Building an institutional repository at Loughborough University: some experiences

Barwick, Joanna

doi:10.1108/00330330710742890

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“…Furthermore, ETD programs increasingly gain more and more appreciation from postgraduate students, academic staff, librarians and publishers. In recent years, supervisors, research students, and university librarians have become well aware of the ETD initiative (Barwick, 2007;Seamans, 2003;Vijayakumar, Murthy and Khan, 2007). Awareness of these programs seems also to have had an impact on the successful adoption of these programs.…”

Section: Factors Encouraging the Adoption And Development Of Etd Programsmentioning

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Factors Influencing the Adoption and Development of Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD) Programs, with Particular Reference to the Arab Gulf States

Salmi

2008

Information Development

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This paper aims to establish the framework for understanding the positive and negative factors affecting the adoption and development of electronic theses and dissertations (ETD) programs with particular reference to the situation in the Arab Gulf States. The reviewed literature shows that several interrelated factors have been found to encourage the adoption and development of ETD programs in university libraries: the appreciation of the benefits of ETD programs, awareness of these programs, and effective promotional and advocacy work that lead to cultural changes related to views on ETD programs. With regard to the Arab Gulf States, even though there is a lack of available literature, it appears that university libraries have the required infrastructure for encouraging the adoption and development of ETD programs. On the other hand some factors have been found to discourage the adoption of ETD programs. These include: technological factors, legal issues and other administrative issues. With regard to the Arab Gulf States, the available literature shows that some of the influencing factors are the same as those found in other countries, especially administrative and technological factors. In conclusion, it seems that most issues influencing the adoption and development of ETD programs can be resolved by undertaking appropriate promotional and advocacy activities.

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Section: Factors Encouraging the Adoption And Development Of Etd Programsmentioning

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Factors Influencing the Adoption and Development of Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD) Programs, with Particular Reference to the Arab Gulf States

Salmi

2008

Information Development

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“…Faculty members generally have a misunderstanding about what rights an author has to their work after they have signed a copyright transfer agreement. Barwick (2007) stated that Vice Chancellor of Loughborough University endorsed a policy encouraging their staff to retain their copyright whenever possible.…”

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Developing an institutional repository: experiences at the library, Faculty of Medicine, University of Jaffna

Murugathas

Balasooriya

2015

Jnl Univ. Librarians Assoc. Sri Lanka

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Institutional repository is a network accessible database, with a set of services to capture, store, index, preserve and disseminates an institution's scholarly output in digital format. The main objective of the paper is to discuss the experiences in developing an institutional repository at faculty of medicine, university of Jaffna and suggestions to overcome the challenges. Further, to encourage the other universities in developing institutional repositories by emphasizing the benefits of an institutional repository in a university and also focuses on some key issues to be considered when developing a repository. The repository of university of Jaffna, faculty of medicine is functioning in the software D-Space with a dedicated server. Formulating collection policy, authority control of bibliographic details, checking the copyright policy and persuading the faculty members to deposit their publications were the major challenges focused in this study. More effort is needed to persuade researchers to deposit their publications. Librarians need to continue to educate them about the importance of institutional repository. Sharing experience in developing institutional repository would be useful to other universities.

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“…This project started in February 2013. During its establishment valuable experiences were learned as described in the articles of numerous authors (Bevan, 2005;Barwick, 2007;Doctor and Ramachandran, 2008;Jantz and Wilson, 2008;Tripathi and Jeevan, 2011;Paul, 2012).…”

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Establishing of a Slovenian open access infrastructure: a technical point of view

Ojsteršek

Brezovnik

Kotar

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Purpose-This paper presents a technical perspective when implementing the Slovenian open access infrastructure that consists of four institutional repositories and a national portal that aggregates content from the repositories in order to provide a common search engine, recommendations of similar documents, and similar text detection. Design/methodology/approach-During the project, the necessary legal background and processes for mandatory submissions of final study works, research publications and research data were established, as well as processes for data exchange between the institutional repositories and the national portal, and processes for similar text detection. Findings-The consortium consisted of four Slovenian universities that significantly differ in size, organisation, and workflows. It was anticipated that exactly the same legal background and software would be used for the four repositories. It turned out that complete unification was impossible due to the differences. Practical implication-The national open access infrastructure will improve the visibility of Slovenian research organisations. It supports the compliance with the funders' open access mandates. The established infrastructure enables the depositing and archiving of approximately eighty percent of the peer-reviewed scientific publications that are annually published by Slovenian researchers. At the same time, the majority of final study works from Slovenian higher education institutions are available in full-text format. Originality/value-This paper describes a technical perspective for setting up a national open access infrastructure, which has not been described in the literature previously.

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Building an institutional repository at Loughborough University: some experiences

Cited by 30 publications

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Factors Influencing the Adoption and Development of Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD) Programs, with Particular Reference to the Arab Gulf States

Factors Influencing the Adoption and Development of Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD) Programs, with Particular Reference to the Arab Gulf States

Developing an institutional repository: experiences at the library, Faculty of Medicine, University of Jaffna

Establishing of a Slovenian open access infrastructure: a technical point of view

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