Open AccessThe current situation of faculty participation in Institutional Repositories—A study of 40 DSpace implementations supporting IRs
Author(s) -
Xu Hong
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
proceedings of the american society for information science and technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1550-8390
pISSN - 0044-7870
DOI - 10.1002/meet.1450440332
Subject(s) - dspace , implementation , computer science , order (exchange) , political science , world wide web , library science , business , software engineering , finance , algorithm
In order to learn the current situation of faculty participation in Institutional Repositories, this paper studied 40 DSpace implementations supporting IRs in America. The study shows the average number of items per archive is about 3222 with the median of 921, and for 38 DSpace cases the average faculty participation rate is about 4.6% per archive with a median of 1.9%.