Institutional Repositories - Dream and Reality

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https://doi.org/10.31263/voebm.v71i1.2002

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institutional repository, subject repository, scholarly communication, academic social networks, mandate

Abstract

Institutional Repositories (IRs) have been developed primarily to present the visibility of the research output of an institution. However, results of empirical work on the acceptance and use of institutional repositories in recent years paint a rather critical picture of this apparent model of success. Even though university libraries and research institutes invested money and personnel in their construction and operation, institutional repositories were not always able to meet their expectations. Did the proponents make use of the objectives of unsuitable strategies, have there been technological changes, and have IR been silently replaced by other forms and techniques of science communication?

In an attempt to answer these and similar questions in a critical way, factors that have influenced the current status quo of IR should be examined. Using examples from the market for science communication on the one hand and various characteristics of the research process on the other hand, an attempt is made to outline developments and to deduce interdependencies that have influenced the model of IR.

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2018-07-19

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Novotny, G. and Seyffertitz, T. (2018) “Institutional Repositories - Dream and Reality”, Communications of the Association of Austrian Librarians, 71(1), pp. 87–106. doi: 10.31263/voebm.v71i1.2002.