Self-Archiving with Ease in an Institutional Repository:  Microinteractions and the User Experience

Betz, Sonya; Hall, Robyn

doi:10.6017/ital.v34i3.5900

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“…In other words, don"t make something look clickable when it isn"t. This principle was discovered by Betz and Hall (2015) during usability testing of an institutional repository where use of decorative icons and text resulted in half of their participants misunderstanding these as paths to deposit items.…”

Section: Design Principle: Chunkingmentioning

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Strategies to Improve the User Experience

Pennington¹,

Chapman²,

Fry³

et al. 2016

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Libraries are increasingly embracing user experience (UX) and user-centered design principles to improve the satisfaction and success of library users. Electronic resources management can utilize such principles to better support users as they interact with the library"s website and its employ to improve the user experience. These strategies include utilizing basic UX principles when designing sites and interfaces; analyzing quantitative data to inform the library on how such sites are being used; recruiting strategies for library user studies; and, finally, a call to move to a more unified user experience and to work more closely with vendors on improvements to help users succeed.

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Section: Design Principle: Chunkingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Strategies to Improve the User Experience

Pennington¹,

Chapman²,

Fry³

et al. 2016

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“…The studies range from exploring whether there is a disciplinary culture evident in regard to selfarchiving (Xia, 2007), to what the primary motivational factors are for self-archiving in an IR (Kim, 2011). Others have examined the user experience in self-archiving in the hopes of increasing submissions by making the process simpler (Betz & Hall, 2015). Anderson, Dwyer, and Leahy (2012) specifically evaluated the self-archiving behavior of researchers in the music discipline.…”

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Considering Creative Activity in Institutional Repositories: An Exploration of Faculty Perceptions

Lambaria

2020

Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication

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“…These interfaces would integrate tools that identify eligible content and run immediate copyright clearance for works, thereby lowering common barriers for self-archiving and streamlining the researcher's experience depositing to the IR (p. 157). Likewise, Betz and Hall (2015) ran extensive UX testing on their institutional repository in order to refine and focus on "ease of use" during the self-archiving process, identifying many roadblocks in the process (pp. 51-53).…”

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From Meow to ROAR: Expanding Open Access Repository Services at the University of Houston Libraries

Atta

Thompson

et al. 2019

Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication

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INTRODUCTIONThe rapidly changing scholarly communication ecosystem is placing a growing premium on research data and scholarship that is openly available. It also places a growing pressure on universities and research organizations to expand their publishing infrastructures and related services. DESCRIPTION OF PROGRAM To embrace the change and meet local demands, University of Houston (UH) Libraries formed a cross-departmental open access implementation team in 2017 to expand our open access repository services to accommodate a broad range of research products beyond electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs). The result of this effort was the Cougar Research Open Access Repositories (Cougar ROAR), a rebranded and expanded portal to the UH Institutional Repository, and the UH Dataverse, which disseminates the full range of scholarly outputs generated at the University of Houston. This article describes the team's phased activities, including internal preparation, a campus pilot, rebranding, and a robust outreach program. It also details the team's specific tasks, such as building the Cougar ROAR portal, developing ROAR policies and guidelines, enhancing institutional repository functionality, conducting campus promotional activities, and piloting and scaling a campus-wide open access program. NEXT STEPS Based on the pilot project findings and the resulting recommendations, the team outlined key next steps for sustainability of the UH Libraries' open access services: continuation of the campus CV service, establishment of campus-wide OA policy, further promotion of Cougar ROAR and assessment of OA programs and services, and investment in long-term storage and preservation of scholarly output in Cougar ROAR.

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Self-Archiving with Ease in an Institutional Repository: Microinteractions and the User Experience

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Cited by 12 publications

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Strategies to Improve the User Experience

Strategies to Improve the User Experience

Considering Creative Activity in Institutional Repositories: An Exploration of Faculty Perceptions

From Meow to ROAR: Expanding Open Access Repository Services at the University of Houston Libraries

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