[BOAI] Summary report on "Brief Institutional Repository Survey"

[Peter Suber]

[Forwarding from the University of Central Florida.  --Peter Suber.]


 [please excuse cross posting]****

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Colleagues,****

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The UCF Libraries Scholarly Communications Task Force has completed its
 “Brief Institutional Repository Survey” and has posted a  summary report on
Google docs. ****

In brief:****


The UCF Libraries Scholarly Communications Task Force conducted a survey of
existing institutional repositories (IRs) which included questions
concerning their organization, staffing, and funding requirements. The ten
question survey included the name and type of institution, information about
the responder, specifics about the IR including the personnel, job
assignment and department, and its funding. ****


Of the fifty four (54) responses 95.9% were from 4 year/Masters and/or PhD
granting universities with 92.3% of the IRs falling within the institutions’
libraries. The survey revealed that IRs report to a wide variety of units
within the libraries including the library administration, digital services
or technical services. From these results it shows that IRs’ success may be
more a function of the people driving the effort than its setting. From the
question (#6) concerning which positions are involved with IR operations,
the results show that in general there are about 3-4 people working on the
IR. And finally, of the twelve (12) institutions reporting actual funding
levels for their hardware, software and subscriptions, the range was $1000
to $110,000, with an average of $22,746.****

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The complete report can be found at  *http://tinyurl.com/3qeqpn4*****

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Thank you to all who participated, ****

Therese Triumph****

UCF Libraries Scholarly Communications Task Force****

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