ETD 2008, Aberdeen, Scotland, June 4 – 7, 2008 Evaluating the NTUA institutional repository Dr. Alexandros Koulouris, Dionysis Kokkinos, Angelos Anagnostopoulos,

Slides:



Advertisements
Similar presentations
KNUST Institutional Repository experience by Abednego Corletey.
Advertisements

The New Improved OpenDOAR Directory of OA Repositories Peter Millington SHERPA Technical Development Officer University of Nottingham, England.
Tips and Resources IASC Cluster/Sector Leadership Training
DAEDALUS - Freeing Research at the University of Glasgow William J Nixon Service Development Susan Ashworth Advocacy.
DRIVER Building a worldwide scientific data repository infrastructure in support of scholarly communication 1 JISC/CNI Conference, Belfast, July.
Curating Research: problems and policy Dale Peters Scientific Technical Manager DRIVER II.
UKCoRR meeting Kingston University, November 2007 Mary Robinson European Development Officer University of Nottingham, UK
UKCoRR meeting University of Nottingham, November 2007 Mary Robinson SHERPA European Development Officer SHERPA, University of.
1 NECOBELAC Project WORK PACKAGE 3 Cross-national advocacy infrastructure.
Institutional Repositories: two consortial models Rachel Proudfoot, White Rose Consortium Rebecca Stockley, SHERPA-LEAP Consortium.
Survey of US ETD Programs: Progress and State of Acceptance - Preliminary Findings Joan Lippincott and Clifford Lynch Coalition for Networked Information.
New Developments in Library and Archives Canadas ETD Program 11 th International Symposium on ETDs Aberdeen, Scotland, June 5, 2008 Sharon Reeves, Manager,
An Introduction to the UK Data Archive and the Economic and Social Data Service November 2007 Jack Kneeshaw, UKDA.
Common Timetabling Platform Project Update January 2009.
Ministerial Conclusions November 2006 David Dawson Senior Policy Adviser Digital Futures.
Knowledge Management at the Gordon – Staff Portal Project Presented by Deirdre Carmichael 12 September 2008.
A deepening of training needs in digital curation Claudia Engelhardt Framing the digital curation curriculum Florence, 6-7 May 2013.
Benefits of integrated economic statistics for central bank users Richard Walton European Central Bank Berne, 6-8 June 2007.
The institutional repository and research management at the University of Glasgow Susan Ashworth.
IT Task Force Report Item 2.a Significantly expand the Libraries’ emphasis on digital collections, including realigning staffing to emphasize digital areas,
DAEDALUS: Facing the Challenges of eTheses at Glasgow William J Nixon Project Manager: Service Development (DAEDALUS) ETD Berlin, May 2003.
Teula Morgan The Adaptable Repository: Swinburne Online Journals.
Introduction to Implementing an Institutional Repository Delivered to Technical Services Staff Dr. John Archer Library University of Regina September 21,
DIGITIZATION OF COMPUTER SCIENCE QUESTION PAPERS IN BHARATHIDASAN UNIVERSITY LIBRARY By V. MUTHULAKSHMI SUPERVISOR Dr. M. SURULINATHI Assistant Professor.
An online information literacy program: the case of a Greek academic library Ilias Nitsos, Aphrodite Malliari Library, Alexander Technological Educational.
Inter-American Observatory on Security Department of Public Security Secretariat for Multidimensional Security WORKSHOP ON VICTIMIZATION SURVEY IN THE.
The use and convergence of quality assurance frameworks for international and supranational organisations compiling statistics The European Conference.
Technical Services & Cataloging and Classification Jennifer Anielski and Christina Tracy IS 554 Public Library Management.
The Portuguese SDI and its Contribution for the GSDI Cristina Gouveia CNIG Portugal.
Mary Rowlatt AccessIT Project Coordinator MDR Partners
M ETADATA OF NATIONAL STATISTICAL OFFICES B ELARUS, R USSIA AND K AZAKHSTAN Miroslava Brchanova, Moscow, October, 2014.
NRF advocacy role: the National Electronic & Thesis Dissertation Project Dr Daisy Selematsela and Henda van der Berg On behalf of NETD Project Steering.
Practical Advice Morag Greig Advocacy William J Nixon Service Development DAEDALUS Workshop – 27 June 2005.
DATAD WORKSHOP In collaboration With Kenyatta University Nairobi 11 – 12 July 2007 The Database of African Theses and Dissertations (DATAD) Pascal Hoba.
Data curation in an existing infrastructure: Stellenbosch University 1 st African Digital Curation Conference 12 – 13 February 2008 Wouter Klapwijk Senior.
IHSN International Household Survey Network Strategy for the Development of Data: Improve the Availability, Accessibility, and Quality of Survey Data Mahesh.
Annah Macha MPhil Student Department of Library & Information Science, UCT A/Prof Karin de Jager Centre for Information Literacy,
Mary Rowlatt AccessIT Project Coordinator MDR Partners
© Federal Statistical Office of Germany | Q2014, Vienna, 3-5 June 2014 Evaluation in public finance statistics Results of a survey among expert users.
Overview of ETD Initiatives in Pakistan A Case Study of International Islamic University, Islamabad By Yaqub Ali Chief Librarian, International Islamic.
Challenges in Data Collection and Dissemination of National Development Indicators, including MDGs The Experience of Cambodia by Lay Chhan National Institute.
Enhancing Digital Repository of Scholarly Publications at Indian Institute of Technology Bombay by Mr. Mahendra N. Jadhav Assistant Librarian Central Library.
1 PRESENTATION MECOVI PROJECT. 2 MECOVI is the Spanish acronym for Programme for Improvement of Surveys and Measurement of Living Conditions in Latin.
Kingdom of Morocco High Commision for Planning Bouazza BOUCHKHAR 1 European conference on quality in official statistics QUALITY MANAGEMENT IN THE STATISTICS.
The Development of Open Access to ETDs in Canada: a Partnership between Canadian Universities and Library and Archives Canada 8 th International Symposium.
Dr.Johannes Keizer – ICRISAT Workshop on Open Access in Indian Agricultural Research Information Dr. Johannes Keizer FAO of the United Nations.
Establishing E&I capability and best practices at Statistics NZ Vera Costa & Tracey Savage 2008 UNECE Work Session on Statistical Data Editing.
Instructors’ General Perceptions on Students’ Self-Awareness Frances Feng-Mei Choi HUNGKUANG UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH.
Islamic Republic of Iran Country Report of the Islamic Republic of Iran STATISTICAL CENTRE OF IRAN By: Dr. Adel Azar Head, Statistical Centre of Iran
Institutional Repositories in Zambia: Era of change in information preservation, management and retrieval of research materials by University of Zambia.
The Institutional Repository at West Virginia University Resources for Effective Promotion.
Experience of the Statistical Office of Estonia on launching user satisfaction surveys Anne Nuka Head of the Information and Marketing Service.
Open access and libraries in Zimbabwe: a case study of UZ Buhle Mbambo University of Zimbabwe.
The Glasgow Experience: From DAEDALUS to Enlighten William J Nixon and Morag Greig Glasgow University Library IUA Librarians Group, 20 th February 2007.
BUILDING AN INSTITUTIONAL REPOSITORY – CHALLENGES FOR UNIVERSITY OF SWAZILAND (UNISWA) Dr. Zipho Ngcobo.
Dubai Statistics Center practices in Human Resources Management - What is DSC? - Planning - Performing - Measuring and Evaluating - Supporting Factors.
Leadership Guide for Strategic Information Management Leadership Guide for Strategic Information Management for State DOTs NCHRP Project Information.
EXPLORER project Elizabeth Lunt Project Manager De Montfort University.
Migrating IRs: From “Free” to “Fee” Margo Duncan, MLS Terra Bianchi Gullings, MLIS, CA.
Just in Time Digital Southern Offers a Suite of Services for the Entire Campus Zach S. Henderson Library.
Theses in the UK: PhD research, university repositories and EThOS ETD2014 International Conference 24 July 2014 Sara Gould.
Promoting Open Access in Institutions: Glasgow is Enlightened.
Moving on : Repository Services after the RAE
Institutional Repository at NIO: Inspiration to Implementation
Introduction to Implementing an Institutional Repository
How to Design and Implement Research Outputs Repositories
Securing faculty and admin support: an introduction
Albania 2021 Population and Housing Census - Plans
This presentation will probably involve audience discussion, which will create action items. Use PowerPoint to keep track of these action items during.
Building the Measuring Stick
Presentation transcript:

ETD 2008, Aberdeen, Scotland, June 4 – 7, 2008 Evaluating the NTUA institutional repository Dr. Alexandros Koulouris, Dionysis Kokkinos, Angelos Anagnostopoulos, Spilios Zidropoulos National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) Central Library

Outline Project overview IR evaluation –Objectives –Methodology –Statistical analysis –Main conclusions –Future plans Acknowledgements

Project overview Launched after NTUA Senates decision (February 24, 2006) Goals were set ETD submission system was implemented IR pilot testing period began (July 2007) Evaluation was conducted (January 2008) Conclusions were drawn, adjustments were made and new goals were set

Objectives Evaluate the IR service pilot period, focusing on the ETD submission process Refine and improve the above mentioned process Promote the concept of self-archiving and open access

Methodology Web-based survey –consisting of seven questions with pre-defined Likert values –targeting on the ETD submission users population An internal piloting was conducted beforehand Submissions between July 1 st 2007 and January 31 st 2008 were used 78 out of 128 users responded (61%)

ETD submission process

Statistical analysis Data were imported into and processed by SPSS Frequency and cross tabulations tables, correlations, and chi-square tests (x²), derived from SPSS Excel was used in table processing and charts output Key results were exposed online, updated in real time

An example

Another example

Online results screenshot

Main conclusions Younger users use the IR more Thesis type (diploma, master, Ph.D.) is irrelevant to the access policy selection Number of IR staff members should increase Fully automated metadata importing process is crucial Staff and user training is necessary

Future plans Process weaknesses detected will be rectified Full text searching capability is under consideration Automated batch importing system is under development A new survey will be conducted, involving all the university departments Establishing a strategic preservation plan

Acknowledgements The project is co-funded by European Social Fund and National Resources

Thank you Dr. Alexandros Koulouris, Dionysis Kokkinos, Angelos Anagnostopoulos, Spilios Zidropoulos, ETD 2008, Aberdeen, Scotland, June 4 – 7, 2008