Updated 21 March 2013
General
- Number of responses total: 94
- What software do you use (Please tick all that you use)?
- Software Used: (2 institutions used 2 different types)
| DSpace | 25 | 24.75% |
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| EPrints | 54 | 53.46% |
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| Fedora | 4 | 3.96% |
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| Open Repository | 6 | 5.94% |
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| Equella | 2 | 1.98% |
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| Digital Commons | 1 | 0.99% |
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| Other | 9 | 8.91% |
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| TOTAL responses | 101 | 99.99% |
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Staffing
- Please indicate the WTE (Whole time equivalent) dedicated to the three listed aspects of repository work. So for example if you have half a day a week of a technical officer that would be 0.1. (These staff do not necessarily have to be members of the core repository team).
- WTE:
| Managerial WTE | Average: 0.94 WTE |
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| Administrative WTE | Average: 1.29 WTE |
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| Technical WTE | Average: 0.29 WTE |
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| TOTAL WTE | Average: 2.52 WTE |
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| TOTAL responses | 86 |
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- Please indicate the total number of individual staff who work on the repository either part or whole time.(These staff do not necessarily have to be members of the core repository team).
| Total # of individuals working on repository | Average: 5.11 | Mode: 2 |
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| TOTAL responses | 89 | |
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- Are all the staff working on the repository part of the core repository team or are some located in other departments?
| All are part of core respository team | 30 | 34.1% |
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| Some are located in other departments | 58 | 65.9% |
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| TOTAL responses | 88 |
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- Is anyone in the team a member of the United Kingdom Council of Research Repositories? UKCoRR is the professional organisation for UK repository staff and further information can be found at http://www.ukcorr.org.
| All staff are members | 14 | 15.7% |
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| Some staff are members | 64 | 71.9% |
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| No staff are members | 5 | 5.6% |
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| Don't know | 6 | 6.7% |
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| TOTAL responses | 89 |
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Policies
- What level of mediated deposit do you provide? This question relates to the amount of help or mediation provided and is defined as below. Please choose the predominant practice at your institution. If there is no predominant practice, please choose the last option.
- Fully - repository staff create records, add all the metadata, check copyright and upload full text where appropriate
- Partially - people other than repository staff (e.g departmental administrators, researchers) create records and then these are checked by repository staff (e.g. checking copyright)
- None - people other than repository staff create records and make them live
| Fully | 17 | 19.1% |
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| Partially | 47 | 52.8% |
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| None | 5 | 5.6% |
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| Level of mediation varies according to department | 20 | 22.5% |
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| TOTAL responses | 89 |
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- Is your repository full-text only or do you also accept metadata only records?
| Full-text only | 21 | 23.9% |
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| Metadata only and full-text | 67 | 76.1% |
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| TOTAL responses | 88 |
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- Percentage full-text in all repositories:
NOTE: Keep in mind this is the percentage of full-text items as a proportion of the total records in the repository and not the percentage of full text as a proportion of all research output produced by the institution. So, for example, if the repository only accepts full text items, that would be 100%.
| Average across all institutions | 50.8% | (88 responses) |
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- Percentage full-text in repositories restricted to those that accept metadata only items:
| Average across these institutions | 26.47% | (61 responses) |
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- Does your institution have a policy or mandate which requires researchers to add their publications to the repository?
| Yes | 39 | 43.8% |
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| No | 50 | 56.2% |
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| TOTAL responses | 89 |
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- Do you have a Preservation Policy for your repository?:
| Yes | 46 | 54.8% |
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| No | 38 | 45.2% |
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| TOTAL responses | 84 |
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- What types of content do you include in your repository?
| Research articles | 89 | 100% |
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| Learning resources | 16 | 18% |
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| Datasets | 33 | 37.1% |
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| Conference papers | 87 | 97.8% |
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| Books | 80 | 89.9% |
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| Multimedia (images, video, sound) | 66 | 74.2% |
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| Software | 27 | 30.3% |
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| Theses | 81 | 91% |
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| Unpublished works | 62 | 69.7% |
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| Other | 32 | 35.95% |
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| TOTAL responses | 89 |
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- What is your policy on quality assurance of the research content in your repository?
| We only accept peer reviewed materials | 10 | 11.6% |
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| We accept peer reviewed and non-peer reviewed materials | 76 | 88.4% |
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| TOTAL responses | 86 |
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- Do you have a policy for depositing eTheses?
| Yes | 68 | 76.4% |
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| No | 21 | 23.6% |
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| TOTAL responses | 89 |
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- Is your eTheses policy opt out (i.e. the thesis will be made open access unless the student requests an exception)?
| Yes | 53 | 73.6% |
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| No | 19 | 26.4% |
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| TOTAL responses | 72 |
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| N/A | 22 |
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Institutional context
- Which department has lead responsibility for the repository?
| Library | 77 | 81.91% |
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| Research office | 2 | 2.12% |
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| IT Department | 0 | 0% |
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| Other (includes joint lead, particular school, etc.) | 15 | 15.97% |
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| TOTAL responses | 94 |
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- Is your repository integrated at all with university research management systems?
| Already integrated | 12 | 14.6% |
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| Partially - in the process of implementation | 26 | 31.7% |
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| Planned but not in progress | 24 | 29.3% |
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| No plans at the moment | 20 | 24.4% |
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| TOTAL responses | 82 |
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