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(See appendix B for Informed Consent Form.)
1. How
many institutional repositories (IRs)—general IRs, special-purpose IRs, and IRs
in the pilot-testing phase—are available or will be available to members of
your institution's learning community in the near future?
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5 or more |
Please answer the remaining 42 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.
2. How
long has your institution been involved with IRs (everything from planning,
pilot testing IR systems, to system implementation)? Please enter the number of
months.
3. How
long has your IR been operational, that is, available to authorized users for
submission and searching of digital content? Please enter the number of months.
4. Did
your institution conduct a needs assessment prior to implementing an IR?
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5a. How
important were the results of the needs assessment for:
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NO |
DK |
NA |
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Identifying first adopters of an IR |
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Identifying especially active contributors to the IR |
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Formulating IR policies |
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Making the decision to implement an IR |
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Increasing faculty awareness of the IR |
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Recruiting digital content for the IR |
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Streamlining IR planning and implementation |
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Choosing an IR software package |
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Scheduling the rollout of various IR services |
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Identifying new services to build onto the IR |
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Identifying preservation techniques |
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Other (Please specify in question 5b 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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5b. If
you rated "Other" for the question above, please specify in the box below.
6a. How
important were the results of the following investigative activities in terms
of influencing your institution's decision about implementing an IR?
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VI* |
SI |
SU |
VU |
NO |
DK |
NA |
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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 |
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Learning from reports of other institutions' IR planning,
pilot testing IR software, and implementation activities to date |
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Using other institutions' operational IRs |
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Demonstrating operational IRs to my institution's
decision-makers |
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Demonstrating IR metadata harvesters such as OAIster and
Google Scholar to my institution's decision-makers |
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