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 institutional repository management, including beginning an IR, workflows, collaboration, and more.
Events from 2025
Smarter Repositories—Leveraging AI and APIs to Power Institutional Knowledge, Nicole Bentinganan
Measuring Citation Impact in Non-Indexed Repository-Based Journals: An Investigation of Repository Tools and Proposed Alternatives, Heather Brown
Lessons Learned from Showcasing Repository Usage Statistics to Inform and Inspire, Hilary Davis and Avkash Chandra
Expanding our IR after health system combination: Nurses lead the way, Jennifer Deal and Karen Hanus
A Trauma-Informed Approach to Video Review in Medical Institutional Repositories, Amanda Greenwood
Building repositories in the NHS: Practical approaches and best practices, Kobe Jong and Ignace DeRoost
Integrating Digital Archives & Scholarship: Raising Awareness of Library Historical Collections, Alice Sherwood
Rees-Jones Center for Foster Care Excellence Collection: Resources for providers, caregivers, child welfare professionals and others, Amy Six-Means and Erinne Conner
Outage as Opportunity: Local Backups for Long-Term Access, Sarah Weirich, Tara Wink, and Amy Lubinski
Exploring Repository Platforms in Academic Health Sciences Libraries: Current Trends and Next Steps, Xiao Zeng and Shuyi Liu
Events from 2024
Using searchRxiv for depositing evidence syntheses searches, Hannah J. Craven, Rachel J. Hinrichs, and Julia C. Stumpff
Leveraging a Repository to Amplify Research for an Independent Safety Science Research Organization, Hilary Davis and Beth Callahan
A Dental Archive for All: Building a Shared Repository for the ADA’s Tripartite Membership System, Alisun DeKock and Ellen Thieme
Pixels of Progress: Digitizing the Archival Collection of Cleveland's First Integrated Hospital, Crissandra George and Lisa Longenecker
Revitalizing a Web Archives Program as a Solo Archivist, Amanda Greenwood
How FAIR compliance can help every repository, Michael Upshall
Events from 2023
Getting Creative: Implementing "Fan Favorite" Voting in Digital Commons Event, Jennifer Deal and Elizabeth Suelzer
RISalud-ANDALUCIA, the institutional repository of the public health system of Andalusia, Laura Muñoz-Gonzalez, Victoria Barragan-Roman, Eva Toro-Periñan, and Juan Antonio Hernandez-Morales
Cleaning-up and Marketing OHSU Digital Collections, Pamela Pierce and Marijane White
How to Showcase and Preserve the History of a Medical Library using The TMC Library's Digital Commons Exhibits, Alice Sherwood
Events from 2022
U.S. Repository Network: Moving from Vision to Action, Tina Baich
Scholarly Dissemination for Visiting Students, Heather Brown
Tailoring Reports to Stakeholder Needs: Combining Data from Digital Commons Content Inventory and Dashboards, Jennifer Deal
Surveying the Medical IR Landscape for Presentation or Publication: Challenges and Opportunities, Ramune K. Kubilius
Dashboard Confessional: Moving Behind-the-Scenes Metrics to the Spotlight, Steven Moore
Case Study: The Challenge of Building an Italian National Repository Dedicated to the Field of Medical Research, Susanna Mornati, Irene Buso, Federico Verlicchi, and Andrea Bollini
Leveraging IR Materials for Pre- and Post-Conference Attendance, Amanda Schwartz
Managing Conference Posters: A Lifecycle Overview from Printing Service to Digital Repository Discovery, Sarah Weirich
Events from 2021
A Scholarly Publishing Opportunity for Residents and Fellows, Heather Brown and Kari Nelson
When Mergers Happen: Doubling Your Institutional Repository’s Scope Overnight, Jennifer Deal and Karen Hanus
Using the IR to Rapidly Respond to COVID-19, Kelsey Duinkerken
Individual Authorship Reports, Sarah Ellsworth
Community-driven Repository Infrastructure Programs at LYRASIS—an Overview, Paolo P. Gujilde, Sheila Rabun, and Hannah Rosen
Building a Unique Collection through Collaboration, Patricia Hinegardner and Na Lin
Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal (1953-1992): Modernizing Historical Research, JoAnn Krzeminski, Steven Moore, and Julia Pope
Riding the Wave: Getting Faculty on Board with the IR During the Pandemic, Jennifer M. Langford and Randall Watts
Development of an Archive at Monmouth Medical Center, Frederic Pachman
Publishing Partnership: Facilitating Open Access through Libraries Collaboration with Clinical Departments, Jessica Petrey, Sarah Frankel, and Rachel Howard
A New Partnership: An Institutional Repository and a Systematic Review Search Deposit Service, Stephanie Roth and Will Dean
Online Academic Days: Using the IR to Showcase Student and Resident Scholarly Activity During a Pandemic, Leanna Stager and Stacy Posillico
