<div class="gmail_quote"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><font>[Forwarding from the Primary Research Group. This report is relevant to OA, but is not itself OA. The print and PDF editions each cost $98 <a href="http://www.primaryresearch.com/view_product.php?report_id=358">http://www.primaryresearch.com/view_product.php?report_id=358</a>. --Peter Suber.]<br>
</font><br></font><div class="gmail_quote"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">Primary Research Group has published The Survey of Institutional Digital Repositories, 2012-13 Edition (ISBN 157440-207-2), which examines trends among the digital repositories of academic and other major research libraries worldwide. The 225+ page study examines costs, policies and future plans of academic and research library digital repositories, with data broken out by size and type of institution, among other variables. Some of the many topics covered include: budgets, marketing, staffing, detailed statistics on access, downloads and faculty cooperation, cataloging, rights management, impact on institutional scholarly reputation, efforts to develop publishing ventures and peer review networks and much more.</font></div>
<div><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><br>Just a few of the report’s many findings are that:<br>
<br></font><div><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">* The mean annual budget of the repositories in the sample is $84,240. </font></div><div><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">* Only 18.42 percent of all repositories surveyed contain lectures (notes or video), courses, or other coursework.</font></div>
<div><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif">* Generally speaking, the larger the institution the more likely its repository will contain audio and video files, with 71.43 percent of those with an enrollment of at least 25,000 having the former and an identical 71.43 percent having the latter.</span></div>
<div><div><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">* A mean of 5.82 percent of all downloads from institutions in the sample come from Canada.</font></div><div><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">* A little less than a quarter of the repositories in the sample publish an annual report.</font></div>
<div><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">* Just 2.63 percent of survey participants say the repository charges any form of fee for any articles or downloads (including charges aimed only at cost recovery).</font></div>
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<font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">* 30.56 percent of the repositories surveyed provide their authors either with an email or with access to some sort of record that periodically summarizes the downloads of their materials. </font></div>
<div><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">* Just 8.11 of participants say there is a system in place for authors to communicate with those who have downloaded their articles, either through instant message, message boards, or some other means. </font></div>
<div><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">* Only 5.41 percent of participants say the repository has—either alone or in concert with others—established any form of peer review network. </font></div><div><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">* The mean number of man-hours of librarian and librarian technician labor required per year to operate and market the digital repository is 3,186.5</font></div>
</div><div><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">Participants include Australian National University, Cornell University, Johns Hopkins University, the National College of Ireland, Rutgers University, the Naval Postgraduate Schools, the University of British Columbia, SUNY Buffalo, the University or Warwick and many others.</font></div>
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