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The Survey of Institutional Digital Repositories, 2012-13 Edition
Primary Research Group, August 2012, Pages: 227
This 227-page study explores the habits and practices of 38 digital repositories from a collection of universities and non-higher education institutions in the United States, Canada, England, Ireland and Australia, and a host of countries from developed and developing areas alike. With over 400 benchmarking tables, the report cites budgetary and revenue data as well as cataloging and open access statistics, detailing just what items these repositories contain: books, journals, magazines, textbooks, audio and video files, and much more. An emphasis is placed on the repository's marketing efforts, offering insights as to how institutions utilize blogs, press releases, SEO techniques, and other linking strategies to advance the repository's presence. Extensive tracking statistics highlight trends in user downloads and overall visits while also exploring the relationships these repositories maintain with their authors. What strides has the repository taken to establish itself as a publisher in its own right? Which academic departments are most frequently represented in the digital repository? How is the digital repository funded? These questions and more are answered here, with data broken out by public or private status of the college, FTE enrollment, Carnegie class, annual budget, and the number of years the repository has been in operation.
Just a few of the many findings from this report are:
- 84.21 percent of survey participants say their digital repository contains journal articles written by faculty, while just 50 percent say their repositories contain faculty-written books
- Only 5.41 percent of participants say the repository has--either along or in concert with others--established any form of peer review network
- For the repositories in the sample, median spending on marketing the digital repository to users over the past year was $0; the majority of participants (if they had spent anything at all) spent well under $1,000
- For US-based repositories, the mean percentage of downloads originating from US sources is 66.94 percent, while the mean for repositories in all other developed countries is 15.61 percent
- According to our survey, the biggest departmental contributor to the digital repository is the Physics department, as 42 percent of participants consider this department to be either a "significant" or "heavy" contributor
- 43 percent of survey participants say their repository contains no archived photographs or digital images
- 80 percent of the repositories in the sample are funded largely from the main library budget
- The mean number of unique visitors per year to the digital repository's website is 69,350
LIST OF TABLES
THE QUESTIONNAIRE
SURVEY PARTICIPANTS
CHARACTERISTICS OF THE SAMPLE
SUMMARY OF MAIN FINDINGS
1. Developing the Digital Repository
2. Marketing the Digital Repository
3. Current or Potential Revenue
4. Access Data and Statistics
5. The Digital Repository as Publisher
6. The Digital Repository Budget
7. Faculty Cooperation
8. Impact on the College's Online and Scholarly Presence
9. Cataloging, Rights Management, and Copyright
10. Paying for the Digital Repository
- Asheshi University
- Australian National University
- Cleveland State University
- The College at Brockport: State University of New York
- Cornell University
- East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust
- Forschungszentrum Jülich
- Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary
- Griffith University
- Illinois Wesleyan University
- Institute of Development Studies
- Intellectual Property Institute
- James Cook University
- Johns Hopkins University
- Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research
- Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education
- Lebanese American University
- Medical University of South Carolina
- National College of Ireland
- Naval Postgraduate School
- Pakistan Petroleum Limited
- Queen's University
- Rutgers University
- Simmons College
- Sri Sarada College for Women
- University of British Columbia
- University at Buffalo: State University of New York
- University for the Creative Arts
- University of Hawaii
- University of Leon
- University of Minnesota
- University of Nevada, Las Vegas
- University of Southern Queensland
- University of Warwick
- University of the West of England, Bristol
- Valparaiso University
- Wichita State University
- Wilfrid Laurier University
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