This year for Open Access Week, we're highlighting how some of our Alliance Digital Repository member institutions are using our Islandora/Fedora repository platform to support open access to research.

Our members use their digital repository sites to provide access to traditional results of research such as journal articles, reports, theses, and dissertations, as well as to digital audio and video files created during original research.

At Colorado College, the "State of the Rockies" Project is an important campus initiative that conducts state-of-the-art research to help residents of the Rocky Mountain states clearly see our communities, our environment, and our economy so we can better shape our future. Annual in-depth "Report Cards" are published each year, each with a different topical emphasis. The 2004-2013 report cards are available in CC's State of the Rockies Annual Report Cards collection.

At Regis University, Chris Steele, a graduate student working on his MA in liberal arts, created a collection of filmed interviews with Noam and Aviva Chomsky. These interviews were referenced in Chomsky's new book, Occupy: Reflections on Class War, Rebellion, and Repression, 2nd ed. Watch the interviews online at Regis University Digital Repository's Chomsky Family Collection.

The University of Northern Colorado has open access resolutions passed by the faculty senate and the library faculty. The faculty senate resolution encourages "the deposit of faculty journal articles in our institutional repository, Digital UNC, at the earliest possible opportunity in the publication process, and in the format allowable by their publishers."

Want to know more about how to advocate for Open Access at your institution? Read the journal article "Open access advocacy: think globally, act locally" by a group of UNC Libraries faculty members (Rathe, Chaudhuri, and Highby 2010), originally published in the OA journal Collaborative Librarianship (hosted by the Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries).