The Carolina Digital Repository is the institutional repository for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The CDR is built on Samvera Hyrax and accepts all types of scholarly material from the UNC-CH community, including articles, book chapters, posters, presentations, video and research data.
In support of UNC-CH's Open Access Policy, the UNC Libraries Open Access Implementation Team was tasked in 2017 with increasing the amount of faculty scholarship in the CDR. The Team identified three strategies, which we collectively named “Content Liberation”:
1. Author citations/1foldr: Originally, CDR staff planned to conduct affiliation searches in the UNC Libraries subscription databases. After the UNC Libraries purchased a 1foldr report from 1Science, this project was adapted to load content from that report.
2. CV review: CDR staff planned to review faculty CVs for deposit-eligible scholarship on an as-needed basis. During the COVID-19 pandemic, this project was adapted into a work from home project for library workers and students.
3. Highly Cited Researchers: Using Clarivate’s Highly Cited Researchers lists, CDR staff identified high impact, deposit-eligible scholarship.
To discover the gaps in coverage, I conducted an analysis of the subject areas, gender and racial makeup of authors included in the three approaches to content identification. The research questions in this analysis are:
1. Does CDR content fully represent the scholarly output of the university?
2. Do CDR’s initiatives and content sources ameliorate or replicate existing inequities in the academy?
3. How can CDR bring attention to the work of marginalized groups
