The Library Catalog Meets the IR: Integrating Institutional Repository Materials Into EBSCO Discovery Service

Zachary Stein; Sheryl Curry, UL Lafayette, Asst. Dean for Technical Services; Scott Jordan, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Digitization Archivist

Institutional repositories (IR) are designed to promote access to institutions' scholarly content. To ensure further discoverability of these materials, Edith Garland Dupré Library at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette partnered with EBSCO Discovery Service to integrate IR items into the library catalog. This presentation will touch upon the implemented process, current results and challenges, and the benefits of this kind of integration for institutions.