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Delete This URLUnderstanding Faculty to Improve Content Recruitment for Institutional Repositories
2005 article
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D-Lib Magazine, 11(1) Institutional repositories offer many clear benefits yet faculty authors have not demonstrated much interest in depositing their content into them. Without the content, IRs will not succeed, because institutions will sustain IRs for only so long without evidence of success. A yearlong study at the University of Rochester has revealed some of the reasons why current IR systems are more useful to faculty in theory than in practice and has resulted in modifications to the University of Rochester’s implementation of the DSpace code to better align the repository with the existing work practices of faculty. Te findings have also caused a complete rethinking of how to explain and promote the IR.
