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
8 - Situation Per EU Country
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 8 summary
Situation per EU country
What is the situation per country in the European Union with regard to digital repositories with research output? Based on this study it is estimated that there are approximately 230 institutes with a digital repository for research output in the countries of the European Union.
The situation per country differs greatly. In seven EU countries there appear to be no research institutions with a digital repository for research output. Five EU countries seem to be in a starting phase, where a few institutions have set up such a repository. In 15 EU countries a sizeable proportion of the research universities have implemented a digital repository for research output: in seven of these countries it is estimated that more than half of the research universities have done so.
Conclusion
Although the categories are arbitrary and the categorisation of each country is arbitrary as well and often based on limited data, it seems safe to conclude that in a majority of the EU countries (15 of the 25) a sizeable part of the research-oriented universities have implemented a digital repository for their research output. These countries include the larger EU countries with the largest research efforts.
What is the situation per country in the European Union with regard to digital repositories with research output?
There are approximately 230 institutes with a digital repository for research output in the countries of the European Union. This estimate is based on the number of addresses of digital repositories collected for this study and the response to the questionnaire.
To put this number of institutes with a digital repository in context, two sources (Braintrack and the European University Association) have been used to assess the number of universities in the European Union countries (assuming that most digital repositories for research output will be linked to a university). From these figures it can be (very roughly) estimated that between 34% and 45% of the EU universities have a digital repository for research output. These figures leads to a rough estimate that about 40% of the EU universities have a digital repository for research output.
In addition, the available data per country were also put into context.
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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. 71 - 74Publisher: Amsterdam University PressPrint publication year: 2008