An Integrative View of the Institutional Repositories in Hong Kong: Strategies and Challenges

Chan, Diana L.H.

doi:10.1016/j.serrev.2009.04.002

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“…Most faculties do not respond to the invitation to "add stuff to the IR" (Bankier and Perciali, 2008, p. 21;Harnad, 2009). Often low deposit rates are attributed to a lack of institutional policies and mandatory requirements, in addition to the lack of motivation and low priority for faculty members and researchers (Chan, 2009). Some universities and institutes have implemented mandatory research depository systems, such as Hong Kong and Harvard universities.…”

Section: Difficulties In Generating Contentmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In-house development of IRs is time consuming, labour intensive and requires long-term sustained efforts (Robinson, 2009;Chan, 2009). This time-consuming factor encumbers the success of an independent IR.…”

Section: Time Consuming and Labour Intensivementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Literature notes that IRs benefits are not properly marketed and, therefore, they are not well appreciated by all academic institutions and academic staff (Chan, 2009).…”

Section: Ir Benefits Not Marketed and Appreciatedmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Librarians need to know all about the IR, its principles, benefits and operational processes in order to promote it and act as "IR evangelists" (Ashworth, 2006). Then, in addition to promoting the salience of the IR, librarians can contribute by removing barriers and simplifying the administrative process for faculty to deposit their research output (Chan, 2009). Indeed, they can assume the lead role in the operational management of the IR by liaising with the IT department and acting as collection administrators and metadata specialists.…”

Section: Roles and Responsibilities In An Irmentioning

confidence: 99%

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New trends and future applications/directions of institutional repositories in academic institutions

Jain

2011

Library Review

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Purpose -The purpose of this paper is to review the recent literature about institutional repositories (IRs) including the benefits and possible obstacles of setting up an IR. It will also discuss librarians' and authors' participative roles and open access. In conclusion, the paper aims to consider the future of IRs and finally makes recommendations for their successful implementation in academic institutions. Design/methodology/approach -This paper is based on the recently published literature discussing current trends in IRs; although, some historical reference is also necessary to provide background to the open access movement and the early development of IRs. Given that the paper is an account of the history and current status of IRs, a formal documented methodology is not applicable. Findings -The discussion suggests that in spite of all the obstacles to successful implementation, including associated negative perceptions, IRs have been increasingly recognised as a vital tool for scholarly communication and an important source of institutional visibility and a viable source of institutional knowledge management. Research limitations/implications -This paper is an expression of opinion about current trends and future applications of IRs. It is not based on any formal methodology. This paper will be useful for librarians, academic staff and academic institutions generally, especially in developing countries where IRs are still in a developmental stage. Therefore, some of the general recommendations may not be as relevant for those institutions with well-established and flourishing IRs. Practical implications -The paper is aimed at institutions with low-use repositories. It can be used to persuade management to establish institutional policies and it can also be helpful in clarifying the role of the library. It is also aimed at institutions considering initial development of an IR. The paper outlines the implications for IR practice for different groups, namely authors, librarians and academic administrative staff. It could, therefore, be used to persuade and influence different sets of stakeholders at institutions with under-populated or embryonic IRs, about the value of open access, the importance of depositing material and the potential functionality afforded by IR packages. Originality/value -The paper provides a review of the status of IRs and brings together topics previously reported on in isolation.

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Section: Difficulties In Generating Contentmentioning

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Section: Time Consuming and Labour Intensivementioning

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“…Literature notes that IRs benefits are not properly marketed and, therefore, they are not well appreciated by all academic institutions and academic staff (Chan, 2009).…”

Section: Ir Benefits Not Marketed and Appreciatedmentioning

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Jain

2011

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“…A study of institutional repositories in Hong Kong from 2009 observes that only about 3% of the conference articles published by Hong Kong researchers since 10 years back are openly accessible in full text via the institutional repositories of the universities [2]. The numbers indicate the difficulty to self-archive conference articles.…”

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Accessibility and self-archiving of conference articles: A study on a selection of Swedish institutional repositories1

Linde

Eriksson

Kullman

et al. 2012

ISU

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Abstract. The main purpose of this project has been to examine the accessibility of refereed conference articles and the OA-and publishing policies of conferences in order to in this way elucidate different aspects concerning self-archiving in Swedish institutional repositories. For this purpose, the project participants have examined a number of conferences and references to conference articles via their institutional repositories during a specific time period and described these from the perspective of a common scheme. The study has showed that the local institutional repositories fill an important role to make conference publications visible. We have found that ca. 50 % of the conference papers can be published as postprints in our institutional repositories. We have noticed that ca. 15% or the studied conference articles are not available at all. It is, therefore, of great importance to use local institutional repositories as a publishing channel, not only for primary published material such as dissertations and reports, but also as a source for finding these conference articles "without a home". Between 20-25 % of the examined articles were found in some type of OA archive; ca. half of these were found in one of the project participants' own institutional repositories. This indicates that the publishing database of respective higher education institution is an important factor for open accessibility. Ca. 10% of the conferences in the study had an explicit OA policy or expressed such a policy by openly making conference articles accessible on their conference sites. A big problem when it comes to selfarchiving of conference articles is the lack of information about OA policy. The landscape of conference publishing is complex and the self-archiving of documents from conferences is very time-consuming. Above all, we would wish a policy resource for conferences similar to the SHERPA/RoMEO. At present, however, there is no other alternative than scrutinizing the conferences' copyright information to the authors and from this attempt to draw conclusions about possible self-archiving. To facilitate the future handling and classification of conference articles in Swedish institutional repositories a number of recommendations are suggested.

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Establishing a University Library Institutional Repository Based on DSpace and DIPS System

Li¹,

Cheng²,

Lin³

2011

Energy Procedia

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An Integrative View of the Institutional Repositories in Hong Kong: Strategies and Challenges

Cited by 8 publications

References 11 publications

New trends and future applications/directions of institutional repositories in academic institutions

New trends and future applications/directions of institutional repositories in academic institutions

Accessibility and self-archiving of conference articles: A study on a selection of Swedish institutional repositories1

Establishing a University Library Institutional Repository Based on DSpace and DIPS System

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