The Medical Institutional Repositories in Libraries (MIRL) Symposium focuses on Institutional Repository (IR) management, curation, and promotion in a health sciences environment. MIRL is a platform-neutral conference. The goal of MIRL is to gather together IR practitioners and those with an interest in IRs at hospitals, academic medical centers, and other health settings for discussions and sharing of case studies and best practices for digital archiving of institutional content.
The content below has been collected from past symposia to reflect the knowledge available on the topic of data, including access, metadata, depositing into an IR, open educational resources, and more.
Events from 2025
The Data Rescue Project: Protecting Public Access to Public Data, Lena Bohman
Measuring Citation Impact in Non-Indexed Repository-Based Journals: An Investigation of Repository Tools and Proposed Alternatives, Heather Brown
The Case for Data Sharing: Generalist Repository Real-World User Stories, Lisa Curtin
Lessons Learned from Showcasing Repository Usage Statistics to Inform and Inspire, Hilary Davis and Avkash Chandra
TUScholarShare Update: Celebrating 5 Years of Search Data Deposits, Will Dean, Travis Nace, and Jenny Pierce
Unwilling, Unable, Unsafe: A Policy to Meet Unusual Sharing Requests, Abigail Goben and Andrew Boyd
A Trauma-Informed Approach to Video Review in Medical Institutional Repositories, Amanda Greenwood
University of Alabama at Birmingham's Research Data Catalog, Amy Reese
Clearing the Hurdles: Strategies for Accessibility Remediation in a Digital Repository, Laura Riley and Lori Micho
Events from 2024
Leveraging Institutional Repositories for Open Educational Resources in Academic Healthcare Settings, Clara Fowler
How FAIR compliance can help every repository, Michael Upshall
Aiding Medical Librarians with Data Management and Sharing: Resources from the NIH Generalist Repository Ecosystem Initiative, Ana Van Gulick and Pearl Go
Events from 2023
Knowledge Syntheses Search Strategy Repositories: Canadian Case Studies, Heather Cunningham, Sabine Calleja, Julia Martyniuk, Daniela Ziegler, Alix Pincivy, Jill Boruff, and Alisa Rod
NLM Scrubber to de-identify clinical text data and facilitate data sharing, Christine Nieman Hislop and Katie Pierce-Farrier
CARE Data Principles Data Curation Primer, Katie Pierce Farrier, Sarah Barsness, Maria Victoria Fernandez, Alex Wieker, and Ann Myatt James
Events from 2022
Digital Commons Data: For Your Institution's RDM Journey, Luca Belletti
Tailoring Reports to Stakeholder Needs: Combining Data from Digital Commons Content Inventory and Dashboards, Jennifer Deal
Hyku: Collaboration and Commitment in an Open Source Data Repository, Kevin Kochanski
Dashboard Confessional: Moving Behind-the-Scenes Metrics to the Spotlight, Steven Moore
Events from 2021
Manuscript Repository to Support Rigor in DNP Scholarship, Marina Cuneo, Claire Sharifi, and Jo Ann Loomis
Data Catalogs, Metadata, and Data Discovery: How data catalogs extend and enhance the IR ecosystem, Anthony Dellureficio
Reports, Infographics, Policy Briefs, and More: Marketing an IR to Creators of Grey Literature at UIC, Rosie Hanneke and Janet Swatscheno
Figshare Repositories: New Data-Sharing Features for Researchers and Librarians, Andrew Mckenna-Foster
Open Educational Resources Within Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine: Assessing the Needs and Developing a Repository Framework, Kyle Robinson and Joanne Muellenbach
