Evaluating the University of North Texas' Digital Collections and Institutional Repository: An Exploratory Assessment of Stakeholder Perceptions and Use

Abstract

The University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries conducted a study on the value of the UNT Digital Library, including its UNT Scholarly Works institutional repository, to investigate the value of the UNT Libraries' digital repositories as perceived by UNT faculty, staff, and graduate students. This evaluation of the impact of the UNT Libraries'interventions begins a longitudinal view of the overall impact of these digital repositories in order to inform decisions and provide baseline measurements against which future assessment results can be compared. Findings include that an increase in awareness of the UNT Libraries' digital repositories is statistically associated with a greater likelihood of multiple types of use and contributions back to digital repositories. Also, graduate students are, as a whole, more likely to be aware of and use the UNT Libraries' digital repositories than faculty or staff.

The social informatics of knowledge

“…Social informatics approaches also have been used to understand how online and offline knowledge and communication spaces can be conceptualized using social informatics approaches, such as Socio‐Technical Interaction Networks (STINs) (Taylor‐Smith & Smith, ). STINs have also been used to understand how stakeholders access knowledge in library collections (Waugh, Hamner, Klein, & Brannon, ), how historians create geographical knowledge (Suri, ), and how distributed learning can only be understood as a complex interplay among people, technologies, practices, and learning artifacts (Walker & Creanor, ). These and other examples are geared toward understanding the complex nature of knowledge creation in the digital era.…”

Evaluating IR Platforms: Usability Criteria for End Users and IR Managers

“…Scholarly output is moving beyond the realm of the traditional manuscript or journal article, and since graduate students are far more likely than established faculty to utilize IRs as a research tool or publishing platform, IRs should be particularly responsive to cutting edge research trends like digital humanities products and multimedia scholarship. 26 Today's IRs must support a range of different non-text resources -datasets, audio files, streaming video, maps and coordinates, high resolution images, archival and museum artifacts, and even software. 27 Therefore, IR managers must be able to tweak submission workflows, alter required fields, and provide specialized instructions to both submitters and end users according to the media type and format being deposited.…”

Sistemų sąveikumas kaip mokslo publikacijų talpyklų tobulinimo sąlyga mokslinėje komunikacijoje

“…Paprastai tiriamas mokslininkų požiūris į atvirąją prieigą apskritai, institucinės talpyklos žinomumas, jos naudojimas, pasitenkinimas teikiamomis paslaugomis (Eger et al, 2015;Kim, 2011;Kocken, Wical, 2013;Lwoga, Questier, 2015;Serrano-Vicente, Melero, 2016;Waugh et al, 2015;Schlagen, 2015), siekiama įvardyti nesinaudojimo talpyklomis priežastis (Davis, Connelly, 2007), teigiama, kad mokslininkų požiūriui į institucinę talpyklą gali daryti įtaką net licencinės sutarties ypatybės (Rinehart, Cunningham, 2017). Tiriamas institucinių talpyklų turinys, jose skelbiamų publikacijų skaičiaus augimo tempai, kurie savo ruožtu atspindi fakultetų dalyvavimo registruojant dokumentus į talpyklas apimtis ir padeda išsiaiškinti būdus, kurie skatintų aktyvesnį talpyklų naudojimą.…”