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(See appendix B for Informed Consent Form.)
Please answer the remaining 30 questions with the one IR in mind
that offers the widest array of services to the most people and greatest number
of constituencies (e.g., faculty members, students, staff, administrators,
guests) in your institution's learning community. Please feel free to message
Soo Young Rieh (rieh@umich.edu) with your
questions or concerns.
1. How
long has your institution been involved in IR planning? Please enter the number
of months.
2. How
much longer is your institution likely to continue IR planning before making
the decision whether or not to implement an IR? Please enter the number of
months.
3a. How
important are these anticipated benefits of IRs to your institution?
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A boost to your institution's prestige |
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Better service to contributors |
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Better services to your institution's learning community |
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New services to learning communities beyond your
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Maintaining control over your institution's intellectual
property |
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Capturing the intellectual capital of your institution |
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Contributing to the reform of the entire enterprise of
scholarly communication and publishing |
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A reduction in the amount of time between discovery and
dissemination of research findings to scholarly communities |
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An increase in citation counts to your institution's
intellectual output |
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Exposing your institution's intellectual output to
researchers in North America and around the world who would not otherwise
have access to it through traditional channels |
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An increase in the accessibility to knowledge assets such
as numeric, video, audio, and multimedia datasets |
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Providing maximal access to the results of publicly funded
research |
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A solution to the problem of preserving your institution's
intellectual output |
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An increase in your library's role as a viable partner in
the research enterprise |
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Reducing user dependence on your library's print
collection |
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Longtime preservation of your institution's digital output
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Other (Please specify in question 3b 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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3b. If
you rated "Other" for the question above, please specify in the box below.
4. What
is the likelihood that your institution will conduct a needs assessment prior
to making a decision about implementing an IR?
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Somewhat likely |
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Somewhat unlikely |
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Very unlikely |
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No opinion |
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Don't know |
5. Has
your institution conducted a needs assessment for an IR?
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6a. How
important are the results of the following investigative activities in terms of
influencing your institution to initiate planning activities for an IR?
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Results of your institution's needs assessment |
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Learning about successful implementations at comparable
institutions |
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Learning about successful implementations at a wide range
of academic institutions |
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Learning about available expertise and assistance from a
library consortium, network, group of libraries, etc. |
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An analysis of a thorough literature review of IRs |