<font size="2"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">[Forwarding from the University of Central Florida. --Peter Suber.]</font><br><br></font><div class="gmail_quote"><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">[please excuse cross posting]<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Colleagues,<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The UCF Libraries Scholarly Communications Task Force has completed its “Brief Institutional Repository Survey” and has posted a summary report on Google docs.
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<p class="MsoNormal">In brief:<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal">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.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal">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.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The complete report can be found at <b><a href="http://tinyurl.com/3qeqpn4" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">http://tinyurl.com/3qeqpn4</span></a></b><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thank you to all who participated, <u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Therese Triumph<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">UCF Libraries Scholarly Communications Task Force<u></u><u></u></p>
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