In the just-posted September 2005 issue of D-Lib magazine, which is available at http://www.dlib.org, there are two articles analyzing data that was gathered for the joint CNI/JISC/SURF May 2005 meeting in Amsterdam on the state of deployment of institutional repositories. The first, which I co-authored with Gerard van Westrienen of the SURF Foundation, looks at the comparative international data from some thirteen nations. The second article, which Joan Lippincott and I co-authored, goes into more depth on the United States survey data that we gathered from academic CNI member institutions as input to the international survey. The articles also contain URLs for presentations from the Amsterdam meeting and for the complete data submitted for each nation as input to the meeting. Taken together, I think that these two articles provide an interesting look at the state of institutional repository deployment as of Spring 2005.

Let me also point out a very interesting article in the same issue (with no offense intended to the other articles in the issue, which I have not yet read)  by Brian Lavoie, Lynn Connaway and Lorcan Dempsey of OCLC that you may want to look at while visiting the D-Lib site. This article looks at collection overlap and uniqueness patterns in the context of large-scale digitization programs such as the Google initiative. For those who were at the Spring 2005 CNI Task Force meeting in Washington, I believe that Lorcan Dempsey made reference to this ongoing work during the disucssion at the Google digitization panel.

Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI