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BukuPopulating Institutional Repository: Faculty's Contribution and Roles of Librarians (presented at the International Seminar and Workshop on Open Source System and Web 2.0 Technology in Libraries, Semarang, Indonesia, 10-11 August 2009)
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Author: Abrizah, A.
Topik: Institutional repositories; Open access publishing; Scholarly communication; Faculty contribution; Librarians' roles; Malaysia
Bahasa: (EN )    
Tahun Terbit: 2009    
Jenis: Papers/Makalah - pada seminar internasional
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Abstract
Institutional Repositories (IRs) ore predicated on contributions by members of a university community, particularly faculty members. In fact, faculty contribution is considered one of the success factors for an IR even though several studies have found low rates of faculty submission. In order to learn how this problem can be addressed in order to provide an institutional repository (IR) that will preserve and disseminate research materials created by or associated with a research intensive university in Malaysia, a web-based survey was conducted to investigate faculty's use of open access repositories, advocacy undertaken, and attitudes toward the contents of IR. Responses were received from 131 academics from 14 faculties, institutes and centres at the university. Research questions posed were, among others "Are faulty aware of Institutional Repositories?; What is their opinion about IRs? Are they willing to contribute in IR, if they are given a chance? Science-based faculty members (such as Medicine, Dentistry, Engineering, Science and Computer Sciences) were overwhelmingly in favour of permitting the deposit of research work, albeit under specified conditions. One half of the respondents mentioned allowing, or even encouraging, the deposit of theses and dissertations. Findings indicated that, as users the academics wanted to find many more types of material in the repository and as authors, they were willing to deposit. Complete theses, postprints and conference papers were acceptable to be deposited in the IR. The ability to disseminate their work and receive feedback and commentary were the most important motivators for the academics depositing their work, closely followed by supporting the principle of open access. The greatest deterrents were the risk of being unable to publish elsewhere later, the ownership of copyright, and plagiarism. However, the faculties in this study are poorly-informed on institutional repositories. Almost two-third does not know if their institution has one. This low level of awareness may results from one current strategy used by the university library to populate its repository in which librarians collect and deposit materials on behalf of faculty members. The implication is that the librarians have an important role to play with regard to the relationship with self-archiving authors, which is a key characteristic of IRs. The paper has identified the following roles that are of the responsibilities of librarians in an IR environment: (a) Understanding the IR software used; (b) Publicity and advocacy of IR; (c) Establishing an institutional mandate; (dj Educating faculty regarding self-archiving issues; (e) Submission review for content and metadata; and (fj Training of authors. Based on methodical IR development informed by best practices in the Open Access community, as well as findings from this study, have been used for repository design customization and functionality enhancements that complement the needs, interests and concerns of the faculty. An outcome of the research is an institutional repository (IRJ to support for a new pattern for scholarly communication, apart from surfacing the university's research output, which have not been tapped on large scale so far. To date, the IR has developed a useful testbed collection of more than 200 theses and dissertations for the Faculty of Computer Science & information Technology community. It utilises DSpace™, an open source digital repository software platform developed jointly by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Libraries and Hewlett-Packard Laboratories. Known as DSpace@UM, it is now available at http://dspace.fsktm.um.edu.my.
Kajian editorial
Paper presented at the International Seminar and Workshop on Open Source System and Web 2.0 Technology in Libraries, Semarang, Indonesia, 10-11 August 2009, organized by Universiti Diponegoro Indonesia. Paper by : Associate Professor Dr Abrizah Abdullah, University of Malaya Presented by : Mr. B.Sudarsono (the former director PDII LIPI); and Ms.Harkrisyati Kamil (formerly the head of British Council Library).
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