Mark Ware, Pathfinder Research on Web-based Repositories: Final Report, Publisher and Library/Learning Solutions, January 2004. A study of 45 institutional repositories (IR's) and several IR-related projects such as DSpace, Eprints, DARE, and SHERPA. The report studies the problems facing IR's, their various uses at different institutions, the benefits for hosting institutions, the costs of creating and maintaining them, institutional policies that would help them succeed, publisher policies toward them, and the quantity and kinds of content they currently contain.
Excerpt: "A short survey of publishers was conducted to take a snapshot of their attitudes towards IRs. Some 45% think that IRs will have a significant impact on scholarly publishing, but almost as many (38%) don't know. Significantly, three-quarters think that the impact will either be neutral or there will be no impact. The stances towards IRs were split between 'wait and see' (38%) and active experimentation (42%). Publishers appeared fairly relaxed about pre-prints but much more concerned about self-archiving of final published papers. Interestingly, while 55% permit authors to self-archive, some 12% said they currently permit but expect to tighten restrictions to exclude IRs. (Page 35)."
Posted by
Peter Suber at 2/23/2004 09:42:00 AM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
