Publication Type

Journal Article

Version

publishedVersion

Publication Date

11-2023

Abstract

An institutional repository (IR) was launched in 2010 for a university in Singapore. The motivations of setting up an IR were to dissemination the research output through open access, to promote the university and researchers, and to help increase their research impact. Some quantitative and qualitative performance indicators were selected and used to measure the success of the IR. For the review and the performance indicators, the data used came from the IR at SMU, interviews with faculty members, and a study of a set of journal articles available in the IR to test a hypothesis. The results of the evaluation of the IR using various indicators were presented and the factors that were successful in building the IR were having a workflow process between the research information system and the repository, having effective promotional activities, leveraging on institutional policies and research funder requirements to obtain full text, and proactively searching for full text. Some of the success factors and performance indicators might be of interest to other institutions to consider when implementing and evaluating an IR.

Keywords

Institutional repositories, academic libraries, evaluation, performance indicators, strategies, content recruitment

Discipline

Asian Studies | Library and Information Science | Scholarly Communication

Publication

Singapore Journal of Library and Information Management

Volume

49

First Page

15

Last Page

25

ISSN

0085-6118

Publisher

Library Association of Singapore

City or Country

Singapore

Embargo Period

11-21-2023

Copyright Owner and License

Authors

Additional URL

https://www.las.org.sg/wp/sjlim/files/SJLIM-2023-2-Evaluating-an-institutional-repository.pdf

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