Measuring Value in Open Access Repositories

Open access institutional repositories were created to promote access to information, encourage scholarly communication, and demonstrate institutional prestige. While these repositories have been widely adopted, the quality of their contents often fails to represent their institution's scholarly output. Moreover, current research uses measurements of quantity, not quality, to assess their value. In response, this article opens new areas of scholarly inquiry by assessing the quality of contents. This is accomplished through a cross-sectional study of repositories at American colleges and universities across the academic spectrum, using citation indexing to identify an institution's articles and authors of highest impact.     

An Overview of Open Access in the Fields of Business and Management

The extent to which scholarly literature can be openly accessed and freely downloaded on the Internet varies greatly depending on the discipline. This article assesses the current state of open access in the fields of business and management. Google was used to search for free versions of articles from a sample of articles published in early 2009 in a broad array of business and management journals. Free versions of 36% of the articles included in this study were identified, available from a wide variety of websites, including repositories, author profile pages, open access journals, and more.     

我国机构库发展对策探讨

论述我国发展机构库的现实意义,介绍机构库在我国的发展现状,在分析我国发展机构库的优势和主要障碍的基础上提出发展对策.     

国外实现开放存取可持续发展的举措

经济、法律及技术壁垒制约开放存取的可持续发展。国外机构开放存取可持续发展的一些举措,如在开放存取经营上努力实现收入大于支出、争取各相关机构的资助、对获得资助的开放存取项目必须对外义务开放等值得我国借鉴。     

开放获取仓储分布研究

对开放获取仓储目录(DOAR)中收录的1798个开放获取仓储的地域、语言、类型、内容、运行状况等分布规律进行详细分析,以揭示开放获取仓储的发展和运行状况。指出与国外发达国家或地区相比,我国大陆地区开放获取仓储发展十分缓慢。     

基于机构仓储的自存储政策述评

针对研究者自存储到机构仓储意愿低的问题,介绍研究者所属机构、研究出资方和出版商制定的自存储政策,分析政策三方尊重、协商与合作的关系。总结自存储政策制定应该注意的问题,包括：自存储政策的强与弱问题;存储位置唯一问题;存储与出版的关系问题;版权问题;存储与开放的时间问题等。     

日本机构知识库存缴后印本论文的著作权策略研究

介绍日本的开放获取策略数据库SCPJ和科学技术振兴机构（JST）为支持各个学会制定的开放获取策略,从中分析日本机构知识库对后印本论文的著作权和开放获取策略,并阐释其对我国机构知识库实行开放获取的启示。     

国内外机构知识库研究比较分析

通过检索国内外数据库中有关机构知识库的文献,从研究时间、研究机构和研究者、研究内容、研究方法、研究成果形式等方面对国内外机构知识库的研究特点进行分析,探讨其不同之处,以期找出未来机构知识库研究的方向。     

科研人员对OA知识库的认知程度和使用现状分析

通过在线问卷和数据分析,发现中国科研人员对开放存取概念和OA知识库的认知程度有所提高,但利用OA知识库存储学术论文还是一件尚未成熟的行为,并未成为多数中国科研人员的习惯。通过独立T检验和单因素方差分析,进一步发现目前中国科研人员对OA知识库的认知程度和实际使用情况在某种程度上受到诸如性别、年龄、身份/职称和学科等控制变量的影响。     

国内外机构库评价研究现状述评

基于文献调研,从机构库系统软件评价、数字资源管理评价、机构成员态度评价、综合评价以及实践建设宏观评价5个方面对国内外机构库评价研究进行述评。指出机构库系统软件评价研究已取得一定的成绩,而数字资源管理评价、综合评价以及实践建设宏观评价还需要更为深入的研究。     

资助机构开放获取知识库研究与构建-以国家自然科学基金基础研究知识库为例

[目的/意义] 以国家自然科学基金基础知识库建设为例,为国内资助与研究机构建设开放获取知识库提供参考经验。[方法/过程] 全面调研国内外开放获取知识库平台技术、功能、服务与发展,详细介绍项目建设平台选型、架构设计、关键技术实现、界面设计、元数据标准、数据清洗、运行情况等研究成果与实践经验。[结果/结论] 总结项目建设经验,为资助与研究机构建设开放获取知识库提供有价值的研究与建设参考经验,推动公共资助机构投资所产生的知识普惠社会,促进社会创新发展。     

Policies,Open Access and Cooperation as Factors Influencing Geospatial Collections in Libraries and Institutional Repositories

The aim of this paper is to explore whether in today's changing landscape libraries institutional repositories are used, in order to develop collections of locally produced geospatial data. Furthermore, this study will explore the use of policies in developing geospatial collections in order to reveal whether this tool is necessary for librarians who deal with geospatial collections. Finally, it will also detect the role of cooperation in respect to the development of geospatial collections.This research is addressed to librarians working on geospatial collections so as to ascertain their perceptions since they are considered to be the professionals leading changes. The results demonstrate that Map/GIS libraries, along with analog geospatial collections, tend to develop collections from the data their academic community produces. Librarians seem to be convinced that the formulation of policies, the open access to the data, and the establishment of cooperation among stakeholders will be the critical points to accomplish this goal.     

Trends in Use of Institutional Repositories for Faculty Scholarship in ABA-approved Law Schools

Abstract

Using a population of ABA-approved law schools, this study attempts to quantify their institutional repositories and the types of items collected. I conducted a content analysis of repositories containing faculty scholarship, journal archives, and other collections. I located these collections through searching the Web, checking commercial directories and an AALL directory, and directly searching law school Web sites. Approximately 66% of law schools maintain institutional repositories containing faculty scholarship, journal archives, and/or other documents. This article includes recent research about other academic repositories, reviewing their success factors and general difficulties in implementing institutional repositories.     

Representing Serials Metadata in Institutional Repositories

This study focused on how serials information for journal articles is presented based on a sampling of institutional repository platforms at a variety of institutions. Since metadata on journal articles in institutional repositories can often be incomplete and haphazard, not only due to the difficulty of entering the metadata in the first place, but due to the difficulty of adapting existing metadata schemes to represent a journal article accurately, how can libraries increase the discoverability of these individual articles from a wide variety of journals? By examining existing metadata schemes and how they are used to represent articles currently in institutional repositories, libraries can look for a way forward to better represent articles though adapting schemas, exploring possibilities for standardization of metadata for articles, and promoting good practices.     

Institutional Repositories: An Analysis of Trends and a Proposed Collaborative Future

This study seeks to give libraries a plan for interinstitutional cooperation for institutional repositories that will benefit all involved: researchers, institutions, and, ultimately, global scholarship. This research uses repository studies, interviews with existing repository managers, and the input of libraries considering a repository to inform the exploration of the opportunities for collaboration in IR development and maintenance. This article proposes opportunities for collaboration between institutions in order to convince libraries that it is possible and effective to work together toward a common goal: highlighting existing working groups or alliances, sharing technology and hardware, building separate interinstitutional bodies to house repositories, and sharing the work of specialists.     

机构知识库发展的动力机制与动力模型研究

在分析不同学者对机构知识库内涵界定的基础上,提出机构知识库是对机构内成员智力产品进行收集、存储、管理并提供开放利用的知识传播与知识服务系统,探讨了机构知识库发展的六大动力因素,即长期保管与存取数字资产的需求、开放获取运动、科学信息与知识的共享及创新、数字化信息技术与标准、机构主体以及理论与实践进展,并分析了机构知识库发展动力因素互动机理,构建了机构知识库发展动力模型。     

IRUS-UK: Improving Understanding of the Value and Impact of Institutional Repositories

Institutional repositories (IRs) are important research management tools that can give increased visibility to the institution’s scholarly outputs. Although statistics were previously available through the various repository interfaces, without an agreed standard it was not possible to measure usage across a range of IRs accurately. IRUS-UK is a national aggregation service, containing details of all content downloaded from participating IRs in the United Kingdom. Through collecting raw usage data and processing them into item-level usage statistics IRUS-UK provides comparable and authoritative standards-based data and also acts as an intermediary between UK repositories and other agencies.     

Undercounting File Downloads from Institutional Repositories

ABSTRACT

A primary impact metric for institutional repositories (IR) is the number of file downloads, which are commonly measured through third-party Web analytics software. Google Analytics, a free service used by most academic libraries, relies on HTML page tagging to log visitor activity on Google's servers. However, Web aggregators such as Google Scholar link directly to high value content (usually PDF files), bypassing the HTML page and failing to register these direct access events. This article presents evidence of a study of four institutions demonstrating that the majority of IR activity is not counted by page tagging Web analytics software, and proposes a practical solution for significantly improving the reporting relevancy and accuracy of IR performance metrics using Google Analytics.     

英美机构知识库的比较

文章针对OpenDOAR网站所登记注册的英美机构知识库进行调查,分析英美机构知识库发展概况,并主 要从机构知识库的主要类型及创建主体、创建软件应用情况、知识库容量大小、资源收录类型、学科分布、语种、开 放存取情况等方面进行比较,总结两国的主要相同点和差异,为中国机构知识库建设提供相应的启示。