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'Institutional Repositories, a new platform in Higher Education and Research' by dr. Joost Kircz was written as a discussion paper for the CNI-JISC-SURF conference “Making the strategic case for institutional repositories”. The author has finalized the paper after the conference.

Joost Kircz: 'This short report aims to provide an analytical approach towards the issue of Institutional Repositories in order to clarify the multifaceted discussion and to serve as a kind of checklist in the process of decision making. The present discussion on Institutional Repositories is characterised by an unbalanced mixture of technology push, a discussion on the level of academic autarky and the debate on the role of (commercial) publishers. In this report, a more axiomatic approach is adopted in the hope that this will assist reaching a more transparent discussion of the aims and goals as well as the organisational and financial consequences.'