Langara College is joining Arca BC!

The institutional repository is one of the latest trends in scholarly communication and publishing. Institutional repositories provide students and faculty with a digital space to store and share scholarly production, projects, learning objects, art, and any number of digitally born resources. These spaces are designed to be open access, allowing content to be shared in a way that enhances academic discourse and complies with current Tri-Council funding standards.

arca_logo200x162 BC Electronic Library Network (BC ELN) is collaborating with a number of post-secondary institutions and the open source digital collection software Islandora to provide infrastructure and support for institutional repositories in a project called Arca BC. Langara Library is delighted to join this project and provide this innovative sharing space for students and faculty.

Langara Library needs your help! In order to create the institutional repository, we need content to go in it! If you, your faculty, or your department has digital objects that can be shared with the community, we would love to put them in the collection. Items can include scholarly output (like journal articles, theses, or dissertations), digital or digitized art objects, historical or archival collections, or exemplary student work. If you have any items that you think would be best shared through this new environment, please don’t hesitate to get in touch with Alli Sullivan (asullivan@langara.ca) in the library.

For examples of institutional repositories created with the help of Arca BC, all collections can be searched on the Arca BC website (http://arcabc.ca/). Collections from Emily Carr University of Art and Design (http://ecuad.arcabc.ca/browse_collections/) is also an amazing example of an IR created with Arca.

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