My repository is being aggregated: a blessing or a curse?
Knoth, Petr; Anastasiou, Lucas; Pearce, Samuel (2014-06-10)
Knoth, Petr
Anastasiou, Lucas
Pearce, Samuel
10.06.2014
Julkaisun pysyvä osoite on
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi-fe2014070432366
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi-fe2014070432366
Kuvaus
Presentation at Open Repositories 2014, Helsinki, Finland, June 9-13, 2014
General Track Papers and Panels
Knoth, Petr (Knowledge Media institute, The Open University, United Kingdom)
Anastasiou, Lucas (Knowledge Media institute, The Open University, United Kingdom)
Pearce, Samuel (Knowledge Media institute, The Open University, United Kingdom)
General Track Papers and Panels
Knoth, Petr (Knowledge Media institute, The Open University, United Kingdom)
Anastasiou, Lucas (Knowledge Media institute, The Open University, United Kingdom)
Pearce, Samuel (Knowledge Media institute, The Open University, United Kingdom)
Tiivistelmä
Usage statistics are frequently used by repositories to justify their value to the management who decide about the funding to support the repository infrastructure. Another reason for collecting usage statistics at repositories is the increased use of webometrics in the process of assessing the impact of publications and researchers. Consequently, one of the worries repositories sometimes have about their content being aggregated is that they feel aggregations have a detrimental effect on the statistics they collect. They believe that this decrease in reported usage can negatively influence the funding provided by their own institutions. This raises the fundamental question of whether repositories should allow aggregators to harvest their metadata and content. In this paper, we discuss the benefits fof allowing content aggregations harvest repository content and investigate how to overcome the drawbacks.
Kokoelmat
- Open Repositories 2014 [218]