Presentation Type
Presentation
Date
2022-11-17
Description
In 2021, the Research Medical Library of the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center launched its new institutional repository titled OpenWorks @ MD Anderson. While touted as an online hub for scholarly communications and open-access education materials, it also serves as the digital archives of the Historical Resources Center (HRC). The HRC's mission is to collect, preserve, and promote archival collections that document MD Anderson's 80-year legacy of fighting cancer. OpenWorks provides an opportunity to merge the past with the present by hosting digital collections with current scholarship in a shared online ecosystem. Historical interviews about MD Anderson's past co-mingle with new interviews about Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. Decades-old publications can be explored in the same space as posters from the institution's current researchers and students. Archivist, Jose Javier Garza, MSIS, CA, will provide an overview of the structure and organization of OpenWorks, share experience and expertise on migrating collections to a new repository, and discuss how institutional repositories can showcase an institution's legacy.
Keywords
institutional repository, digital archive
Open Access
1
Rights and Permissions
Copyright © 2022 Garza
Repository Citation
Garza, Jose Javier, "Making Cancer History Online: The OpenWorks @ MD Anderson Legacy Page" (2022). Medical Institutional Repositories in Libraries (MIRL). 18.
https://hsrc.himmelfarb.gwu.edu/mirl/2022/program/18
Making Cancer History Online: The OpenWorks @ MD Anderson Legacy Page
In 2021, the Research Medical Library of the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center launched its new institutional repository titled OpenWorks @ MD Anderson. While touted as an online hub for scholarly communications and open-access education materials, it also serves as the digital archives of the Historical Resources Center (HRC). The HRC's mission is to collect, preserve, and promote archival collections that document MD Anderson's 80-year legacy of fighting cancer. OpenWorks provides an opportunity to merge the past with the present by hosting digital collections with current scholarship in a shared online ecosystem. Historical interviews about MD Anderson's past co-mingle with new interviews about Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. Decades-old publications can be explored in the same space as posters from the institution's current researchers and students. Archivist, Jose Javier Garza, MSIS, CA, will provide an overview of the structure and organization of OpenWorks, share experience and expertise on migrating collections to a new repository, and discuss how institutional repositories can showcase an institution's legacy.