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The Role Of Irs In Open Access, Ann Connolly
Role Of Institutional Repositories In The Open Access Movement, Ann Connolly
Role Of Institutional Repositories In The Open Access Movement, Ann Connolly
Ann Connolly
Ann Connolly discusses the role of institutional repositories in open access during the Wright State University/Cleveland State University Joint Open Access Symposium.
How Am I Doing? A Framework For Ir Benchmarking, Ann Connolly
How Am I Doing? A Framework For Ir Benchmarking, Ann Connolly
Ann Connolly
A number of new rubrics purport to rank repositories against each other, as if to file them into a neat line from most to least successful. What are these rubrics actually measuring, though, and do they reflect how the institutional repository (IR) community measures its own success? With nearly 400 repositories as a sample group, we looked at how the IR community typically measures progress and compared that with three different ranking systems to see how they matched up. The results suggest that we need a new, platform-agnostic framework that allows institutions to measure themselves against their own unique missions …