The impact of institutional repositories: a systematic review

Abstract

Objective: Institutional repositories are platforms for presenting and publicizing scholarly output that might not be suitable to publish in a peer-reviewed journal or that must meet open access requirements. However, there are many challenges associated with their launch and up-keep. The objective of this systematic review was to define the impacts of institutional repositories (IRs) on an academic institution, thus justifying their implementation and/or maintenance.Methods: A comprehensive literature search was performed in the following databases: Ovid MEDLINE, Ovid EMBASE, the Cochrane Library (Wiley), ERIC (ProQuest), Web of Science (Core Collection), Scopus (Elsevier), and Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (EBSCO). A total of 6,593 citations were screened against predefined inclusion and exclusion criteria.Results: Thirteen included studies were divided into 3 areas of impact: citation count, exposure or presence, and administrative impact. Those focusing on citation count (n=5) and exposure or presence (n=7) demonstrated positive impacts of IRs on institutions and researchers. One study focusing on administrative benefit demonstrated the utility of IRs in automated population of ORCID profiles.Conclusion: Based on the available literature, IRs appear to have a positive impact on citation count, exposure or presence, and administrative burden. To draw stronger conclusions, more and higher-quality studies are needed.

Institutional Repositories as a Global Dissemination Tool of Educational And Scientific Information

“…Most repositories run on open-source software. They are platforms for presenting and publishing scientific results not previously presented in digital format (Demetres, Delgado, & Wright 2020).…”

“…The problems of modern scientific communication system development, the functioning of open access archives, the creation and purpose of DIR, and the use of electronic documents are studied by foreign (see Lee-Hwa, Abrizah & Noorhidawati 2013, Buehler and Boateng 2005, Boulton 2020, Horwood et al 2004, Huang et al 2020, Roy 2021, Demetres, Delgado & Wright 2020, Lynch 2003) and domestic higher education researchers (see Bykov et al, 2020;Kolomiiets, Kolomiiets & Gromov, 2017;Umanets, Shevchenko & Bezugly, 2020;Perederii & Voshchenko, 2016;Spirin & Oleksyuk, 2013;Yaroshenko, 2011;Bilous, Lazarenko & Kolomiiets, 2017). Theoretical and practical aspects of open digital systems in university libraries are also studied by Ukrainian librarians (see Bruy, 2021;Bielinska & Moroz, 2013;Bilous, 2013;Oleksiuk & Oleksiuk, 2012;Perederii, 2016;Rymar et al, 2020;Spirin et al, 2020).…”

Perspective of the Institutional Digital Repository in the Protection and Diffusion of Academic Activity

“…On the type of content Demetres et al (2020) in their work of systematic and comprehensive literature review considering Ovid MEDLINE, Ovid EMBASE, Cochrane Library (Wiley), ERIC pág. 4223 (ProQuest), Web of Science (Main Collection), Scopus (Elsevier) and Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (EBSCO) databases defined the impact of repositories by content and institutions.…”

The importance of adherence to international standards for depositing open data in public repositories

“…In this context, the adequate implementation of standards for reporting of raw data for specific fields, such as the MIAME (Minimum Information About a Microarray Experiment) [ 14 ], is key in order to provide an adequate organization of files and inclusion of key metadata, with information such as description of the individuals/samples, experimental conditions and analyses [ 20 ]. Funding agencies and academic institutions from multiple countries are invited to consider the importance of open data in their policies and incentives [ 41 , 42 ]. Although it is a common practice in several journals, editors and peer reviewers of even more international publications should enforce the guidelines asking authors of manuscripts to deposit raw data [ 12 ] and scientists from around the world are invited to deposit their data in open repositories [ 20 , 25 , 43 ].…”