Focus on Access to Institutional Resources: A Synthesis of the Jisc Fair Programme

Awre, Chris; Baldwin, Christine

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“…CARL project of Canada (Shearer, 2003), DARE project of Dutch government (Van der Vaart, 2002) and LEADIRS project of UK (Barton and Waters, 2004), provided financial and intellectual support to the institutions to implement an IR. The Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) encouraged the development of IRs in the Institutions of UK by conducting 14 projects including RoMEO, SHERPA, ePrintsUK, TARDis and DAEDALUS (Awre and Baldwin, 2005). Ware (2004) surveyed 45 IRs in the UK, and he noticed that reasonable number of IRs have grown, but the content growth was extremely low.…”

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Content growth of institutional repositories in South India: a status report

Shajitha

Majeed

2018

Global Knowledge, Memory and Communication

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Purpose The purpose of this study was to evaluate the content growth of institutional repositories (IR) in South India and analyse the type-wise growth of items available in these IRs and also discuss the traits and trends exposed by them. Design/methodology/approach With the help of Registry of Open Access Repositories and Directory of Open Access Repositories (OpenDOAR), 39 repositories were located in south India. From these, Personal websites, the IRs that are currently not working and the repositories used for journal archiving were excluded. A total of 22 operational IRs at 21 institutions were identified for the study. Within a 15 month period, the data were collected from the 22 IRs twice for monitoring content growth. Findings The content of nearly all IRs have grown over the 15 month period, and the overall content growth rate was 7.82 per cent. Journal articles were the important content type of IRs, while thesis and conference papers were the next common. Moreover, item monographs exhibited the highest growth rate. Other categories, conference proceedings, and conference papers also exhibited a high growth rate. The present study revealed that Indian repositories were actively engaged in data curation activities, depositing a wide variety of items in their respective IRs. Overall, South Indian repositories exhibited a slow growth rate and tended to become inactive. Most South Indian Universities had not constituted the IRs, which led to the dominance of English language material in these IRs. Research limitations/implications The study was conducted only in South Indian IRs. Originality/value This is the first study in India, attempting to determine the type-wise growth of items in IRs.

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Content growth of institutional repositories in South India: a status report

Shajitha

Majeed

2018

Global Knowledge, Memory and Communication

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“…A number of JISC-funded development projects and programmes in the early part of this decade made use and highlighted the value of digital repositories (e.g. Awre and Baldwin, 2005;Jerez et al, 2006), leading to the launch of a Digital Repositories Programme [2] in 2005. The Linking UK Repositories study was funded by JISC in December 2005 [3] within this programme to identify appropriate sustainable technical and organisational models to support end-user oriented services, those presenting a user-facing interface, across institutional and other digital repositories, primarily those exposing content on open access, within higher and further education.…”

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Swan²

2007

OCLC Systems &Amp; Services: International Digital Library Perspectives

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Purpose -The purpose of the linking repositories study was to conduct research to identify appropriate sustainable technical and organisational models to support the development of end-user oriented services across repositories. The work covered four overlapping strands: user and community requirements, roles and responsibilities, technical architecture and infrastructure, and business and management models. Design/methodology/approach -Interviews, focus groups and a questionnaire were used to elicit the knowledge held. This information was combined with a literature review and reported alongside the proposed models derived from an analysis of the information gathered. Findings -Five distinct groups of end-users were identified and their respective roles and responsibilities identified. Relevant services to serve these groups were also identified and a services model constructed showing the relationships between them. An aggregation model is proposed to support technical development. A range of business models are suggested, each of which may be applicable in different circumstances.Research limitations/implications -The models contain a series of recommendations for subsequent research and testing to establish the relative merits of the models proposed and develop these further. Practical implications -The technical model in particular makes a number of practical recommendations for how repositories need to be structured so as to best support end-user services. These are complementary to recommendations on repository management. Originality/value -The research reported in this paper represents a consolidation of views reported previously, and a novel analysis of this information to assist in taking repository service development further.

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Universities, Jisc and the journey to open

Jacobs

Nixon

2021

Technology, Change and the Academic Library

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Focus on Access to Institutional Resources: A Synthesis of the Jisc Fair Programme

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Content growth of institutional repositories in South India: a status report

Content growth of institutional repositories in South India: a status report

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Universities, Jisc and the journey to open

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