[Irtalk] FW: New Publication: Institutional Digital Repository Benchmarks, 2013 Edition, ISBN 978-157440-238-4

[Hettie Groenewald]

Dear colleagues, I did manage to get hold of the book... an e-version,
quite interesting comparisons of surveys conducted... worth to keep as a
reference..
Kind regards
Hettie

 
Hettie Groenewald
Institutional Repository Manager
E-Information Unit
Department of Library Services
University of Pretoria
Tel: +27 12 420 3876
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Dear colleagues

Here is an announcement that was posted on the Archives mailing list of
a new publication that would be useful for most of us.

Best regards

Ansie van der Westhuizen
Non-commercial Digital Developer
IR Content Management: Collection Development
Unisa Library
  +27 12 429 3426
    0865482628

 mailto:vdwesapj at unisa.ac.za 


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Subject: New Publication: Institutional Digital Repository Benchmarks,
2013 Edition, ISBN 978-157440-238-4

Primary Research Group has published Institutional Digital Repository
Benchmarks, 2013 Edition, ISBN 978-157440-238-4.

This 117 page study presents data from 33 institutions, mostly
universities and other colleges, about their institutional digital
repositories.  The report presents hard data on the holdings of the
repositories, and the growth in their stock of journal articles, books,
dissertations, images, video and other forms of intellectual property. 
The study also gives detailed info on budgets and operating costs,
including the cost of professional labor, as well as details on what is
downloaded from the sites and by whom. These details include data on
downloads from within or outside the institution, and by nation of
origin of the downloader, among other variables.  In addition, the study
looks at issues such as marketing the repository, assuring cooperation
from faculty, sources of funding, impact on the parent institution’s
reputation, growth rates of content and downloading, trends in
cataloging and other issues.

Just a few of the report’s many findings were that:

●       54.55% of repositories sampled contain video files.
●       21.1% of the repositories sampled publish an annual report.
●       9.1% of repositories in the sample have their own Facebook
site.
●       36.3% of colleges in the sample with more than 25,000
students have formed reciprocal access, development or marketing
arrangements with other digital repositories.
●       The median number of direct downloads of articles, image
files and other forms of intellectual property from the repositories in
the sample in the past year was 158,332. The maximum was close to
2,900,000.
●       Close to 45% of repository downloads come form scholars and
other users within the institution itself.

For further information view our website at www.PrimaryResearch.com.

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