What does it mean that DRUM is UMs repository?
Many research institutions around the world are creating institutional repositories to safeguard and make available the works of their scholars and researchers. While ordinary Web pages have been used to great advantage to share scholarship and research, they also tend to be hard to create and maintain. Finding scholarly information on the open Web is often difficult. Institutional repositories improve on the basic functions of the Web. They work by providing stable storage for deposited files and gathering and publicizing basic descriptive information; these digital documents can be found, read, and used by a global audience. Repositories are designed to make it easy for authors to deposit their works and for any researcher to locate works of interest quickly and easily. The costs are kept very low and are covered by the institution rather than the author or the reader. The University of Maryland is participating in this international exchange of scholarly information by creating DRUM
