High-Quality Metadata and Repository Staffing: Perceptions of United States–Based OpenDOAR Participants

Sandy, Heather Moulaison; Dykas, Felicity

doi:10.1080/01639374.2015.1116480

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“…The varying levels and types of description and use of terminology that we observed makes interoperability much more challenging. The level of organization needed for interoperability requires institutions to adhere to internal and extraorganizational standards and best practices such as recommended file types, metadata schemas, and controlled vocabularies (Moulaison & Dykas, 2016). Consistency in the application of metadata schema among IRs has many benefits to those searching for grey literature.…”

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The Types, Frequencies, and Findability of Disciplinary Grey Literature within Prominent Subject Databases and Academic Institutional Repositories

Marsolek

Cooper

Farrell

et al. 2018

Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication

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INTRODUCTION In many disciplines grey literature, or works that are more ephemeral in nature and are not typically published through traditional scholarly channels, are heavily used alongside traditional materials and sources. We were interested in the type and frequency of grey literature in subject databases and in North American institutional repositories (IRs) as well as what disciplines use grey literature. METHODS Over 100 subject databases utilized by academic researchers and the IRs of over 100 academic institutions were studied. Document type, search capabilities, and level of curation were noted. RESULTS Grey literature was present in the majority (68%) of the literature databases and almost all IRs (95%) contained grey literature. DISCUSSION Grey literature was present in the subject databases across all broad disciplines including arts and humanities. In these resources the most common types of grey literature were conference papers, technical reports, and theses and dissertations. The findability of the grey literature in IRs varied widely as did evidence of active collection development. CONCLUSION Recommendations include the development of consistent metadata standards for grey literature to enhance searching within individual resources as well as supporting future interoperability. An increased level of collection development of grey literature in institutional repositories would facilitate preservation and increase the findability and reach of grey literature.

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The Types, Frequencies, and Findability of Disciplinary Grey Literature within Prominent Subject Databases and Academic Institutional Repositories

Marsolek

Cooper

Farrell

et al. 2018

Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication

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“…Moulaison Sandy and Dykas (2016) surveyed a random sample of administrators of US-based IRs included in the OpenDOAR (Directory of Open Access Repositories) registry. The authors concluded that staffing, standards, and systems combined to enable quality metadata.…”

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Do Institutional Repository Deposit Guidelines Deter Data Discovery?

Nicholson¹,

Bennett²

2021

EBLIP

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Objective – This study uses quantitative methods to determine if the metadata requirements of institutional repositories (IRs) promote data discovery. This question is addressed through an exploration of an international sample of university IRs, including an analysis of the required metadata elements for data deposit, with a particular focus on how these metadata support discovery of research data objects. Methods – The researchers worked with an international universe of 243 IRs. A codebook of 10 variables was developed to enable analysis of the eventual randomly derived sample of 40 institutions. Results – The analysis of our sample IRs revealed that most had metadata standards that offered weak support for data discovery—an unsurprising revelation in view of the fact that university IRs are meant to accommodate deposit and storage of all types of scholarly outputs, only a small percentage of which are research data objects. Most IRs seem to have adopted metadata standards based on the Dublin Core schema, while none of the IRs in our sample used the Data Documentation Initiative metadata that is better suited for deposit and discovery of research datasets. Conclusion – The study demonstrates that while data deposit can be accommodated by the existing metadata requirements of multi-purpose IRs, their metadata practices do little to prioritize data deposit or to promote data discovery. Evidence indicates that data discovery will benefit from additional metadata elements.

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“…Standardized or good quality metadata is important for describing and managing digital objects of different formats (Moulaison Sandy, & Dykas, 2016;Ochoa & Duval, 2009;Park, 2009;Robertson, 2005) and it enables end users to easily and effectively search, find and retrieve information from the repository (Jones, 2007;Jones et al, 2006;Pinfield, Gardner, & MacColl, 2002). But repositories differ widely in the handling of metadata schema (Gibbons, 2004) and the qualified Dublin Core has been the choice of researchers for organizing and harvesting open knowledge objects (Gibbons, 2004;Teli, 2015;van der Graaf & van Eijndhoven, 2008).…”

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Towards Open Access Self Archiving Policies: A Case Study of COAR

Roy

Biswas

Mukhopadhyay

2018

LIBER

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This paper examines Open Access (OA) self archiving policies of different Open Access Repositories (OARs) affiliated to COAR (Confederation of Open Access Repositories) as partner institutes. The process of scrutiny includes three major activities-selection of databases to consult; comparison and evaluation of Open Access policies of repositories listed in the selected databases and attached to COAR group; and critical examination of available self archiving policies of these OA repositories against a set of selected criteria. The above steps lead to reporting the following results: key findings have been identified and highlighted; common practices have been analyzed in relation to the focus of this paper; and a best practice

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High-Quality Metadata and Repository Staffing: Perceptions of United States–Based OpenDOAR Participants

Cited by 9 publications

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The Types, Frequencies, and Findability of Disciplinary Grey Literature within Prominent Subject Databases and Academic Institutional Repositories

The Types, Frequencies, and Findability of Disciplinary Grey Literature within Prominent Subject Databases and Academic Institutional Repositories

Do Institutional Repository Deposit Guidelines Deter Data Discovery?

Towards Open Access Self Archiving Policies: A Case Study of COAR

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