CSHL Institutional Repository: Introduction & Overview

Why do we have it?

• To collect, manage, and preserve the intellectual output produced by CSHL

• To provide annotation, metadata, topics, and subjects to items deposited in the Institutional Repository

• To collect all the works produced by a CSHL scientist throughout their career

What do we collect?

• Raw data, code, scripts, software, manuscripts, theses, presentations, posters, video, and audio files

• Bibliographic information on all CSHL faculty, researchers, and graduate students

Why do we do it?

• It provides an environment to deposit data related to works published by CSHL faculty, researchers, and graduate students

• It provides a long-term, stable location for the storage of data related to published papers

• It allows for the archiving of School of Biological Sciences theses and to make them full-text accessible
• It allows for CSHL faculty to provide additional information to published papers
• It allows for open access to enhance the sharing of data from CSHL-produced research

Who are our users?

• CSHL faculty, researchers, and graduate students

• Outside faculty, researchers, and graduate students

• The public

All information within the IR is available without a user account. User accounts are generally reserved for people involved in adding and maintaining records within the repository. Scientific administrators or persons typically assigned to maintain a laboratory's publications/data typically have an account and training. It you need records added or updated, contacting Katie McGuire is typically the easiest and faster way to get materials in the repository.