1st Edition
The European Repository Landscape 2008 Inventory of Digital Repositories for Research Output
By Maurits van der Graaf
Copyright 2009
168 Pages
by
Routledge
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... Read more
About the Contributors, About the DRIVER Studies, 1. Introduction, 2. Development of a Repository Infrastructure, References, 3. Research Repositories in Europe, 4. Contents and related Issues, 5. Technical Infrastructure and technical Issues, 6. Institutional Policies, 7. Services created on top of the Research Repositories, 8. Stimulants and Inhibitors for maintaining Repositories, 9. A new Development: thematic Repositories, 10. Quantitative Assessment of the Contents of institutional Repositories, 11. Quantitative Assessment of the Contents of thematic Repositories, 12. Questionnaire for the institutional Repositories, 13. Questionnaire for the thematic/non-institutional Repositories.
Biography
Maurits Graaf
