ASIS&T Annual Meeting Blog

Evaluating Institutional Repositories

November 6th, 2006 laura.robinson

I slipped into the Evaluation papers session yesterday afternoon (Sunday, November 5) and was very interested in the work of Hyunhee Kim of Myongji University and Yongho Kim of Pukyong National University, both universities in South Korea.

The work titled An Evaluation Model for the National Consortium of Institutional Repositories of Korean Universities focused on the evaluation method of various institutional repositories using the “dCollection” system of institutional repositories. The framework of evaluation consisted of:

• content (diversity, currency, size and metadata);
• system and network (interoperability, integration and dCollection homepage);
• uses, users and submitters (material use rate, user satisfaction, submitter satisfaction and support for users and submitters);
• management and policy (budget and staffs, awareness of IR, copyright management, marketing strategies, formal agreement, policies and procedures and archiving methods).

When I asked Ms. Kim what she perceived as the #1 issue in institutional repositories she stated that management and policy were the biggest inhibitors. There was often no ground work laid to attract policy makers to the idea or need for institutional repositories and therefore the value of an IR wasn’t perceived as very high. I’d love to see more about their findings.

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