Small-scale digitization goes big time: Implementation of a scholarly digitization fund

Abstract

A small-scale scholarly digitization fund has allowed the library at Simon Fraser University to expand its scholarly communication program into new disciplines and recruiting new content for its institutional repository. Although the repository has been active since 2004, the library continues to seek interesting local collections to expand it and showcase it as a viable publication platform for the university's authors. The library wants to move beyond article preprints and theses, a predicament shared by other libraries. The article discusses how the librarians worked with administration to create a funding source to digitze a collection of research materials. Adapted from the source document.