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Abstract | ||
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the breadth of the challenges and issues facing institutional repositories in academic libraries, based on a survey of academic librarians. Particularly, this study covers the challenges and barriers related to data management facing institutional repositories. Design/methodology/approach The study uses a survey method to identify the relative significance of major challenges facing institutional repositories across six dimensions, including: data, metadata, technological requirements, user needs, ethical concerns and administrative challenges. Findings The results of the survey reveal that academic librarians identify limited resources, including insufficient budget and staff, as the major factor preventing the development and/or deployment of services in institutional repositories. The study also highlights crucial challenges in different dimensions of institutional repositories, including the sheer amount of data, institutional support for metadata creation and the sensitivity of data. Originality/value This study is one of a few studies that comprehensively identified the variety of challenges that institutional repositories face in operating academic libraries with a focus on data management in institutional repositories. In this study, 37 types of challenges were identified in six dimensions of institutional repositories. More importantly, the significance of those challenges was assessed from the perspective of academic librarians involved in institutional repository services. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2019 | 10.1108/LHT-12-2017-0266 | LIBRARY HI TECH |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
Academic libraries,Library administration,Data preservation,Metadata,Institutional repositories,Ethical issues | Institutional repository,Metadata,World Wide Web,Data preservation,Software deployment,Ethical issues,Computer science,Knowledge management,Survey methodology,Data management | Journal |
Volume | Issue | ISSN |
37.0 | 3.0 | 0737-8831 |
Citations | PageRank | References |
0 | 0.34 | 9 |
Authors | ||
3 | ||
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
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| Soohyung Joo | 1 | 158 | 16.00 |
| Darra Hofman | 2 | 0 | 1.01 |
| Youngseek Kim | 3 | 33 | 7.99 |