The European Repository Landscape 2008

Inventory of Digital Repositories for Research Output

Maurits Graaf

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2025
• eBook ISBN: 9781040795019
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Index: Politics & International Relations

It is widely acknowledged that a common knowledge base for European research is necessary. Research repositories are an important innovation to the scientific information infrastructure. In 2006, digital repositories in the 27 countries of the European were surveyed, covering 114 repositories from 17 European countries. In follow-up, this book presents the results of the 2008 survey. It shows an increasing number of respondents, but also a further diversification in the character of a repository.,Repositories may be institutional or thematically based, and as such non-institutional as well. 178 Institutional research repositories and 14 thematic and other noninstitutional repositories from 22 European countries took part actively. European practices should be harmonized and the development of state-of-the-art technology facilitated. Authors, institutes and information users are stakeholders in this process. In presenting a state-of the art of developments, this book is a valuable guide for them in developing their policy on research repositories without losing contact with others. The ongoing process of widespread and diversification of digital repositories puts urgency on coherent approach, as a basic feature of repositories is the retrievability of information that may be dispersed over many of them. Continued monitoring of developments will be necessary.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half Title Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Trends in Research Information Management
• Contents
• About the Contributors
• About the DRIVER Studies
• Trends in Research Information Management
• Part 1 Towards the Implementation of a Repository Infrastructure
• Part 2 Digital Research Repositories in Europe
• Part 3 Appendices of the Inventory Study