Institutional repositories and scholarly publishing

Ware, Mark

doi:10.1087/095315104322958490

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“…The other reasons that were highly ranked included: the likelihood that open access publications would be misused or plagiarised (51%); the general perception that open access publications were of low quality compared to traditional publications (55,2%); and researchers' worry about the long-term availability of open access publications (35,4%). These findings corroborate previous studies that found that uncertainties over later publishing of open access articles elsewhere, violation of publishers' copyrights, and plagiarism of open access papers are among the cited respondents' deterrents for their contribution to institutional repositories (Fang and Zhu 2006;Foster and Gibbons 2005;Hirwade and Rajyalakshmi 2005;Kim 2006;Pickton 2005;Ware 2004;Xu 2005). It is necessary to address these challenges to foster the adoption of open access in Tanzania and other institutions elsewhere with a similar research environment.…”

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Researchers' perspectives on open access scholarly communication in Tanzanian public universities

Dulle¹,

Minishi-Majanja²

2009

S. Afr. j. inf. manag.

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This research explored the awareness, usage and perspectives of Tanzanian researchers on open access as a mode of scholarly communication. A survey questionnaire targeted 544 respondents selected through stratified random sampling from a population of 1088 university researchers of the six public universities in Tanzania. With a response rate of 73%, the data were analysed using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences. The study reveals that the majority of the researchers were aware of and were positive towards open access. Findings further indicate that the majority of researchers in Tanzanian public universities used open access outlets more to access scholarly content than to disseminate their own research findings. It seems that most of these researchers would support open access publishing more if issues of recognition, quality and ownership were resolved. Thus many of them supported the idea of establishing institutional repositories at their respective universities as a way of improving the dissemination of local content. The study recommends that public universities and other research institutions in the country should consider establishing institutional repositories, with appropriate quality assurance measures, to improve the dissemination of research output emanating from these institutions.

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Section: Researchers' Self-efficacy Fears and Misconceptionssupporting

confidence: 90%

Researchers' perspectives on open access scholarly communication in Tanzanian public universities

Dulle¹,

Minishi-Majanja²

2009

S. Afr. j. inf. manag.

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“…However, there are two categories of platforms which, when appropriately combined and customized, may result in the desired system: repository systems and spatial data infrastructure frameworks. The first category, web-based repository systems (Roy, 2015;Simons & Richardson, 2013;Ware, 2004), are able to store any kind of digital item, to keep metadata in accordance with recognized standards, to offer strong searching and browsing utilities, and to support the whole content depositing process.…”

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Supporting insular research and development through the ‘Archipelago’ information system

Vaitis¹,

Kopsachilis²,

Papapanos³

et al. 2017

ISJ

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Information systems play a crucial role in supporting decision-making for managing and administrating territories at different levels of authority. Unfortunately, most such information systems are not dedicated to or customized for the special needs imposed by islands. In this work we describe the design, implementation, and operation of the 'Archipelago' digital repository, an integrated information system for supporting island research and development. The main objectives of the system are the storage, documentation, and dissemination of any kind of data regarding islands, as well as the provision of cartographic facilities for searching, visualization, and comparison. The basic principle of the system is the ability to geographically designate any stored material. The system is compatible with the standards for digital information documentation and interoperability, and it is based on free and open-source software tools.

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“…It is an institutionally defined collection of scholarly research outputs that provide open or free access to all users within and outside the institution and complies with global standards for interoperability [1]. Institutional repositories have increasingly been recognized as important tools for scholarly communication and are a key source of institutional visibility and a workable tool for knowledge management within an institution.…”

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Towards a Web-based Digital Repository: Identification of Needs and Behavior of Users

Mgonzo¹,

Yonah²

2014

IJCA

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Web usage behavior of users have an impact on the development of a web-based application. Web usage analysis is therefore necessary so as to better serve the needs of a webbased application. The process involves analyzing interaction of a user with a web application. Web usage analysis provides useful information that can help improve the service delivery and functioning of a web-based system. The aim of the study reported in this paper is to elicit and study users' needs and requirements towards establishment of an institutional webbased repository for scholarly communication. Questionnaires were used to collect data that reflected web usage behavior and the underlying technical, legal and financial requirements. Analysis results show that there is high usage of the internet as a source of scholarly information and users access their institution websites regularly. Although there is no proper resource management system, the legal requirement for publishing guarantees high research throughput. Results also show that majority of researchers consulted support repository establishment as alternative publishing platform to remove subscription and distribution barriers imposed by journals. In addition, most web usage studies have been system focused. Statistics extracted from web log files and web usage behavior from the users' perspective revealed useful information from which a requirements specification model is developed for the proposed repository system. General TermsRequirements, repository, user needs, user-centered approach.

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Institutional repositories and scholarly publishing

Cited by 106 publications

References 3 publications

Researchers' perspectives on open access scholarly communication in Tanzanian public universities

Researchers' perspectives on open access scholarly communication in Tanzanian public universities

Supporting insular research and development through the ‘Archipelago’ information system

Towards a Web-based Digital Repository: Identification of Needs and Behavior of Users

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