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Institutional Repositories In The Czech Republic, Kelci Baughman Mcdowell
Institutional Repositories In The Czech Republic, Kelci Baughman Mcdowell
Gleeson Library Faculty and Staff Research and Scholarship
This research project examines the use of institutional repositories (IRs) by academic and research institutions in the Czech Republic. Six Czech institutional repositories are examined in context with the open access (OA) movement in the US and Europe in order to identify what goals have been achieved, what challenges lie ahead, and how the IR functions within the academic ecosystem. IR development in the Czech Republic has been driven by a government statute to provide electronic access to theses and dissertations (ETDs), yet five out of the six IRs hold more content than ETDs alone. Despite not being totally OA, …