Experimental DML over digital repositories in Japan

In this paper the authors show an overview of Virtual Digital Mathematics Library in Japan (DML-JP), contents of which consist of metadata harvested from institutional repositories in Japan and digital repositories in the world. DML-JP is, in a sense, a subject specific repository which collaborate with various digital repositories. Beyond portal website, DML-JP provides subject-specific metadata through OAI-ORE. By the schema it is enabled that digital repositories can load the rich metadata which were added by mathematicians

Repositories, research and reporting: the conflict between institutional and disciplinary needs

In Australia, research reporting is considered a way to increase awareness of and support for opening up accessibility to research outputs. This paper explores the fundamental differences between disciplines, which extend beyond publishing outputs. Most crucially, the information-seeking behaviour of a disciplinary cohort will determine the likelihood of individuals voluntarily embracing repositories. There is an inherent conflict between the needs of the institution and those of academics’ ‘invisible colleges’, as institutional repositories exist to serve the institution and funding bodies, rather than the individual

Libraries Can Help: Institutional Repositories

Law libraries can assist law journals beyond citation help, Westlaw and Lexis training, and gathering resources; law libraries can help with resource discovery and publication-process analysis. Specifically, libraries can guide law journals in implementing, maintaining, and expanding publication technologies through institutional repositories to stay current in this digital age

Open access in Africa – green and gold, the impact factor, ‘mainstream' and ‘local' research

I have been following the debate raging in the UK and beyond about whether the Finch Commission and the Research Councils UK - and then the EC with a slightly different emphasis – were right in opting for support for the ‘gold route' of open access publishing rather than prioritizing only the ‘green route' of open access repositories. There seems to have been a general consensus in the commentaries that I have read that this will disadvantage the developing world, which will be faced with the barrier of high article processing fees and become increasingly excluded. The green route, through continuing creation of institutional repositories, would be better for us, we are told

Point and Counterpoint: The Purpose of Institutional Repositories: Green OA or Beyond?

In this "debate-style" article, Rebecca Kennison and Sarah Shreeves argue in their piece, "Institutional Repositories -— So Much More than Green OA," that a repository collection development strategy open to research output of all kinds then positions the IR to be able to fulfill whatever mandates for deposit may occur. Stevan Harnad responds, in "Ordering Institutional Repository Priorities vs. Breaking Through Open Doors," that the priority of any IR manager should be pushing for the adoption of immediate-deposit mandates and then ensuring compliance to those mandates

The IR has Two Faces: Positioning Institutional Repositories for Success

This article will describe ongoing efforts at University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) Libraries to evolve the role of the institutional repository (IR) and to effectively position it within the context of the Libraries’ collections, research support, and scholarly communication services. A major component of this process is re-examining the fundamental aims of the IR and aligning it to the Libraries and the campus strategic goals. The authors situate UNLV Libraries’ experience within the context of the current literature to provide background and reasoning for our decision to pursue two, at times conflicting, aims for the IR: one for scholarly communication and another for research administration

Beyond Open Access mandates: institutional repositories as building blocks in open scholarly communication

Aim: The presentation traces the emerging roles of institutional repositories in Serbia, beyond the main task required by the national Open Science (OS) policy (adopted in 2018): to serve as Green Open Access (OA) venues. Background: At the time when the national OS policy was adopted (2018), Serbia had already had a developed network of Diamond OA journals and a national repository of PhD theses, but there were only a few fully functional institutional repositories. To comply with the policy, which mandates Open Access to publications, research organizations have undertaken to establish institutional repositories, without dedicated financial support from public funders. Almost three years later, there are around 40 repositories and their content goes beyond the policy requirements. Methods: The presence of content types not covered by the OA mandate (posters, images, research data, etc.) and the coverage of content from the period preceding the adoption of the OA mandate are taken as the quantitative indicators of the emerging roles for institutional repositories in Serbia. We analyze content types in around 40 institutional repositories based on data provided by repositories and aggregators. A qualitative analysis based on a survey conducted among repository managers is also presented. Finally, as the authors are also members of a repository development team, a brief overview of measures taken towards supporting the emerging roles of institutional repositories is given. Results and discussion: The results show that although most institutional repositories in Serbia were established with the aim of ensuring compliance with the OA mandate, research organizations have assigned them other roles, namely: to serve as comprehensive digital libraries of the institution’s research outputs as, far back in history as possible, no matter whether the content is OA or not; to serve as a source of information in various reporting procedures (annual reports, promotion procedures, etc.); to showcase the institution’s publishing activity; to make print-only publications, especially monographs, available in a digital environment; to showcase various non-publication outputs (technical reports, posters, promotional materials, students’ works, etc.); to serve as research data repositories. One of the most important incentives for this is the high visibility of local repositories and their content in international aggregators, discovery platforms (OpenAIRE, BASE, CORE), and search engines (Google Scholar). There is an apparent tendency to make content open whenever possible. Interestingly, institutional repositories in Serbia are still not used for sharing Open Education Resources and training materials. The initiative to increase content diversity in an institutional repository usually comes either from institutional decision-makers or from librarians. Whether an innovative idea in this direction will be realized or not largely depends on the readiness of repository development teams and librarians to support it. Conclusion: In most cases, once an institution decides to invest in a repository, it wants to make the best use of it, especially if its functionalities can make up for some missing links in the local infrastructure for scholarly communication (e.g. book publishing platforms or CRIS). Our analysis shows that institutional repositories can successfully meet various innovative needs and serve as crucial building blocks of open scholarly communication if appropriate support from repository developers and librarians is provided. Furthermore, training related to repositories and researchers’ involvement with this type of infrastructure contribute to the development of skills relevant for Open Science and scholarly communication. The fact that innovative initiatives come from within institutions, without any pressure from research funders, indicates that there is an intrinsic interest in open scholarly communication. On the other hand, the lack of incentives from the responsible ministry may be discouraging in the long term

Institutional Repositories in India: A Case Study of National Aerospace Laboratories

This paper traces the history and developments in Open Archives Initiatives including open access journals, e-print archives and Institutional repositories. The setting up of NAL’s Institutional Repository using OSS GNU Eprints, document types with statistical analysis, country wise statistics of full text download, levels of accessibility and technologies used in building the Institutional Repository have been discussed at lengt