« This paper examines issues relating to the perceptions and adoption of open access (OA) and institutional repositories. Using a survey research design, we collected data from academics and other researchers in the humanities, arts and social sciences (HASS) at a university in Australia. We looked at factors influencing choice of…
« Self-archiving in Institutional Repositories (IRs) is playing a central role in the success of the Open Access initiatives. Deposited documents are more visible and probably they get more downloads and citations, but making them freely available in a local repository is not enough. Social tools, both public and academic targeting,…
« The British Library, working with a group of cultural and memory organisations, is piloting a shared repository service for research content built on an open source platform. The repository aims to increase the visibility and impact of research outputs, making the knowledge generated by cultural institutions easier to explore and…
« The British Library intends to establish a research repository infrastructure to support a number of services, including a new institutional repository for our own research outputs, a new solution for two or more research-supporting digital collections managed by the Library, and as a shared service for the research outputs of…
« In November 2017, the COAR Next Generation Repositories Working Group published a report outlining new behaviours and technologies for repositories.
The aim is to position repositories as the foundation for a distributed, globally networked infrastructure for scholarly communication, on top of which layers of value added services…
« The European Science Foundation (ESF) and the Historical Archives of the European Union (HAEU) are pleased to announce that the historical archives of the ESF are now available for consultation by researchers and the interested public at the HAEU in Florence.
« OATAO – l’archive institutionnelle et mutualisée des établissements Toulouse INP (Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse), ENVT (École Nationale Vétérinaire de Toulouse), ISAE-SUPAERO (Institut Supérieur de l’Aéronautique et de l’Espace) et ENSFEA (École Nationale Supérieure de Formation de l’Enseignement Agricole) – et IdRef – application…
« The report, Behaviours and Technical Recommendations of the COAR Next Generation Repositories Working Group is now available.
The next generation repositories work is based on a set of principles and design assumptions.
COAR’s vision is to position repositories as the foundation for a distributed,…
« This fall, the Penn Libraries will begin exploring open source options for hosting Penn’s institutional repository, ScholarlyCommons, which provides free and open access to scholarly works created by Penn faculty, staff and students.
For 13 years, Penn Libraries has hosted ScholarlyCommons on the platform…
« The popularity of academic social networks like ResearchGate and Academia.edu indicates that scholars want to share their work, yet for universities with Open Access (OA) policies, these sites may be competing with institutional repositories (IRs) for content. This article seeks to reveal researcher practices, attitudes, and motivations around uploading their…
