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"I'm aware of the injury factor, the number of IRs, which is a cancer, let's face it," Coughlin said then.

NY Daily News Filip Bondy 2011

$472,984.50 $515,685.70 0. 008% During the fiscal year 2008, 29. 8% of all Independent Representatives ( "IRs") earned a commission or override, while 70. 2% did not.

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At the same time, they have been instrumental in convincing the leaders of the institutes to provide policy and financial support for the IRs.

National Science Library: Early Adopter of Open Access in China « ResourceShelf 2010

The response of academic institutions has been to build and deploy institutional repositories (IRs) to manage the digital scholarship their learning communities produce.

Census of Institutional Repositories in the United States MIRACLE Project Research Findings « ResourceShelf 2007

Since most institutions at least in part serve undergraduates, for whom the goal of creating “the well-rounded person” has not been entirely abandoned, IRs set out to cover everything–to put the universe into the university.

Almost Open Access 2008

What I propose is that in addition to IRs which ultimately are simply going to be extensions of course-management systems, so why not just hand off this function to Blackboard and be done with it?

Almost Open Access 2008

PVW, this doesn't feel like the same criticism that IRs have received.

Speaking of "Affirmative Action for White Guys"... Anxious Black Woman 2008

By symmetry, it also gets access to the output of all other IRs for its users, for free.

Almost Open Access 2008

PVW, this doesn't feel like the same criticism that IRs have received.

Speaking of "Affirmative Action for White Guys"... Anxious Black Woman 2008

IRs will become more sophisticated by “disappearing”.

Provostial Publishing 2008