The purpose of institutional repositories in UK higher education: A repository manager's view

Rumsey, Sally

doi:10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2006.01.002

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“…Os RI, enquanto infraestruturas que permitem a organização, preservação e disseminação da informação (PINFIELD, 2009), facilitam o acesso aos conteúdos científicos, de diversas tipologias. Os RI contribuem para o aumento da visibilidade, prestígio e impacto da investigação, não só dos investigadores como também da própria instituição, alinhando-se com os requisitos de órgãos externos, como sejam as agências de financiamento de ciência (RUMSEY, 2006). No caso das instituições de ensino superior (IES), as bibliotecas académicas e de investigação são as responsáveis pelo desenvolvimento e gestão dos seus repositórios, o que inclui responsabilidades de organização, gestão e disseminação da informação e de preservação, além dos papéis de mediadoras da informação e de promoção do AA.…”

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Competências para a gestão de um repositório institucional: o caso do repositório institucional da Universidade de Coimbra

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Rev Eletron Comun Inf Inov Saúde

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É num cenário de abertura crescente da ciência, mais amplo e complexo, que se impõem novas competências aos gestores de repositórios. Este estudo visa identificar os papéis e as competências necessárias à gestão e organização de um repositório institucional. Trata-se de um estudo qualitativo com observação participante, suportado pela revisão da literatura, que permitiu refletir sobre o papel dos gestores de repositórios e as competências que devem reunir no âmbito da ciência aberta, tendo como estudo de caso o Estudo Geral, o repositório institucional da Universidade de Coimbra. Embora as funções de um gestor de repositório tenham origem no campo da Ciência da Informação, o conjunto de competências a reunir é amplo e interdisciplinar, destacando-se aquelas ao nível da comunicação científica, das tecnologias digitais, da gestão e da comunicação, da técnica e da gestão de conteúdos.

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Competências para a gestão de um repositório institucional: o caso do repositório institucional da Universidade de Coimbra

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Neves

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“…• satisfy funding requirements and demands for open access; • reduce its lack of discoverability or loss; • enable other researchers to test the reliability and validity of the data and the research method; • enable greater impact of research and make tracking more accurate; and • extend collaborative opportunities between researchers and teams working on similar and related projects to create new research opportunities. IRs are primarily tasked with offering a place to manage and disseminate materials; a means for increasing an institution's visibility, status and public value; and a means for evaluating the university's research output (Rockman et al, 2005;Bonilla-Calero, 2013, Rumsey, 2006. According to Rumsey, an IR is an open access "searchable, digital archive of materials emanating from an institution, usually scholarly but not limited to journal articles, which are usually available in their entirety" (Rumsey, 2006).…”

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“…IRs are primarily tasked with offering a place to manage and disseminate materials; a means for increasing an institution's visibility, status and public value; and a means for evaluating the university's research output (Rockman et al, 2005;Bonilla-Calero, 2013, Rumsey, 2006. According to Rumsey, an IR is an open access "searchable, digital archive of materials emanating from an institution, usually scholarly but not limited to journal articles, which are usually available in their entirety" (Rumsey, 2006). In Australia, by 2006 all Australian universities had established IR services (Simons & Richardson, 2012).…”

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Getting to Grips with NTROs (visual arts data): The Role of Repositories and Libraries in Their Management

Burgess¹

2021

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“…The main goal of IR programmes is to improve scholarly communication (Benjelloun, 2005). This is achieved by improving access to research-related information, making it easier for researchers to disseminate and share their research results with the community, managing and preserving the digital content of the institution community, and extending the influence of a library within an institution (Benjelloun, 2005;Hockx-Yu, 2006;Genoni, 2004;Piorun, Palmer & Comes, 2007;Rumsey, 2006). IR programmes aim to give free and unrestricted access to their content online to their target community (Hockx-Yu, 2006).…”

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Electronic Theses and Dissertations Programmes in the Arab Gulf States: Exploring factors affecting their adoption and development

Salmi¹

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<p>An increasing number of academic institutions all over the world have begun to adopt and develop electronic theses and dissertations (ETD) programmes. The adoption and development of these programmes is influenced by many factors. Despite considerable discussion on these factors in different countries, little has been written on the adoption and development of such programmes in the Arab Gulf States. Moreover, there has been no in-depth research-based investigation into the enablers and barriers that may have an impact on the adoption and development of ETD programmes in the Gulf States. Using a sequential exploratory design and mixed methods, this study attempts to fill this knowledge gap. The study explores the perceived enablers and barriers influencing the adoption and development of ETD programmes in the Arab Gulf States. It also develops a framework that outlines the factors influencing the adoption and development of ETD programmes in the Gulf States. The study is primarily qualitative, using semi-structured, face-to-face interviews in conjunction with the analysis of relevant documents to identify, develop an understanding of, and create a picture of the situation in the Gulf States in terms of the factors affecting the adoption and development of ETD programmes. The interviews cover the key stakeholders, which include postgraduate students, library managers, system administrators, postgraduate officers and academic staff. Forty-five participants from five universities in the Gulf States were interviewed. The results of the interviews provided the necessary information to undertake the second phase of the study (online survey). The primary aim of this was to test and explore, in a larger sample, the issues identified in the interviews. Three hundred and nine participants from four universities in the Gulf States completed the online survey. The results of the survey helped to confirm and complement the findings of the interviews. The research findings revealed that several factors were perceived to affect the adoption and development of ETD programmes in the Gulf States. These included the appreciation of the benefits of ETD programmes, the availability of the required resources to support ETD programmes, the perceived complexity of the technological processes as well as a number of social factors. An initial framework for analysis was developed using concepts from the literature review combined with the constructs of the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT). The initial framework highlighted several enablers and barriers to the adoption and development of ETD programmes. Based on the research findings, further enablers and barriers emerged that had not been outlined in the preliminary research framework. These included concerns surrounding the perceived quality and quantity of theses and dissertations, which were perceived due to the newness of research programmes in the Gulf States. ETD programmes were perceived as increasing the currently limited availability of Arabic research on the internet. Moreover, as these states have strong economies, academic institutions were mostly equipped with the required technological infrastructure. In addition, the initial framework did not highlight any kind of influence between the five factors. However, the current research findings revealed that these five factors were interdependent and that some factors have an influence on the others. This is reflected in the revised framework. The preliminary framework also did not indicate which factor was the most influential, while the revised framework shows that the contextual factors were found to be influencing the institutional factors and this, in turn, influenced the personal perceptions. The revised framework is intended to provide guidance for universities and academic institutions in the Gulf States in adopting and developing ETD programmes. It is also hoped that by understanding the influencing factors, universities and academic institutions will be better placed to plan for and make informed investment decisions regarding the adoption and development of ETD programmes and that this will lead to their successful adoption and development in the Gulf States.</p>

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The purpose of institutional repositories in UK higher education: A repository manager's view

Cited by 9 publications

References 1 publication

Competências para a gestão de um repositório institucional: o caso do repositório institucional da Universidade de Coimbra

Competências para a gestão de um repositório institucional: o caso do repositório institucional da Universidade de Coimbra

Getting to Grips with NTROs (visual arts data): The Role of Repositories and Libraries in Their Management

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Programmes in the Arab Gulf States: Exploring factors affecting their adoption and development

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