Planning for institutional repositories: Lessons learned

The Woods Hole Open Access Server (WHOAS) is an institutional repository (IR) for Woods Hole scientific content. It is an open archive with web access to its content. It is accessible to metadata harvesting (OAI-PMH) and allows for the free dissemination of scholarly communication. It is expected that WHOAS will eventually host a variety of digital objects including technical reports, articles, books, data sets, images, etc. It is hosted by the MBLWHOI Library to serve the multiple science institutions within the community of Woods Hole, Massachusetts. This paper discusses the pilot project that launched WHOAS.