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Research students and the Loughborough institutional repository
journal contribution
posted on 2006-03-06, 11:09 authored by Margaret J. Pickton, Cliff McKnightThis paper investigates the potential role for research students in an
institutional repository (IR). Face-to-face interviews with 34 research
students at Loughborough University were carried out. Using a mixture of
closed and open questions, the interviews explored the students’
experiences and opinions of publishing, open access and the proposed
Loughborough repository.
As both authors and readers, students were most interested in access to
complete theses, postprints and conference papers. The ability to
disseminate their work and receive feedback and commentary were the
most important motivators to students depositing work in the IR, closely
followed by the principle of open access. The greatest deterrents were the
risk of being unable to publish elsewhere later, the ownership of copyright,
and plagiarism.
Appropriate recommendations are made for the implementation of an
institutional repository.
History
School
- Science
Department
- Information Science
Pages
637182 bytesCitation
PICKTON, M.J. and McKNIGHT, C., 2006. Research students and the Loughborough institutional repository. Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 38(4), pp.203-219.Publisher
© SageVersion
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
Publication date
2006Notes
This article was published in the journal, Journal of Librarianship and Information Science [© Sage]. The definitive version is available at: http://lis.sagepub.com/.ISSN
0961-0006eISSN
1741-6477Publisher version
Language
- en