The European repository landscape: inventory study into the present type and level of OAI-compliant digital respository activities in the EU

M. van der Graaf, K. van Eijndhoven

Amsterdam University Press, 2008 - Institutional repositories - 149 pages

The inventory study investigates the current state of digital repositories for research output in the European Union, with the goal of identifying the next steps to stimulate an infrastructure for digital repositories at a European level. It is part of the EU-financed DRIVER project, or Digital Repositories Infrastructure Vision for European Research, which aims to create a knowledge base for European research.

Contents

• About the authors: 9
• About the DRIVER studies: 11
• 1 Introduction: 13
• 2 Methods: 15
• 3 Contents and related issues: 21
• 4 Technical infrastructure and technical issues: 37
• 5 Institutional policies: 49
• 6 Services created on top of the digital repositories: 55
• 7 Stimulants and inhibitors for maintaining digital repositories: 63
• 8 Situation per EU country: 71
• 9 Summary discussion and conclusions: 75
• Annex A Country reports: 91
• Annex B Background information about the participating repositories: 127
• Annex C Quantitative data of all participants: 130
• Annex D The questionnaire: 131
• Notes: 144
• References: 146
• Index: 147

Bibliographic information

• Title: The European repository landscape: inventory study into the present type and level of OAI-compliant digital respository activities in the EU; Surf/EU-Driver Series
• Authors: M. van der Graaf, K. van Eijndhoven
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Amsterdam University Press, 2008
• ISBN: 9053564101, 9789053564103
• Length: 149 pages