A Multi-Input

John Laudun

Multi-Output Institutional Repository

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J o h n L a u d u n

Premise

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The modern research and teachinguniversity must emphasize that it bothcreates knowledge that it disseminatesdirectly through diverse channels andthat it teaches others how to createknowledge, offering them models in howthey too might go about commoditizingtheir own creativity.

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Proposal

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The institutional repository, built on opencommunity software and standards, is thefoundation major research universities arebuilding for re-establishing the university ascentral to knowledge creation: the collectionof raw research, the publication of analysisand results, the opening of institutional doorsto higher education’s many publics.

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