Institutional digital repository benchmarks, 2014 edition
Edition: 2014 ed.
Publisher: Primary Research Group, Inc.
Published: 2014
Place of publication: [New York, New York]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 134
ISBN-13: 9781574402735
Subjects: Institutional repositories; Statistics; Digitization; Digital libraries; Library materials; Electronic information resources
Description: This 135-page international study of the digital repositories of universities and other research oriented organizations presents data from 35 digital repositories from the USA, Canada, Europe and Latin America. The report presents detailed information on downloads, source of downloads, repository website activity, publishing activities, repository marketing, budgets and funding, staffing, fees and revenues, outreach to faculty, content holdings, and many other facets of institutional digital repository management and development. The report provides trend data on the inclusion of various types of intellectual property including journal articles, books, classroom video and lectures and other materials. The study pinpoints how repositories are being used and by whom, defining for repository policy planners growth areas in the type of intellectual property being downloaded by repository end users. Data is broken out for US and non-US institutions, by public or private status of the institution, and by Carnegie class, Full time enrollment, and years in operation for the digital repository.
Table of contents: title: List of tables; title: The questionnaire; title: Survey participants; title: Characteristics of the sample; title: Summary of main findings; title: 1: Marketing the digital repository; title: 2: Revenue from the digital repository; title: 3: Access data; title: 4: The digital repository as publisher; title: 5: Budget and and grants/fundraising; title: 6: Faculty cooperation; title: 7: Impact on the college online and scholarly presence; title: 8: Rights management and copyright; title: 9: MOOCs.