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Primary Research Group Publication Alert
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<span><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.PrimaryResearch.com">www.PrimaryResearch.com</a></span>
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<p><strong><span><span lang="EN-AU">Primary Research Group has
published <em>Institutional Digital Repository Benchmarks,
2013 Edition</em>, ISBN 978-157440-238-4</span></span></strong></p>
<p><span lang="EN-AU">This 117 page study presents data from 33
institutions, mostly universities and other colleges, about
their institutional digital repositories.<span> </span>The
report presents hard data on the holdings of the repositories,
and the growth in their stock of journal articles, books,
dissertations, images, video and other forms of intellectual
property.<span> </span>The study also gives detailed info on
budgets and operating costs, including the cost of professional
labor, as well as details on what is downloaded from the sites
and by whom. These details include data on downloads from within
or outside the institution, and by nation of origin of the
downloader, among other variables.<span> </span>In addition,
the study looks at issues such as marketing the repository,
assuring cooperation from faculty, sources of funding, impact on
the parent institution’s reputation, growth rates of content and
downloading, trends in cataloging and other issues.</span><span
lang="EN-AU"> <br>
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<p><span lang="EN-AU">Just a few of the report’s many findings were
that:</span><span lang="EN-AU"> <br>
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<li><span lang="EN-AU">54.55% of repositories sampled contain
video files.</span></li>
<li><span lang="EN-AU">21.1% of the repositories sampled publish
an annual report.</span></li>
<li><span lang="EN-AU">9.1% of repositories in the sample have
their own Facebook site.</span></li>
<li><span lang="EN-AU">36.3% of colleges in the sample with more
than 25,000 students have formed reciprocal access,
development or marketing arrangements with other digital
repositories.</span></li>
<li><span lang="EN-AU">The median number of direct downloads of
articles, image files and other forms of intellectual property
from the repositories in the sample in the past year was
158,332. The maximum was close to 2,900,000.</span></li>
<li><span lang="EN-AU">Close to 45% of repository downloads come
form scholars and other users within the institution itself.</span><span
lang="EN-AU"> </span></li>
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<p><span lang="EN-AU">A PDF version of the report is currently
available from Primary Research Group and a print version will
be ready to ship on May 8, 2013 and can be ordered now. For a
table of contents, list of participants, questionnaire and free
excerpt, or to place an order, view our website at <a
href="http://visitor.benchmarkemail.com/c/l?u=23ECD76&e=2BD206&c=CD32&t=0&l=2F9C00B&email=aB2iCxLWv8Do9GSh9jjLsOi5nh%2FHe72t">www.PrimaryResearch.com</a>.
The price of the report is $98; site licenses are also
available.</span></p>
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