What Does Your Repository Do?: Understanding and Calculating Impact

Librarians working in scholarly communications need to understand how to calculate and explain how including work in a repository affects its impact. This presentation describes the current state of research and practice into metrics for repositories including traditional metrics and newer alternative metrics, and some preliminary results of a research study assessing the usage and impact of a Digital Commons repository.
Heller, Margaret, "What Does Your Repository Do?: Understanding and Calculating Impact" (2014). University Libraries: Faculty Publications & Other Works. Paper 28.

University libraries, repositories and Open Access should be seen as crucial tools in improving the impact of academic research

University libraries, repositories and Open Access should be seen as crucial tools in improving the impact of academic research

Supporting Digital Scholarship: Bibliographic Control, Library Cooperatives and Open Access Repositories

Calhoun, Karen (2012) Supporting Digital Scholarship: Bibliographic Control, Library Cooperatives and Open Access Repositories. Research libraries have entered an era of discontinuous change—a time when the cumulated assets of the past do not guarantee future success. Bibliographic control, cooperative cataloguing systems and library catalogues have been key assets in the research library service framework for supporting scholarship. This chapter examines these assets in the context of changing library collections, new metadata sources and methods, open access repositories, digital scholarship and the purposes of research libraries. Advocating a fundamental rethinking of the research library service framework, the chapter concludes with a call for research libraries to collectively consider new approaches that could strengthen their roles as essential contributors to emergent, network-level scholarly research infrastructures.

New Roles, New Responsibilities: Examining Training Needs of Repository Staff

This study reports on a survey of Australasian institutional repository staff to identify skills and knowledge sets.

Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication (LibGuide from Denise Nicholson at Wits)

This LibGuide provides useful information about the Open Access Movement, open access publishing and scholarly communication trends.

Elsevier & IOP Still Fully Green & Angelic: Just Ignore Incoherent Distinctions

From the Open Access guru, Steve Harnad

Subject librarians' perceptions of institutional repositories as an information resource

Article  - While there has been much research in recent years about institutional repositories, the focus has been predominantly on issues related to motivating individuals to input content into them. This research shows that institutional repositories are not yet being perceived or promoted as a valuable information resource by academic subject librarians, who view them as having varying value to their clients

Are You a Press or Are You a Library? An Interview with NYU’s Monica McCormick

This is the first article in a new series, Digital Challenges to Academic Publishing, by guest author Adeline Koh. Each article in this series will feature an interview with an academic publisher, press or journal editor on how their organization is changing in response to the digital world.

At Jeanne's request: Institutional Repositories, Open Access, and Scholarly Communication: A Study of Conflicting Paradigms

Open Access Doubts

Open Access advocates have articulated at least five goals for institutional repositories: (1) release hidden information, (2) rein in journal prices, (3) archive an institution’s scholarly record, (4) enable fast research communication, and (5) provide free access to author-formatted articles - four remaining goals, all related to scholarly journals, are more problematic

SHERPA/RoMEO publishers by country

Useful info about SA publishers policies - relevant in terms of deposition of articles in Institutional Repositories

Publisher copyright policies & self-archiving

SHERPA/RoMEO provides a summary of permissions that are normally given as part of each publisher's copyright transfer agreement.

Open-access repositories

A place for everything?