Size isn’t everything: sustainable repositories as evidenced by sustainable deposit profiles
Size isn’t everything: sustainable repositories as evidenced by sustainable deposit profiles
The key to a successful repository is sustained deposits, and the key to sustained deposits is community engagement. This paper looks at deposit profiles automatically generated from OAI harvesting information and argues that repositories characterised by occasional large-volume deposits are a sign of a failure to embed in institutional processes. The ideal profile for a successful repository is discussed, and a new service that ranks repositories based on these criteria is implemented.
institutional repositories, evaluation, self-archiving
Carr, Leslie
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Brody, Tim
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July 2007
Carr, Leslie
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Brody, Tim
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Carr, Leslie and Brody, Tim
(2007)
Size isn’t everything: sustainable repositories as evidenced by sustainable deposit profiles.
D-Lib Magazine, 13 (7/8).
(doi:10.1045/july2007-carr).
Abstract
The key to a successful repository is sustained deposits, and the key to sustained deposits is community engagement. This paper looks at deposit profiles automatically generated from OAI harvesting information and argues that repositories characterised by occasional large-volume deposits are a sign of a failure to embed in institutional processes. The ideal profile for a successful repository is discussed, and a new service that ranks repositories based on these criteria is implemented.
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Published date: July 2007
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Keywords:
institutional repositories, evaluation, self-archiving
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Web & Internet Science
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Local EPrints ID: 263872
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/263872
ISSN: 1082-9873
PURE UUID: e0af1786-18f5-4ccd-91ce-a126ea656047
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Date deposited: 16 Apr 2007
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