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Abstract
What attitudes and perceptions do faculty members, graduate students, and other stakeholders have regarding the institutional repository (IR)? I conducted a study at the University of Western Ontario through a survey of 316 participants from various faculties and in roles ranging from graduate students to tenured faculty members, followed by interviews with 10 faculty members and 3 librarians to discuss aggregate results from the survey. Results suggest a course of action for librarians who work with IRs, based on participants’ perceptions of barriers to use (branding, data ownership, resistance to open access (OA), alternative avenues for self-archiving) and elements of the IR participants enjoy and find motivating for use (continued access for graduates, dissertations and theses, pre-print literature reviews, satisfying OA mandates). Suggested next steps to promote IR uptake cover a number of different areas: mediated deposit; clarify benefits for faculty members; communication between library and users; opt-in features; tenure and promotion; enforcing OA mandates; and collaboration.
Keywords:
- institutional repository,
- open access,
- scholarly communication
Résumé
Quelles attitudes et perceptions ont les membres du corps professoral, les étudiant.e.s des cycles supérieurs et les autres intervenant.e.s à l'égard du dépôt institutionnel (DI)? J'ai mené une étude à l'Université de Western Ontario au moyen d'un sondage auprès de 316 participant.e.s de diverses facultés et occupant des postes allant d'étudiant.e.s de second cycle à des membres permanents du corps professoral, suivi d'entrevues avec 10 membres du corps professoral et 3 bibliothécaires pour discuter des résultats globaux du sondage. Les résultats suggèrent une ligne de conduite pour les bibliothécaires qui travaillent avec les DI, en fonction des perceptions des participant.e.s sur les obstacles à l'utilisation (image de marque, propriété des données, résistance au libre accès (LA), alternatives permettant l'auto-archivage) et des éléments de DI que les participant.e.s apprécient et trouvent motivants à utiliser (accès continu pour les diplômé.e.s, les mémoires et les thèses, des revues de documentation en pré-impression, la satisfaction des mandats LA). Les prochaines étapes suggérées pour promouvoir l'adoption des DI couvrent un certain nombre de domaines différents: dépôt par médiation; clarifier les avantages pour les membres du corps professoral; communication entre la bibliothèque et les utilisatrices et utilisateurs; avantages d'adhésion; titularisation et promotion; application des mandats d'LA; et collaboration.
Mots-clés :
- communication savante,
- dépôt institutionnel,
- libre accès
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