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 technical aspects of institutional repositories, including metrics tracking and reporting, technical tools available to IR managers, innovations, artificial intelligence, and more.
Events from 2025
Smarter Repositories—Leveraging AI and APIs to Power Institutional Knowledge, Nicole Bentinganan
Transforming Research Discovery: Centralized Systems and Generative Artificial Intelligence for Industry-Ready Collaboration, Timothy Cain and Alexandra Winzeler
TUScholarShare Update: Celebrating 5 Years of Search Data Deposits, Will Dean, Travis Nace, and Jenny Pierce
Evidence-Informed Decision Making at Monash Health, Cassandra Gorton
Events from 2024
Using searchRxiv for depositing evidence syntheses searches, Hannah J. Craven, Rachel J. Hinrichs, and Julia C. Stumpff
A Dental Archive for All: Building a Shared Repository for the ADA’s Tripartite Membership System, Alisun DeKock and Ellen Thieme
Authorship of articles by U.S. Government employees: implications and opportunities for medical institutional repositories, Jimmy Ghaphery
Using Python to mint DOIs on demand for a DSpace Repository, Tess Grynoch and Lisa Palmer
Developing an IR Venn Diagram: Exploring Diversity and Similarities in Specialized Institutional Repositories– a discussion, a self-survey, and a poster, Ramune Kubilius
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
Getting Creative: Implementing "Fan Favorite" Voting in Digital Commons Event, Jennifer Deal and Elizabeth Suelzer
Modifying Koha to Use as a Local Authors' Catalog, Fred King
Pure-ly for Authors: An Update of a Health System Researcher Profile Platform, Heather J. Martin and Amanda Schwartz
HCA Healthcare Scholarly Commons: Assembling a Knowledge Menagerie, Lindsay Million
NLM Scrubber to de-identify clinical text data and facilitate data sharing, Christine Nieman Hislop and Katie Pierce-Farrier
Events from 2021
Digitizing the Accolades: Documenting Institutional Research Impact with a Video Time-Capsule, Jeanette Aprile
A Scholarly Publishing Opportunity for Residents and Fellows, Heather Brown and Kari Nelson
