A DRIVER's Guide to European Repositories : Five studies of important Digital Repository related issues and good Practices

Weenink, Kasja; Waaijers, Leo; van, Karen Godtsenhoven,

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“…The technical architecture with varied features grounding the IRs varies, but the main aim of every open institutional platform is to remove the barriers existent in the scholarly world, which they seem to perform positively from the times of their inception. Nowadays, IRs are also institutionalizing more interactive features like Web 2.0 for wider and quicker dissemination of research (Aguillo, 2020; Brown and Boulderstone, 2008; Cocciolo, 2010; Earnshaw and Vince, 2007; Jones, 2007; Jones and American Library Association, 2009; Littlejohn and Pegler, 2007; Livingston, 2010; Megrey and Moksness, 2009; Mendes and Brasileiro, 2007; Ozek, 2011; Primary Research Group, 2008; Shafi et al, 2013; Shueb and Sofi, 2014; Sicilia and Lytras, 2009; Weenink et al, 2008; Wood, 2007). The incorporation of Web 2.0 tools in the IRs encourage and enhance community participation and involvement (Cocciolo, 2010), thus giving an enhanced and extended force to the power of open scholarly content.…”

Section: Irs: Indicators Of Hidden Institutional Researchmentioning

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“…An appropriate research budget, if set by the institutions, can ensure long-term sustainability of the IRs (Armbruster and Romary, 2011). IRs can be orchestrated on a subscription or business model which will help to sell a product or a service on a subscription basis to the paying customers or generate the revenue against the services provided by them in the market place (Weenink et al, 2008: 43 ) . Other issues include identification and deposition of the content, access and use of services, preservation of content and sustainability of services (Armbruster and Romary, 2011).…”

Section: Irs: Challenges and Opportunitiesmentioning

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Evolution of institutional repositories: Managing institutional research output to remove the gap of academic elitism

Bashir

Gul²,

Bashir

et al. 2021

Journal of Librarianship and Information Science

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The article tries to highlight the evolution and conceptual framework of institutional repositories and their impact on the academic and scholarly circles in terms of better visibility, wider audience and earlier communication of research. The characteristics associated with the institutional repositories are also highlighted, which makes them stand out from the crowd in the family of open access scholarly platforms. The study is based on the examination and evaluation of the articles published across various peer-reviewed journals showcasing numerous dimensions of institutional repositories, ranging from their evolution to open scholarly acceptance. A preliminary search on institutional repositories was carried through two well-renowned indexing/abstracting databases of peer-reviewed literature, Clarivate Analytic’s, Web of Science and Elsevier’s Scopus. Search terms like institutional repositories, institutional research output, open access repositories, green open access, open access, open access publishing, open access initiatives, digital libraries, directory of open access repositories, open DOAR and scholarly communication were run across the databases for article retrieval, and the relevant studies were extracted accordingly. To make the study more comprehensive and current, the studies citing the retrieved articles were also consulted. The study reveals that the benefits associated with institutional repositories are manifold. They recounter users with the information which was otherwise unavailable due to the reasons ranging from the non-availability of supplementary information (like unpublished reports and working papers, multimedia and audiovisual items, learning objects, other special item types, bibliographic references, datasets, lecture notes and so forth) to the paywall/subscription models adopted by commercial channels of scholarly communication. Furthermore, the social, research and technological factors tend to be the main motivating factors for their wider acceptance by the scholarly community at global, national, organizational, and individual levels. They enhance the preservation of institutional research output with increased viewership and prestige apart from achieving a potential research impact. They, in a real sense, have abrogated the unilateral assault orchestrated by the commercial publishers on the author community by democratizing their scholarly voices via open and barrierless scholarly platforms. They are the future of the academic output of an institution/author as they perform successfully within the constitutional boundaries of scholarly and academic publishing, thus safeguarding the rights and claims of every academic actor. Given the importance of institutional repositories for a more democratic, barrierless and impactful information communication, they are for sure going beyond various scholarly circles by breaking the traditional and rigid walls of scholarly endeavours. The study presents a useful overview of the progression of the institutional repositories, their intended purpose and how they serve to fill the gaps in scholarly publishing and meet the needs of the wider academic community. The article summarizes in one place a concise overview of the use and impact of institutional repositories. The study is also an eye-opener for scholars interested in the research in the field of institutional repositories.

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Section: Irs: Indicators Of Hidden Institutional Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Irs: Challenges and Opportunitiesmentioning

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Evolution of institutional repositories: Managing institutional research output to remove the gap of academic elitism

Bashir

Gul²,

Bashir

et al. 2021

Journal of Librarianship and Information Science

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“…Así, mientras los factores de viabilidad facilitan su existencia y la sostenibilidad tiene que ver con los recursos que el negocio es capaz de generar, la adaptabilidad hace referencia a su pervivencia y adecuación al futuro (Weenink et al, 2008).…”

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Modelos de negocio de las editoriales de revistas científicas: implicaciones para el acceso abierto

Villarroya¹,

Claudio-González²,

Abadal

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El Profesional de la Informacion

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“…The DRIVER's Guide to Repositories (Weenink et al , 2007) was available in December 2007 to support and advocate the use of the open access material within the European research communities. DRIVER's Best Practice for National IR Websites has been developed based on experience by DRIVER partners and in particular based on the experience of setting up the Belgium portal www.driver‐repository.be.…”

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Repositories and journals: are they in conflict?

Brown

2010

Aslib Proceedings

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Purpose -This paper aims to bring together information on whether any evidence exists of a commercial conflict between the creation of digital archives at research institutions and by key subject centres of excellence, and the business of journal publishing. Design/methodology/approach -Relevant publications, including articles published in refereed books and journals, as well as informal commentaries on listservs, blogs and wikis, were analysed to determine whether there is any evidence of a commercial relationship. Findings -Most of the published comments are highly subjective and anecdotal -there is a significant emotional overtone to many of the views expressed. There is precious little hard evidence currently available to support or debunk the idea that a commercial conflict exists between repositories and journal subscriptions. The situation is made more difficult by the many technological, sociological and administrative changes that are taking place in parallel to the establishment of repositories. Practical implications -Separating the key drivers and their impact is a major strategic challenge facing all stakeholders in the scholarly communication industry in future.

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A DRIVER's Guide to European Repositories : Five studies of important Digital Repository related issues and good Practices

Cited by 4 publications

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Evolution of institutional repositories: Managing institutional research output to remove the gap of academic elitism

Evolution of institutional repositories: Managing institutional research output to remove the gap of academic elitism

Modelos de negocio de las editoriales de revistas científicas: implicaciones para el acceso abierto

Repositories and journals: are they in conflict?

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