Electronic resources and institutional repositories- Timetable

Electronic resources and institutional repositories in informal scholarly communication and publishing

Timetable

Literature review (September 2006 - September 2007)
Data collection
1. Online survey (July- September 2007)
  1. Aims and objectives of survey
  2. Writing of survey and creation online
  3. Collection of survey data
  4. Analysis
2. Repository manager interviews (October 2007 - March 2008)
  1. Call for participants
  2. Selection of participants
  3. Interviews
  4. Analysis
3. Link analysis (March 2008 - May 2008)
  1. Collection of data
  2. Analysis
Write up (June 2008 - April 2009)
PhD thesis submission (May 2009)
Viva (June 2009)

Research design

The following diagram is an overview of the research design process. Research methods

Isabel Galina Russell

Main
Introduction
Aims and objectives
Timetable
Bibliography

Contact details

Survey for repository administrators

An online survey was created and members of the OpenDOAR repository administrators listserv were emailed for data collection. The survey gathered information about depositing behaviour and types of content within their repository.

Case studies

A smaller selection of institutional repositories allowed for a more in depth qualitative approach. Seven case studies were selected from the survey respondents.
Each case study included an in depth interview with the repository manager to dig deeper into the main issues identified from the survey data. This was followed by a link analysis of the case repository looking into what types of web sources were linking to IRs.