Dspace
Dspace is an open source systems that academics can use for sharing their work. It allows not only text files, but multimedia as well.
Quickly skimming the site, they list many other American universities already using it. What struck me about Dspace, especially after watching their introductory video, was that while configuration, etc. seems fairly straightforward, it might be better to route these database-oriented responsibilities to the main campus library staff who are already assuming more IT-like jobs than leaving it up to each individual department whose internal staffing resources might be already pretty constrained.
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