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This 227-page study
explores the habits and practices of 38 digital repositories
from a collection of universities and non-higher education
institutions in the United States, Canada, England, Australia,
and a host of countries from developed and developing areas
alike. With over 400 benchmarking tables, the report cites
budgetary and revenue data as well as cataloging and open
access statistics, detailing just what items these
repositories contain: books, journals, magazines, textbooks,
audio and video files, and much more. An emphasis is placed on
the repository's marketing efforts, offering insights as to
how institutions utilize blogs, press releases, SEO
techniques, and other linking strategies to advance the
repository's presence. Extensive tracking statistics highlight
trends in user downloads and overall visits while also
exploring the relationships these repositories maintain with
their authors. What strides has the repository taken to
establish itself as a publisher in its own right? Which
academic departments are most frequently represented in the
digital repository? How is the digital repository funded?
These questions and more are answered here, with data broken
out by public or private status of the college, FTE
enrollment, Carnegie class, annual budget, and the number of
years the repository has been in operation.
