Understanding Faculty to Improve Content Recruitment for Institutional Repositories

Institutional Repositories: Faculty Deposits, Marketing, and the Reform of Scholarly Communication

“…The term institutional repository conveys a different meaning to faculty---suggesting something about institutions but not about faculty scholarship. 35 The significant and serious challenge of populating IR content with faculty work has also been noted by the latest survey on IR by the members of the Association of Research Libraries. 36 Indeed, all four surveys mentioned earlier indicated that content recruitment is one of the biggest challenges in successfully implementing an IR.…”

Creating a multipurpose digital institutional repository

“…A theme throughout the IR literature is the challenge of growing content in repositories (Allard, 2005;Buehler and Boateng, 2005;Foster and Gibbons, 2005). Recognizing this challenge, the Catherwood Library made a commitment that once a faculty member expressed interest in participation, DigitalCommons@ILR project staff would do most of the work related to getting the content into the repository.…”

Open access, open source and e‐theses: the development of the Edinburgh Research Archive

“…Consequently, a number of studies have been carried out to investigate working practices (Foster and Gibbons, 2005;Andrew, 2003;Hey, 2004).…”