(See appendix B for Informed Consent Form.)

A. Number of IRs

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?

5 or more

B. Specific IR implementation

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.

C. Timelines and Funding

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.

D. Needs Assessment

4. Did your institution conduct a needs assessment prior to implementing an IR?

Yes

Don't know

5a. How important were the results of the needs assessment for:

	VI*	SI	SU	VU	NO	DK	NA
Identifying first adopters of an IR
Identifying especially active contributors to the IR
Formulating IR policies
Making the decision to implement an IR
Increasing faculty awareness of the IR
Recruiting digital content for the IR
Streamlining IR planning and implementation
Choosing an IR software package
Scheduling the rollout of various IR services
Identifying new services to build onto the IR
Identifying preservation techniques
Other (Please specify in question 5b below)
* 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

5b. If you rated "Other" for the question above, please specify in the box below.

E. Influences on IR Implementation Decision

6a. How important were the results of the following investigative activities in terms of influencing your institution's decision about implementing an IR?

	VI*	SI	SU	VU	NO	DK	NA
Results of your institution's needs assessment
Learning about successful implementations at comparable institutions
Learning about successful implementations at a wide range of academic institutions
Learning about available expertise and assistance from a library consortium, network, group of libraries, etc.
An analysis of a thorough literature review of IRs
Learning from reports of other institutions' IR planning, pilot testing IR software, and implementation activities to date
Using other institutions' operational IRs
Demonstrating operational IRs to my institution's decision-makers
Demonstrating IR metadata harvesters such as OAIster and Google Scholar to my institution's decision-makers
Waiting for a critical mass of IR implementation at comparable institutions to happen
Waiting for a critical mass of IR implementation generally to happen
Identifying better digital preservation techniques
Other (Please specify in question 6b below)
* 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

6b. If you rated "Other" for the question above, please specify in the box below.

F. Benefits of IRs

7a. At the beginning of IR planning at your institution, how important did you think these anticipated benefits of IRs would be to your institution?

	VI*	SI	SU	VU	NO	DK	NA
A boost to your institution's prestige
Better service to contributors
Better services to your institution's learning community
New services to learning communities beyond your institution
Maintaining control over your institution's intellectual property
Capturing the intellectual capital of your institution
Contributing to the reform of the entire enterprise of scholarly communication and publishing
A reduction in the amount of time between discovery and dissemination of research findings to scholarly communities
An increase in citation counts to your institution's intellectual output
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
An increase in the accessibility to knowledge assets such as numeric, video, audio, and multimedia datasets
Providing maximal access to the results of publicly funded research
A solution to the problem of preserving your institution's intellectual output
An increase in your library's role as a viable partner in the research enterprise
Reducing user dependence on your library's print collection
Longtime preservation of your institution's digital output
Other (Please specify in question 7b below)
* 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

7b. If you rated "Other" for the question above, please specify in the box below.

8a. Now that you are implementing or have implemented an IR, reassess these same anticipated benefits of IRs and tell whether you think they are less important or more important than you originally thought.

	VMMI*	SMI	SU	NC	SLI	VMLI	NO	DK	NA
A boost to your institution's prestige
Better service to contributors
Better services to your institution's learning community
New services to learning communities beyond your institution
Maintaining control over your institution's intellectual property
Capturing the intellectual capital of your institution
Contributing to the reform of the entire enterprise of scholarly communication and publishing
A reduction in the amount of time between discovery and dissemination of research findings to scholarly communities
An increase in citation counts to your institution's intellectual output
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
An increase in the accessibility to knowledge assets such as numeric, video, audio, and multimedia datasets
Providing maximal access to the results of publicly funded research
A solution to the problem of preserving your institution's intellectual output
An increase in your library's role as a viable partner in the research enterprise
Reducing user dependence on your library's print collection
Longtime preservation of your institution's digital output
Other (Please specify in question 8b below)
* Key to abbreviations: VMMI=Very much more important, SMI=Somewhat more important, NC=No change in importance; SLI=Somewhat less important, VMLI=Very much less important, NO=No opinion, DK=Don't know, NA=Not applicable

8b. If you rated "Other" for the question above, please specify in the box below.

G. People involved in the IR effort

9a. How active were people in the following positions in terms of leading the charge to get involved with IRs at your institution?

	VA*	SA	SI	VI	NO	DK	NA
Staff at a library network, consortium, or other affiliated group
Your institution's president or chancellor
Your institution's vice president or provost
Faculty governance, e. g., faculty senate, faculty senate assembly, etc.
Your institution's chief information officer
Your institution's archivist
Faculty members generally
A faculty member in particular
Library director
Assistant library director(s)
Library staff member(s)
Graduate student (s)
Undergraduate student(s)
Other (Please specify in question 9b below)
* Key to abbreviations: VA=Very active, SA=Somewhat active, SI=Somewhat inactive, VI=Very inactive, NO=No opinion, DK=Don't know, NA=Not applicable

9b. If you rated "Other" for the question above, please specify in the box below.

10. Who is the individual leading IR implementation at your institution? (Choose one only.)

A faculty member in a particular college, department, or school

Your institution's chief information officer

Your institution's archivist

Library director

Assistant library director

A library staff member

No committee or committee chair has been appointed

Other (please specify)

11. If a committee is involved with IR implementation, identify the positions of the other people on this committee. (Please check all that apply.)

Staff from the office of the president or chancellor

Staff from the office of the vice-president or provost

Staff from the office of the chief information officer

Staff from your institution's legal office

Your institution's chief information officer

Your institution's archivist

Library director

Assistant library director

Library staff member(s)

Archives staff

A faculty member in particular

Graduate student(s)

Undergraduate student(s)

Committee members have not yet been appointed

Other (please specify)

12. How many people are involved in your institution's IR implementation?

H. IR Responsibility

13a. What percentage of the responsibility for an operational IR has been given to various campus units? (Percentages must add up to 100%.)

	% Your institution's central administration
	% Your institution's library
	% Your institution's central computing unit
	% The office of the chief information officer
	% Your institution's archives
	% Various academic colleges, departments, and schools
	% Other (Please specify in question 13b below)

13b. If you provided a percentage for "Other" for the question above, please specify in the box below.

I. Contributions to the IR

14. Who are authorized contributors to your institution's IR? (Choose as many as apply.)

Faculty members

Graduate students

Undergraduate students

Research scientists

Librarians

Archivists

Your institution's administrators

Your institution's press

Your institution's news service

Your institution's central computer services staff

Academic support staff

External contributors

Other (please specify)

15. Who is the major contributor to your institution's IR? (Choose one only.)

Faculty

Graduate students

Undergraduate students

Research scientists

Librarians

Archivists

University and college administrators

Computer services staff

Academic support staff

Other (please specify)

16a. When planning for an IR, what did you think would be the most important reasons why members of your institution's learning community would contribute to the IR?

	VI*	SI	SU	VU	NO	DK	NA
To boost the particular scholar's prestige
To boost your institution's prestige
To contribute to the reform of the entire enterprise of scholarly communication and publishing
To reduce the amount of time between discovery and dissemination of research findings to scholarly communities
To increase citation counts to the particular scholar's oeuvre
To increase citation counts to your institution's intellectual output
To encourage other scholars to provide open access to their intellectual output
To expose the particular scholar's intellectual output to researchers in North America and around the world who would not otherwise have access to it through traditional channels
To expose 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
To place the burden of preservation on the IR instead of on individual faculty members
To increase the accessibility to knowledge assets such as numeric, video, audio, and multimedia datasets
To provide maximal access to the results of publicly funded research
To solve the problem of preserving your institution's intellectual output
To increase the library's role as a viable partner in the research enterprise
To reduce user dependence on your library's print collection
Other (Please specify in question 16b below)
* 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

16b. If you rated "Other' for the question above, please specify in the box below.

17a. How would you assess your methods for recruiting digital content for the IR?

	VS*	SS	SU	VU	NO	DK	NA
Volunteer contributions
Publicity about the IR in campus newspapers
Presentations by staff responsible for the IR at departmental and faculty meetings
Personal visits by staff responsible for the IR to faculty and administrators
Staff responsible for the IR working one-on-one with early adopters
Word-of-mouth from early adopters to their colleagues in the faculty and staff ranks
Publicizing the IR during reference interactions in libraries and archives
Systematic review of faculty, staff, center, and departmental web sites for potential contributors by staff responsible for the IR
Institution-wide mandates regarding mandatory contribution of certain material types, e.g., doctoral dissertations, master's theses, faculty preprints, etc.
Other (Please specify in question 17b below)
* Key to abbreviations: VS=Very successful, SS=Somewhat successful, SU=Somewhat unsuccessful, VU=Very unsuccessful, NO=No opinion, DK=Don't know, NA=Not applicable

17b. If you rated "Other" for the question above, please specify in the box below.

J. IR Implementation

18a. What IR software package have you implemented? (Choose one only.)

	Pilot Tested	Implemented
ARNO
bePress
CDSWare
ContentDM
DigiTool (Ex Libris)
DiVA
Documentum
Dpubs
DSpace
Fedora
GNU Eprints
Greenstone
HarvestRoad Hive
Innovative Interfaces
i-TOR
Luna
myCORE
OPUS
Sunsite
Virginia Tech ETD software
None
Other (Please specify in question 18b below)

18b. If you checked "Other" for the question above, please specify in the box below.

19. How would you characterize your IR's host? (Choose one only.)

A regional or state-based consortium

A partnership that joins your institution with one or more comparable institutions

Your institution only

A for-profit vendor

A not-for-profit vendor

Other (please specify)

20. What interoperability standards does your IR support? (Choose all that apply.)

IR supports OAI-MPH

IR is OpenURL compliant

IR materials use persistent identifiers

Our institution's federated searching includes the IR

Other (please specify)

21a. Based on your experience with IR implementation, how would you rate your chosen system with regard to these capabilities?

	VA*	SA	SI	VI	NO	DK	NA
Technical support
Technical documentation
Adherence to open access standards
Scalability = System growth and enhancement
Customization
Extensibility = Access to other campus systems and data
Supported file formats
User authentication
Formulating metadata for digital documents
Browsing, searching, and retrieving digital content
End-user interface generally
Controlled vocabulary searching
Authority control
Digital preservation
Other (Please specify in question 21b below)
* Key to abbreviations: VA=Very adequate, SA=Somewhat adequate, SI=Somewhat inadequate, VI=Very inadequate, NO=No opinion, DK=Don't know, NA=Not applicable

21b. If you rated "Other" for the question above, please specify in the box below.

22a. If your efforts to implement an IR involved pilot testing IR software packages, what were the most important benefits of the pilot testing?

	VI*	SI	SU	VU	NO	DK	NA
Giving demonstrations to people involved in the IR implementation decision
Giving demonstrations to an institution (s) interested in partnering with us to encourage them in IR implementation
Gauging the interest of potential contributors to the IR
Gauging the interest of potential IR-system users
Identifying the strengths and shortcomings of available IR software
Estimating costs for the technical implementation of an operational IR
Developing the requisite technical expertise for IR implementation
Identifying first adopters of an IR at your institution
Control over your institution's intellectual output
Preservation of your institution's intellectual output
Other (Please specify in question 22b below)
* 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

22b. If you rated "Other" for the question above, please specify in the box below.

23. If your efforts to implement an IR involved early adopters of IR technology, from what academic colleges, departments, schools, and service units have they come? (Choose all that apply.)

Your institution's library

Your institution's central computing unit

Your institution's archives