Building a Repository in Partnership with Elsevier: The University of Florida’s Perspective

The University of Florida (UF) and Elsevier have entered into a partnership to build links between the institutional repository and ScienceDirect. Judy Russell, the dean of libraries at UF expresses conviction that public access policies are advancing and that there is an evolution into the open access world. This sort of partnership are made to address goals seen as vital for the university, such as compliance and public presence. It will be interesting to observe whether libraries continue to develop repositories and scholarly communications programs as an alternative to the publisher ecosystem or in partnership with it.