action?researcherPublicationId=11

The documentation for the system (install/user/administration) with lots of
pictures can be found on my researcher page here:
https://urresearch.rochester.edu/researcherPublicationView.action?researcherPublicationId=16

We would be happy to give you a personal tour of the system and the features
it provides.

Please feel free to contact me with any questions you may have.

-Nate

Nathan Sarr
Senior Software Engineer
River Campus Libraries
University of Rochester
Rochester, NY  14627
(585) 275-0692
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