Wacha Megan Elizabeth author Barnard College. Barnard Library and Academic Information Services Wisner Meredith author Columbia University. Libraries and Information Services originator text Articles 2011 manuscript version English Open access institutional repositories were created to promote access to information, encourage scholarly communication, and demonstrate institutional prestige. While these repositories have been widely adopted, the quality of their contents often fails to represent their institution's scholarly output. Moreover, current research uses measurements of quantity, not quality, to assess their value. In response, this article opens new areas of scholarly inquiry by assessing the quality of contents. This is accomplished through a cross-sectional study of repositories at American colleges and universities across the academic spectrum, using citation indexing to identify an institution's articles and authors of highest impact. Library science 61 3-4 377 388 2011 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0361526X.2011.580423 http://hdl.handle.net/10022/AC:P:15159 NNC NNC 2012-11-02 12:38:27 -0400 2013-02-19 17:21:38 -0500 9161 eng