Emerald Insight | Library Management | ETD: total cost of ownership - collecting, archiving and providing access

abernard102@gmail.com 2014-05-27

Summary:

"Purpose - The paper aims to provide a case study of total cost of ownership for Electronic Theses and Dissertations(TOC). Only few articles have been published to discuss the costs associated with repository and/or theses and dissertations. Design/methodology/approach - The paper first provides literature reviews in costs associated with repository and theses and dissertations. By using the DCC life cycle model, the author presents costs for each actionable category: create or receive, appraise & select, ingest, preservation action, store, access, use & reuse, and transform. The paper presents four TOCs to illustrate the changes of TOCs from 2005 to current time. Findings - The paper gives one case study of the TOCs for ETD over the years, and illustrates how the University lowered the TOCs. The current ETD’s TOC is on a par with these costs of two other studies published related to repository titles. The TOC has been decreased from the traditional paper-based theses and dissertations of $75 per title to ETD of $69 in 2005. By removing the ProQuest processing fee of $55, the TOC decreased to $14.37 in 2010. The TOC is currently $6.33 per title after the ETD collection was migrated to the University of Arizona repository. Research limitations/implications - Readers shall be aware that there are no "transform" and little "preservation action" tasks performed. The current cost of "transform" is $0 due to the nature of ETD of its rigid format requirements, Originality/value - The paper fulfills the need to study costs associated with repository titles, especially ETD titles. It also provide a way to estimate costs for institutions planning to start ETD collections."

Link:

http://www.emeraldinsight.com/journals.htm?WT.mc_id=journaltocalerts&articleid=17111328

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Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » abernard102@gmail.com

Tags:

oa.new oa.emerald oa.lis oa.libraries oa.librarians oa.ir oa.green oa.etds oa.costs oa.paywalled oa.repositories

Date tagged:

05/27/2014, 18:10

Date published:

05/27/2014, 14:10