University publishing opportunities have burgeoned with the development of the world wide web. A wide range of campus units including libraries have begun publishing digital works - new genres and traditional forms.

• University Publishing in a Digital Age
  by Laura Brown, Rebecca Griffiths, and Matthew Rascoff (Ithaka, July 2007)

Increasingly common at research institutions, digital repositories provide free, online access to scholarly materials and can be organized by discipline or by institution. Some open access repositories accept all types of scholarly materials, including pre-publication materials, journals and peer-reviewed series, seminar series papers, post-prints, and more. Most digital archives comply with the Open Archives Initiative (OAI) protocol for metadata harvesting, which makes them interoperable and cross-searchable. Users can find a work in an OAI-compliant archive without knowing which archives exist, where they are located, or what they contain.

• Institutional Repositories
  SPEC Kit 292 (Washington DC: ARL, July 2006)

• “Institutional Repositories: Essential Infrastructure for Scholarship in the Digital Age”
  by Clifford A. Lynch, ARL Bimonthly Report, no. 226 (February 2003)

• “The Case for Institutional Repositories: A SPARC Position Paper”
  by Raym Crow (Washington DC: SPARC, August 2002)

• SPARC: Repository Resources
  includes guides, presentation materials, and handbooks produced by SPARC and other organizations

• LEADIRS: LEarning About Digital Institutional Repositories Seminars

• ROAR: Registry of Open Access Repositories

Institutional Repository Examples

• The D-Space Federation

• SPARC: Select List of Institutional Repositories

• eScholarship program of the California Digital Library

Disciplinary Repository Examples

• ArXiv: For physics, mathematics, non-linear science, computer science, and quantitative biology. Operated by Cornell University

• PubMed Central: A digital archive of life sciences journal literature deposited by publishers. Developed and managed by the National Center for Biotechnology Information at the U.S. National Library of Medicine

• CogPrints: An electronic self-archive for papers in psychology, neuroscience, linguistics, computer science, philosophy, biology, medicine, anthropology, and other areas that relate to the study of cognition. Developed by the University of Southampton, England

• RePEC: Research Papers in Economics provides a decentralized database of working papers, journal articles and software components. All RePEc material is freely available.

• SSRN: Social Science Research Network’s eLibrary consists of two parts: an Abstract Database and an Electronic Paper Collection. It is composed of a number of specialized research networks in each of the social sciences.