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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
7 - Stimulants and Inhibitors for Maintaining Digital Repositories
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 7 summary
Factors influencing repositories
In two questions, the respondents were asked to select the three most important stimulants for the development of their digital repository and the three most important inhibitors out of 14 factors.
More than 25% of the respondents listed as the most important stimulants for the development of digital repositories: (1) the increased visibility for the publications of the academics; (2) a simple and userfriendly depositing process; (3) awareness campaigns for academics; and (4) interest from decision makers in the institute.
More than 25% of the respondents listed as the most important inhibitors for the development of digital repositories: (1) the lack of an institutional policy of mandatory depositing; (2) the situation with regard to copyright of (to be) published materials and the knowledge about this among academics in our institute; and (3) the lack of requirements of research funding organisations about depositing research output in Open Access repositories.
Highest priority issue on European agenda
In an open question the respondents were asked to state which issues should be highest on the priority list for the development of digital repositories in Europe. The need for (specific) services was mentioned most (n=16), followed by issues with regard to copyright (n=11), the need for mandatory policies with regard to depositing (n=10), coordination and harmonisation issues (n=8) and issues of advocacy (n=7).
Stimulants for maintaining digital repositories
A question about the most important stimulants for the development of the digital repository and its contents in the institute of the respondents was answered as follows (see also table 11):
– More than 40% of the respondents indicated that they saw as the most important stimulants:
– a simple and user-friendly depositing process
– increased visibility and citations for academics’ publications
– Between 20% and 30% of the respondents indicated that they saw as the most important stimulants:
– awareness-raising efforts among the academics in the institute
– interest from the decision makers within the institute
– the institutional policy of mandatory depositing
– Between 10% and 20% of the respondents indicated that they saw as the most important stimulants:
– requirements of research funding organisations in their country about depositing research output in Open Access repositories
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- Information
- The European Repository LandscapeInventory Study into the Present type and Level of OAI-compliant Digital Respository Activities in the EU, pp. 63 - 70Publisher: Amsterdam University PressPrint publication year: 2008