Abstract:More than 800 institutional repositories exist in Japan, but only a few institutions are active in registering journal articles. In this study, we analyzed the causal relation between the number of journal articles and librarians' open access promotion activities to provide good practice guidelines to the institutional repository community. Quantitative analysis results using data from 87 domestic institutions showed "request for journal articles", a direct approach to researchers, was estimated particularly i… Show more
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