The European Repository Landscape Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- About the Authors
- About the DRIVER Studies
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Methods
- 3 Contents and Related Issues
- 4 Technical Infrastructure and Technical Issues
- 5 Institutional Policies
- 6 Services Created on Top of the Digital Repositories
- 7 Stimulants and Inhibitors for Maintaining Digital Repositories
- 8 Situation Per EU Country
- 9 Summary, Discussion and Conclusions
- Annex A Country Reports
- Annex B Background Information About the Participating Repositories
- Annex C Quantitative Data of all Participants
- Annex D The Questionnaire
- Notes
- References
- Index
1 - Introduction
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 January 2021
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- About the Authors
- About the DRIVER Studies
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Methods
- 3 Contents and Related Issues
- 4 Technical Infrastructure and Technical Issues
- 5 Institutional Policies
- 6 Services Created on Top of the Digital Repositories
- 7 Stimulants and Inhibitors for Maintaining Digital Repositories
- 8 Situation Per EU Country
- 9 Summary, Discussion and Conclusions
- Annex A Country Reports
- Annex B Background Information About the Participating Repositories
- Annex C Quantitative Data of all Participants
- Annex D The Questionnaire
- Notes
- References
- Index
Summary
Chapter 1 summary
Research questions
What is the current state of digital repositories for research output in the European Union? What should the next steps to stimulate an infrastructure for digital repositories at a European level be? To address these key questions, an inventory study into the digital repositories for research output in the European Union was carried out as part of the EUfinanced DRIVER project.
The DRIVER project aims to create a knowledge base for European research. In order to develop state-of-the-art technology and to harmonise European practices, the DRIVER project first had to investigate the present type and level of European repositories. Therefore an inventory study of the current state of digital repositories in 25 countries of the European Union has been conducted. The research for the study was started in June 2006 and completed in February 2007. The study is a follow up of an earlier SURF study carried out in 2005, which covered 10 European countries. A digital repository is in this study defined as:
1. Containing research results
2. Institutional and/or thematic, and
3. OAI-PMH compliant
This publication contains the final results of the study, which are input to the DRIVER project by indicating the status of most European repositories, and anticipating future trends in the development of European repositories, which will form the basis for future DRIVER services and technologies. What this publication shows is that the European repository landscape is constantly changing. Therefore an update of the inventory study is foreseen for 2008, as part of the DRIVER II project.
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- The European Repository LandscapeInventory Study into the Present type and Level of OAI-compliant Digital Respository Activities in the EU, pp. 13 - 14Publisher: Amsterdam University PressPrint publication year: 2008