Below the data collected per country are presented.

• – If more than two participants from a country responded to the survey, the results of a number of key questions in the survey are presented.

• – If more than five participants from one country responded to the survey, answers that are statistically significantly different from the other EU countries are presented as well (chi square test).

• – Many participants commented that as the survey did not cover the institutions in their country completely; these results should be considered with care.

Austria

Institutional policies (significantly differing from the EU average)

No significant differences found.

Services (significantly differing from the EU average)

No significant differences found.

Stimulants/ inhibitors

• – Most important stimulant (all equally important):

• – our simple and user-friendly depositing process

• – our institutional policy of mandatory depositing

• – awareness-raising efforts among the academics in our institute

• – increased visibility and citations for the publications of the academics in our institute.

• – Most important inhibitor (both equally important):

• – lack of an institutional policy of mandatory depositing

• – lack of integration/linking of the digital repository with other systems in our institute.

Perspective from Austria

According to our information. 3 institutes in Austria maintain a digital repository for research output: the University of Vienna. the economic University of Vienna, and the Austrian Academic of Sciences.

Institutional policies (significantly differing from the EU average)

– The digital repository is integrated/linked with other systems in our institute: 100% in Belgium, versus 56% in the rest of Europe.

Services (significantly differing from the EU average)

No significant differences

found.

Stimulants/ inhibitors

• – Most important stimulant:

• – our simple and user-friendly depositing process

• – Most important inhibitor (all equally important) :

• – lack of an institutional policy of mandatory depositing

• – lack of requirements of research funding organisations in our country about depositing research output in Open Access repositories

• – lack of financial support from a national funding programme for the digital repository in our institute, lack of coordination of a national body for digital repositories