In a recent effort to strengthen active preservation strategies, Oregon State University Libraries committed to conducting a multi-part annual preservation assessment for our institutional repository, focusing on the sustainability of file formats. This spring we conducted the first assessment, gathered a lot of data, and uncovered a few holes in...
The authors completed and submitted this Core Trust Seal self-assessment for the ScholarsArchive@OSU institutional repository in August 2022. The repository was awarded CoreTrustSeal certification for trustworthy data repositories. This international certification is based on a set of requirements and best practices for repositories, including data description, infrastructure, interoperability, sustainability, and...
In Spring 2019, a library team was asked to conduct this Core Trust Seal self-assessment for the ScholarsArchive@OSU institutional repository in order to determine whether the repository could achieve certification as a trusted digital repository.