Open-access repositories worldwide, 2005–2012: Past growth, current characteristics, and future possibilities - Pinfield - 2014 - Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology - Wiley Online Library

abernard102@gmail.com 2014-04-30

Summary:

Use the link to access pay-per-view options for the article published in The Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology available from Wiley.  The abstract reads as follows: "This paper reviews the worldwide growth of open-access (OA) repositories, 2005 to 2012, using data collected by the OpenDOAR project. Initial repository development was focused on North America, Western Europe, and Australasia, particularly the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, and Australia, followed by Japan. Since 2010, there has been repository growth in East Asia, South America, and Eastern Europe, especially in Taiwan, Brazil, and Poland. During the period, some countries, including France, Italy, and Spain, have maintained steady growth, whereas other countries, notably China and Russia, have experienced limited growth. Globally, repositories are predominantly institutional, multidisciplinary and English-language based. They typically use open-source OAI-compliant software but have immature licensing arrangements. Although the size of repositories is difficult to assess accurately, available data indicate that a small number of large repositories and a large number of small repositories make up the repository landscape. These trends are analyzed using innovation diffusion theory, which is shown to provide a useful explanatory framework for repository adoption at global, national, organizational, and individual levels. Major factors affecting both the initial development of repositories and their take-up include IT infrastructure, cultural factors, policy initiatives, awareness-raising activity, and usage mandates. Mandates are likely to be crucial in determining future repository development ..."

Link:

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asi.23131/abstract

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oa.new oa.studies oa.opendoar oa.mandates oa.green oa.wiley oa.libraries oa.librarians oa.lis oa.ir oa.paywalled oa.repositories oa.policies oa.growth oa.history_of oa.monitoring

Date tagged:

04/30/2014, 09:02

Date published:

04/30/2014, 05:02