The Survey of Institutional Digital Repositories, 2011 Edition
Primary Research Group, February 2011, Pages: 225
The 225-page report looks closely at how 60+ academic and special libraries and other select institutions in the United States, the UK, continental Europe, Canada, China, India, Australia and other countries or regions are funding, managing, cataloging, marketing and developing their institutional digital repositories.
The report provides detailed data on budget and spending, sources of revenue and support, man hours deployed, range of materials maintained, number and source of visitors and downloads, and other key facts about institutional digital repositories. The report also looks closely at the degree of faculty cooperation, methods of procuring and measuring this cooperation, plans to develop repositories as publishers in their own right, impact on the online presence of the college and on citation rates in journals, among other factors. Data is broken out by size, geographic region, Carnegie class, years in operation and type of library or other institution (such as scientific institutes).
The report also looks closely at the degree of faculty cooperation, methods of procuring and measuring this cooperation, plans to develop repositories as publishers in their own right, impact on the online presence of the college and on citation rates in journals, among other issues. Data is broken out by size, geographic region, Carnegie class, years in operation and type of library or other institution (such as scientific institutes).
Just a few of the study's many findings are that:
- The repositories in the sample received a mean number of 375,919 unique visitors in the past year with a median of 33,210.
52.4% of the survey participants housed books written by faculty or staff in their digital repositories. This was most common in Europe (nearly 77%) and least common in the developing world (12.5%).
- Nearly 58% archived digital images, a practice most common in the USA, especially among research universities.
- For the sample as a whole, 4.45% of repository downloads come from Canada.
- Close to 33% of the survey takers have an interface that allows authors and other some other contributors to track their downloads.
- A mean of 32.3% of visitors to the repositories are from the repository's own institution; the median figure was 12.75%.
- 39% of survey participants had a brochure for their digital repository; half of all European repositories had a brochure.
- 15.79% of repositories have an E-publishing program through which they publish monographs or books in either a print or digital format that might not have been initially published elsewhere
- The questionnaire
- Participants
- Summary of main findings
Chapter One: Developing the Digital Repository
- Question one: if your institution is a college what is its total full time equivalent enrollment for all programs?
- Question two: does your digital repository contain books written by faculty?
- Question three: does your digital repository contain journal articles written by faculty?
- Question four: does your digital repository contain presentations made by faculty?
- Question five: does your digital repository contain magazine or newspaper articles written by faculty?
- Question six: does your digital repository contain digital images?
- Question seven: does your digital repository contain dissertations and/or theses?
- Question eight: does your digital repository contain lectures, courses and coursework?
- Question nine: does your digital repository contain textbooks written by faculty?
- Question ten: does your digital repository contain university records?
- Question eleven: does your digital repository contain images of rare books or historical documents?
- Question twelve: does your digital repository contain college publications such as the alumni magazine?
- Question thirteen: does your digital repository contain patents issued to faculty or the university?
- Question fourteen: does your digital repository contain notebooks, scholarly papers of noted college scholars?
- Question fifteen: does your digital repository contain audio files?
- Question sixteen: does your digital repository contain video files?
- Question seventeen: marketing the digital repository
- Question eighteen: does your institutional repository have a link to the college library website?
- Question nineteen: does your institutional repository have a link to the college website apart from any link to the library?question twenty: does your institutional repository have any links to a university itunes site?
- Question twenty-one: does your institutional repository have any links to a university youtube channel?
- Question twenty-two: does your institutional repository have its own blog?
- Question twenty-three: does your institutional repository have a brochure?
- Question twenty-four: does your institutional repository have a regular webcast or podcast?
- Question twenty-five: does your institutional repository have a published annual report?
- Question twenty-six: how many press releases about or from the repository did the library send out in the past year?
- Question twenty-seven: describe how you market the repository both to internal and external users. Have you used search engine optimization techniques? What about your site linking strategy. Your press release efforts? Outreach at conferences, etc.
Chapter Two: Access Data for the Digital Repository
- Question twenty-eight: approximately how many unique visitors has the repository website or web page received in the past year?
- Question twenty-nine: what percentage of visitors to the repository website are connected to the repository's own college or institution?
- Question thirty: if the repository allows direct downloads approximately how many downloads of articles or other materials occurred within the past year?
- Question thirty-one: what percentage of downloads from the repository come from within the united states?
- Question thirty-two: what percentage of downloads from the repository come from canada?
- Question thirty-three: what percentage of downloads from the repository come from other foreign countries?
- Question thirty-four: what percentage of downloads from the repository come from within your institution?
- Question thirty-five: what percentage of downloads from the repository come from outside your institution?
- Question thirty-six: comment on trends in the downloading of materials from your repository. Are downloads increasing in a particular subject area? For a particular part of the world or from certain types of institutions? We are particularly interested in the trend in downloads from scholars and educators in developing countries.
- Question thirty-seven: do authors have a user interface to track downloads?
- Question thirty-eight: do authors get an email or can they download or retrieve a record periodically summarizing the downloads of their materials?
- Question thirty-nine: is there a system for authors to communicate with those who have downloaded their articles through instant messaging, bulletin boards or other means?
- Question forty: in the past year what has been the growth rate in the overall use of the digital repository measured by the indicator most useful to you in your personal planning? (i.e., downloads, pages viewed, site visits, etc.)
- Question forty-one: question forty-one: comment on trends in the downloading of materials from your repository. Are downloads increasing in a particular subject area? For a particular part of the world or from certain types of institutions? We are particularly interested in the trend in downloads from scholars and educators in developing countries.
Chapter Three: Digital Repository as Publisher
- Question forty-two: has your digital repository taken measures to become a publisher in its own right, developing branded information collections of scholarly materials to market to the outside world or for internal use?
- Question forty-three: does the repository have an e-publishing program through which it publishes monographs or books in either a print or digital format (or both) that might not have been initially published elsewhere?
Question forty-four: does the repository publish any open access journals?
- Question forty-five: describe the repository's attitude towards becoming an actual publisher. Does it plan to publish its own open access journals? Has it taken measures to organize peer review councils or editorial staff or other measures associated with academic publishing?
Chapter Four: The Digital Repository Budget
- Question forty-six: how much has the college or library allocated for the annual budget of the digital repository, its operation and marketing?
- Question forty-seven: what was the rate of change in spending on the digital repository in 2010-11?
- Question forty-eight: what was the rate of change in spending on the digital repository in 2011-12 (anticipated)?
- Question forty-nine: approximately how many man hours per year of librarian and librarian technician labor is required to operate and market the digital repository?
- Question fifty: what percentage of the overall skilled labor needed to operate the depository come from the library?
- Question fifty-one: what percentage of the overall skilled labor needed to operate the depository come from the academic departments?
- Question fifty-two: what percentage of the overall skilled labor needed to operate the depository come from the information technology oriented administrative departments?
- Question fifty-three: what percentage of the overall skilled labor needed to operate the depository come from other departments or entities?
- Question fifty-four: briefly comment on your plans for staffing the repository. Will you increase staff? Hold it constant? Can you get more productivity by bringing in experts from other departments to pay specific roles? Use outside consultants? Or better software to other tools to make it easier for faculty and staff to use the repository without staff assistance?
Chapter Five: Faculty Cooperation with the Digital Depository
- Question fifty-five: approximately what percentage of the books published by your institution's faculty in the past two years are archived in any form in the institution's digital repository?
- Question fifty-six: approximately what percentage of the journal articles published by your faculty are archived in any form in the institutional repository?
- Question fifty-seven: approximately what percentage of the journal articles published by your faculty are archived in any form in the institutional repository?
- Question fifty-eight: describe how you have gone about trying to assure faculty participation in the digital repository program. What methods have you used? Can you advise your peers on best practices in gaining faculty awareness and acceptance?
- Question fifty-nine: please rank the medical and biological sciences department as a contributor to the digital repository.
- Question sixty: please rank the chemistry department as a contributor to the digital repository.
- Question sixty-one: please rank the physics department as a contributor to the digital repository.
- Question sixty-two: please rank the literature department as a contributor to the digital repository.
- Question sixty-three: please rank the art, architecture & music department as a contributor to the digital repository.
- Question sixty-four: please rank the economics & business department as a contributor to the digital repository.
- Question sixty-five: please rank the psychology, sociology, political science department as a contributor to the digital repository.
- Question sixty-six: please rank the anthropology, archeology department as a contributor to the digital repository.
- Question sixty-seven: please rank the law department as a contributor to the digital repository.
Chapter Six: Impact on the College Online & Scholarly Presence
- Question sixty-eight: has the library done any research on the impact of the digital repository on the citation rate of journal articles in the repository? If so what has it discovered?
- Question sixty-nine: in general what has been the impact of the digital repository on your institution's overall online presence?
Chapter Seven: Rights Management, Copyright and the Digital Repository
- Question seventy: how many books does the library have in its digital repository?
- Question seventy-one: how many journal articles does the library have in its digital repository?
- Question seventy-two: how many articles from non-refereed sources such as magazines, newspapers, etc., does the library have in its digital repository?
- Question seventy-three: how many digital images of works of art does the library have in its digital repository?
- Question seventy-four: what percentage of the books in the institution's digital depository can be described as full open access prior to or upon publication?
- Question seventy-five: what percentage of the books in the institution's digital depository can be described as full open access after a waiting period of less than one year?
- Question seventy-six: what percentage of the books in the institution's digital depository can be described as full open access after a waiting period of more than one year?
- Question seventy-seven: what percentage of the journal articles in the digital depository can be described as full open access?
- Question seventy-eight: what percentage of the journal articles in the digital depository can be described as access restricted to a page view limit?
- Question seventy-nine: what percentage of the journal articles in the digital depository can be described as access restricted to an institution or limited group of institutions?
Chapter Eight: Paying for the Digital Repository
- Question eighty: which choice best describes your institutional experience with your institutional repository?
- Question eighty-one: what best describes how your digital depository is funded?
- Question eighty-two: if the repository receives grant support, how much did it spend in grant money in the past year?
- Question eighty-three: which of the following support the digital repository with operational funds or significant donated man hours of work?
Chapter Nine: Cataloging the Digital Depository
- Question eighty-four: choose the phrase which best describes how your organization's digital repository is cataloged by your institution's library.
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