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Thank you for being willing to participate in the MIRACLE Project. Our project's objectives are to assess planning and implementation of institutional repositories (IRs) in educational institutions in the U.S. and to identify IR practices, policies, and operations. We will publish census results on the web and use them to characterize best practices and successful models of IRs.
Your participation will involve completing a web-administered questionnaire. Completing a questionnaire will take about 12 minutes. If you need to contact colleagues to answer questions, you can sign off, do your research, and sign onto the questionnaire at a later time.
At the conclusion of the questionnaire, we will ask you to volunteer your institution's name so that we can make sure that we receive completed questionnaires from all U.S. educational institutions. We will also ask you to volunteer your name in case we need clarification or you want to participate in follow-up telephone interviews and/or case studies. We will keep identifying information separate from your responses.
Later this year, results of the census will be published at the MIRACLE Project website: http://miracle. si.umich.edu.
Participation in the census is voluntary. You may choose not to answer some questions and you may decide to withdraw from the study at any time. There is no known risk or discomfort you will have from your participation and there is no direct benefit.
Should you have questions concerning your rights as a research participant, you should contact the Institutional Review Board, James Sayer, 540 East Liberty Street, Suite 202, Ann Arbor, MI 48104- 2210, (734) 936-0933, irbhsbs@umich.edu
For all other questions about this study please contact MIRACLE
Project investigators:
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Soo Young Rieh |
Karen Markey |
Elizabeth Yakel |
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Assistant Professor |
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School of Information |
School of Information |
School of Information |
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University of Michigan |
University of Michigan |
University of Michigan |
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304 West Hall |
304 West Hall |
304 West Hall |
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1085 So. University Ave. |
1085 So. University Ave. |
1085 So. University Ave. |
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Ann Arbor, MI 48109 |
Ann Arbor, MI 48109 |
Ann Arbor, MI 48109 |
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(734) 647-8040 |
(734) 763-3581 |
(734) 763-3569 |
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rieh@umich.edu |
ylime@umich.edu |
yakel@umich.edu |
I have read the information in this consent form, and I agree to
participate in this study.
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1a. Please
rate the importance of each reason for describing why no planning for an IR has
been done at your institution to date.
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We want to assess IRs at other institutions generally
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We want to assess IRs at institutions like our own before
taking the plunge |
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We are waiting to join a consortium, partnership, or group |
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We do not understand or believe in the value or
effectiveness of an IR |
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We do not need an IR |
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We will outsource IR services to another institution,
consortium, partnership, or group |
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We are waiting for funding to support planning |
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We have no available resources to support planning |
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We have no in-house expertise for planning |
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Other priorities, issues, activities, etc., are more
pressing than an IR |
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We are not convinced that an IR would benefit our
institution's learning community |
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We have no support from our institution's administration |
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We have no support from our library's administration |
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We have no support from our institution's information
technology group |
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We doubt members of our institution's learning community
will contribute to an IR |
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Other (Please specify in question 1b below) |
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* Key to abbreviations:
VI=Very important, SI=Somewhat important, SU=Somewhat unimportant, VU=Very
unimportant, NO=No opinion, DK=Don't know, NA=Not applicable |
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1b. If
you rated "Other" for the previous question, please specify in the box below.
2a. How
important are each of the following to your institution?
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What other institutions generally are doing with regard to
IRs |
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What institutions comparable to my own are doing with
regard to IRs |
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What is the impetus for IR planning and implementation at
other institutions generally |
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