TWUSpace
TWUSpace, TWU’s own institutional repository, allows the university to begin archiving and making accessible the research and scholarly contributions that make the university so unique. The acceptance of content will be staged to allow for the establishment of proper procedures, policies, and to ensure that content is optimized for discovery. TWUSpace ensures that TWU meets the open access mandates put forth as part of all tri-council grants. The Office of Research & Graduate Studies is excited to be able to bring this resource to life, and believes it holds great promise for putting TWU on the proverbial and literal map.
TWUSpace collects scholarly and creative materials created by the Trinity Western University community, as well as important documents related to the university's history, which are made freely available to the public. Current collection efforts will focus on building up several core content areas:
- Faculty and student scholarship (articles, presentations, multimedia)
- Theses
- Grey literature (technical reports, research reports, working papers, conference papers and presentations)
- Digitized library resources
Other types of materials will be considered on a case-by-case basis.
Items are added to TWUSpace with the permission of the author/creator, and when permitted under Copyright law.
TWUSpace Goals
The goals of TWUSpace are to:
- Enhance the visibility and reach of Trinity Western University's scholarship
- Provide free, open and timely access to TWU scholarship
- Preserve and provide long-term access to this digital content
- Encourage scholarly collaboration within TWU and with others
- Capture examples of TWU's community engagement
Who can contribute?
TWUSpace includes work created by individuals or groups affiliated with a TWU department, program, research team, working group, collaborative project, or conference, such as:
- TWU faculty, researchers, and staff
- TWU faculties, departments, and schools
- TWU institutes and centres
- Undergraduate students with faculty sponsorship
Other University-affiliated entities will be considered on a case-by-case basis.
What is Arca?
Arca is a collaborative project of British Columbia post-secondary institutions to provide anytime, anywhere access to research created at BC post-secondary institutions. Arca is a province-wide network of digital repositories that:
- provides access to faculty and student research output across multiple post-secondary institutions via a cross-repository search layer;
- supports the management of institutional digital assets;
- showcases BC as a hub for knowledge creation across Canada and around the world.
Arca is powered by Islandora, a Canadian-developed open-source platform currently in use at over 100 public and private institutions worldwide. This shared platform provides post-secondary institutions with open-access repositories for research, theses, and any other digital assets they wish to make available to the wider community.
Arca is made possible by a partnership between the British Columbia Electronic Library Network (BC ELN) and Charlottetown, PEI-based software firm discoverygarden, supported by a grant from the Ministry of Advanced Education. The other participating institution's Arca sites are accessible from here.
For more information about Arca, visit the BC ELN website.
Attribution
This information would not be possible without the generous guidance and permission of Kwantlen Polytechnic University Library and Thompson Rivers University.