Web 2.0 interactivity in open access repositories

Shafi, S. M.; Gul, Sumeer; Shah, Tariq Ahmad

doi:10.1108/el-08-2011-0121

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“…Littlejohn and Pegler (2007) also confirm the use of RSS alerts and instant messaging in repositories. Shafi et al (2013) also ascertain that RSS is being used by the majority of the repositories. Shueb and Sofi (2014) highlight the Web 2.0 interactivity in the OARs and find that more than 60 percent of the repositories are Web 2.0 enabled with RSS as the main Web 2.0 tool incorporated in them followed by Facebook and Twitter correspondingly.…”

Section: Usage Statisticsmentioning

confidence: 90%

“…Web 2.0 applications in housing repositories of skills and institutional knowledge, has been researched by Livingston (2010). Shafi et al (2013) provide an overview of OARs that have embraced Web 2.0 technologies. They confirm the use of Web 2.0 tools in repositories with Really Simple Syndication (RSS) being used by the majority of the repositories followed by Social Bookmarking and Atom Syndication.…”

Section: Review Of Related Literaturementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Though some of the tools like RSS and Atom show prominence in the IRs, other tools need to be customized in them so that a more communicative set-up in the form of interactive IRs can be established. Adoption of more and more Web 2.0 tools will help to converge with an interactive learning model (Shafi et al, 2013).…”

Section: Usage Statisticsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Evaluation of institutional repositories of South Asia

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2019

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the status of institutional repositories (IRs) in the South Asian region. The various characteristic features of IRs are studied. Design/methodology/approach Open directory of open access repositories (DOAR) as a data-gathering tool was consulted for extracting the desired data. Findings India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh lead other South Asian nations in terms of IRs count. Majority of the IRs are operational in nature with higher number of operational IRs from India. In terms of record count, India leads the list. “Journal articles” outscore other content type and majority of the IRs have OAI-PMH as their base URL. DSpace stays a prioritized software for content management in IRs. Majority of the IRs have not defined their content management policies. English stays a prioritized language of the content dotting the South Asian IRs and majority of the IRs not providing usage statistics. A good score of IRs has incorporated Web 2.0 tools in them with RSS as the preferred Web 2.0 tool. A good count of the IRs has not customized their interface. Majority of the IRs have interface in two languages. Research limitations/implications The main limitation of the study is that the findings of the research are based on the data collected through the repositories indexed by Open DOAR. Originality/value The study tries to explore the characteristic features of IRs from the South Asian region.

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Section: Usage Statisticsmentioning

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Evaluation of institutional repositories of South Asia

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“…Such studies focus on issues associated with building the repository infrastructure, concentrating particularly on the challenge of populating repositories. These have featured solutions of advocacy and connecting repositories more closely to the workflows of researchers (Afshari and Jones, 2013;Bell and Sarr, 2010;Russell and Day, 2010) or institutional management (Bonilla-Calero, 2014) as well as enhancing functionality (Shafi, 2013).…”

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Making Open Access work

Pinfield

2015

Online Information Review

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Purpose: This paper is designed to provide an overview of one of the most important and controversial areas of scholarly communication: open-access publishing and dissemination of research outputs. It identifies and discusses recent trends and future challenges for various stakeholders in delivering open access (OA) to the scholarly literature.Design/methodology/approach: The study is based on a number of inter-related strands of evidence which make up the current discourse on open access, comprising the peer-reviewed literature, grey literature and other forms of communication (including blogs and email discussion lists). It uses a large-scale textual analysis of the peer-reviewed literature since 2010 (carried out using the VOSviewer tool) as a basis for discussion of issues raised in the OA discourse.Findings: A number of key themes are identified, including the relationship between G OA (deposit in repositories) and G OA (OA journal publication), the developing evidence base associated with OA, researcher attitudes and behaviours, policy directions, management of repositories, development of journals, institutional responses, and issues around impact and scholarly communication futures. It suggests that current challenges now focus on how OA can be made to work in practice, having moved on from the discussion of whether it should happen at all. Originality/value: The paper provides a structured evidence-based review of major issues in the OA field, and suggests key areas for future research and policy development.

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“…Bhat limited the repository target using information (the number of items available in the repository, the repository language, and subject area) provided by OpenDOAR. Shafi et al (2013) conducted a study by applying Web 2.0 technology and the study target was the repository registered in OpenDOAR. Norris et al (2008) performed a study on effective tools to search the open access academic papers reviewed by peers, and the analysis targets were the open access papers in the fields of ecology, economics and sociology.…”

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confidence: 99%

Global data repository status and analysis: based on Korea, China and Japan

Kim

Lee

2014

Library Hi Tech

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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to collect the global status data of digital repositories automatically and analyzed it by building a database. For analysis criteria the following were utilized: first, China, Japan and Republic of Korea (CJK) repository operational status; second, language of the repository content; third, repository type, fourth, repository of CJK by subject area; fifth, the amount of repository content; and sixth, repository software. Design/methodology/approach – OpenDOAR and ROAR services were used as the sources to obtain the information on the digital repository. Those sources are representative services that provide the digital repository registration services and are used as sources in a variety of studies. A six kinds of data analysis criteria: first, CJK repository operational status; second, language of the repository content; third, repository type; fourth, repository of CJK by subject area; fifth, the amount of repository content; and sixth, repository software were utilized. Findings – First, CJK is operating 288 repositories (8 percent compared to the world, 42.2 percent compared to Asia). Second, the repositories that provide Japanese, Chinese and Korean contents are 5.57 percent, 4.14 percent and 0.72 percent, respectively. Third, the repository operated by the government is inadequate in Asia. Fourth, in Korea and Japan, the repositories in the field of humanities and social sciences appeared all in the top 10. Fifth, Korea provides 1,342,845 cases of contents (0.81 percent compared to the global). Sixth, the “DSpace” software is most widely utilized as a repository system and it is the same in CJK. Originality/value – This results of this study can be used to identify the repository status in Korea compared to global and to CJK, and can be utilized as a basis to determine the direction of the repository promotion and policy in Korea and also to administer the national R&D budget.

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Web 2.0 interactivity in open access repositories

Cited by 12 publications

References 26 publications

Evaluation of institutional repositories of South Asia

Evaluation of institutional repositories of South Asia

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Global data repository status and analysis: based on Korea, China and Japan

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