Institutional Repositories: Exploration of Costs and Value

Undercounting File Downloads from Institutional Repositories

“…Others also reinforce that specific measures based on quantifiable data will resonate, even if those reports must be customized to the audience. "By providing useful and appropriate statistics to authors, departments, the university, and other stakeholders, the library demonstrates its value as a vital partner in research, scholarship, and scholarly communication" (Bruns & Inefuku, 2016). Bruns and Inefuku count item downloads among a number of metrics that should be assembled based on institutional mission and on audience.…”

Measuring the gap between perceived importance and actual performance of institutional repositories

“…When the significance of an IR is not understood, the value of its services may be underestimated and, consequently, organizational support to ensure IR survival and growth may dwindle. This is further complicated by the fact that IRs are not yet universally accepted by faculty as necessary (Burns, Lana, & Budd, 2013). Lynch (2003) argues that hosting an IR is a "stewardship [that] is easy and inexpensive to claim; [but] it is expensive and difficult to honor, and perhaps it will prove to be all too easy to later abdicate" (Section 4, para.…”

A Comparative Study of Platforms for Research Data Management: Interoperability, Metadata Capabilities and Integration Potential

“…The management of these valuable assets is currently a concern for both researchers and science managers who have to streamline scholarly communication, while keeping record of research contributions and ensuring the correct licensing of their contents [1,2]. A gradual increase in the number of research publications, combined with a strong drive towards open access policies [3,4], have led to the development of several open-source platforms for managing bibliographic records. At the same time, academic institutions have new mandates for the management of their research data [5], increasing the demand for infrastructures that can support these activities.…”