IR+ Institutional Repository¶

IR+ is an institutional repository software project. It is a fully featured digital repository management solution that is easy for users to understand and manage. Its goals are to meet the needs of any organization that needs to author, publish and preserve digital information.

A way for Administration to have a:¶

• Cost effective solution to meet their open access goals
• Way to show that the repository is providing a return on their investment
• Solution that supports not only organizational but also user needs
• Repository system that users want to use rather than being forced or mandated to use

A way for Authoring Users/Faculty/Researchers to:¶

• Effectively reach colleagues and get recognized for their work
• Have a workspace where they can author, collaborate, and track versions of their documents
• Have control over their information and publications
• Easily create a web presence without having to use HTML or FTP
• Be able to analyze the global use of their publications and work

The source code is now available.

The software been in production at the University of Rochester since August 2009. You can see the code in action here:

UR Research

Some links that will help you understand the software:

Quick overview of highlights

IR+ Manuals Install/User/Admin (PDF - Lots of Screen Shots)

IR+ Authoring Video This is an instructional video on YouTube showing the workspace in action on our production system

IR+ Statistics Video This is an instructional video on YouTube showing how the statistics for IR+ work

Browsing and Searching Video This is an instructional video on YouTube showing how the Browse and Search for IR+ work

Portfolio Pages Overview This is an instructional video on YouTube showing an Overview of Portfolio Pages in IR+

Portfolio Pages How To This is an instructional video on YouTube showing how to create a Portfolio Page in IR+

IR+ Publishing How To Part 1 This is an instructional video on YouTube showing how to publish into the repository

IR+ Publishing How To Part 2 This is an instructional video on YouTube showing how to publish into the repository

Research done to inform our software requirements and design

A study on our users - The Next Generation of Academics

Understanding Faculty to Improve Content Recruitment for Institutional Repositories

Articles And Blog Comments

Comments about IR+ presentation

What DSpace could learn from IR+

An Interview with Suzanne Bell, Administrator of the University of Rochester's New Open Source Institutional Repository, UR Research

Are Repositories Now Enterprise?

Commentary from Carl Grant

Encouraging Open Access

The software is built using JAVA and the following core technologies:

Spring Application Framework

Hibernate

Struts 2

Lucene

Quartz

TestNG

YUI