Towards user responsive institutional repositories: a case study

Devakos, Rea

doi:10.1108/07378830610669556

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“…Creation of hands-on demonstrations and step-by-step online tutorials instructing users how to deposit information in an institution's online repository may help to instill confidence about the relatively short amount of time needed to post information online. Additionally, Devakos (2006) believes it is unrealistic to expect individual faculty members to submit materials and believes the implementation of the IR at the University of Toronto to be successful since any possible time burdens perceived by researchers was reduced by employing student assistants to upload materials.…”

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confidence: 98%

Institutional Digital Repositories for Science and Technology: A View from the Laboratory

Brown

Abbas

2010

Journal of Library Administration

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Institutions across the United States are actively creating institutional repositories (IRs) and an array of field-specific online collections, especially in the biological sciences. The 20 earth and biological scientists interviewed for this article embrace online resources for use in their research, teaching, and creative activities and, although previously unaware of the functions of an IR, unanimously support the development of one at the University of Oklahoma. The ability to share scholarly information across campus and to securely archive data are seen as valuable attributes of an IR. Despite their endorsement, participants have little interest in spending time and effort in creating an IR beyond voluntarily submitting their published works.

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Institutional Digital Repositories for Science and Technology: A View from the Laboratory

Brown

Abbas

2010

Journal of Library Administration

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“…The same is true for entering metadata for their work. 9 Their sense of control may also be threatened by any limitations that may be imposed on substituting later iterations of their work for earlier versions.…”

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Reducing Psychological Resistance to Digital Repositories

Quinn¹

2010

ITAL

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The potential value of digital repositories is dependent on the cooperation of scholars to deposit their work. Although many researchers have been resistant to submitting their work, the literature on digital repositories contains very little research on the psychology of resistance. This article looks at the psychological literature on resistance and explores what its implications might be for reducing the resistance of scholars to submitting their work to digital repositories. Psychologists have devised many potentially useful strategies for reducing resistance that might be used to address the problem; this article examines these strategies and how they might be applied.

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“…This attitude is lamented by Dorothea Salo, who wrote that a self-service only approach to repositories had been "an abject failure thus far" and went on to comment specifically regarding the lack of assistance for batch Importation of a historic scientific serial 243 importing (2008). At the University of Toronto, the library found that collections for which mediated or assisted submission was provided were far more successful and as a result expanded their batch importing efforts (Devakos, 2006). In addition, batch import assistance was a recommended service for institutional repositories by Barton and Waters (2004).…”

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Automating the importation of a historic scientific serial into a digital repository

Creel

Koenig²,

McGeachin³

2010

OCLC Systems &Amp; Services: International Digital Library Perspectives

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Purpose -The purpose of this paper is to describe the transition of a collection in Texas A&M University's institutional repository from single item submission to batch importation as a primary method of ingest. This transition was made possible with assistance and technical work on behalf of the library. Design/methodology/approach -The digital initiatives staff examined the workflow of the collection's manager and submitters. A process was created to produce the necessary data structures for batch import from resources that were already being generated by the collection workflow. Findings -It was found that batch importing assistance provided by the library improved the collection's growth rate and efficiency without interrupting the workflow of the collection management team. Practical implications -This paper demonstrates the benefit of libraries and other institutional repository hosts offering batch-loading assistance to managers of large repository collections. Originality/value -This paper should resonate with institutional repository managers and digital services librarians, as many have neglected to offer batch importing or other assistance to users citing a lack of resources.

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Towards user responsive institutional repositories: a case study

Cited by 21 publications

References 8 publications

Institutional Digital Repositories for Science and Technology: A View from the Laboratory

Institutional Digital Repositories for Science and Technology: A View from the Laboratory

Reducing Psychological Resistance to Digital Repositories

Automating the importation of a historic scientific serial into a digital repository

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