Étiquette : open repositories

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Linking Data Citation to Repository Visibility: An Empirical Study

Authors  : Fakhri Momeni, Janete Saldanha Bach, Brigitte Mathiak, Peter Mutschke

In today’s data-driven research landscape, dataset visibility and accessibility play a crucial role in advancing scientific knowledge. At the same time, data citation is essential for maintaining academic integrity, acknowledging contributions, validating research outcomes, and fostering scientific reproducibility.

As a critical link, it connects scholarly publications with the datasets that drive scientific progress. This study investigates whether repository visibility influences data citation rates. We hypothesize that repositories with higher visibility, as measured by search engine metrics, are associated with increased dataset citations.

Using OpenAlex data and repository impact indicators (including the visibility index from Sistrix, the h-index of repositories, and citation metrics such as mean and median citations), we analyze datasets in Social Sciences and Economics to explore their relationship. Our findings suggest that datasets hosted on more visible web domains tend to receive more citations, with a positive correlation observed between web domain visibility and dataset citation counts, particularly for datasets with at least one citation. However, when analyzing domain-level citation metrics, such as the h-index, mean, and median citations, the correlations are inconsistent and weaker.

While higher visibility domains tend to host datasets with greater citation impact, the distribution of citations across datasets varies significantly. These results suggest that while visibility plays a role in increasing citation counts, it is not the sole factor influencing dataset citation impact. Other elements, such as dataset quality, research trends, and disciplinary norms, can also contribute to citation patterns.

URL : Linking Data Citation to Repository Visibility: An Empirical Study

DOI : https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2506.09530

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Performance of the Nigerian Open Access Repositories

Authors : Binta Ladan Farouk, Karimatu Isa Maisango, Alkasim Hamisu Abdu

Research is undertaken to make human life better. This underscores the need to communicate the research results globally. The possibilities inherent in digital technologies coupled with the understanding that knowledge should be treated as a public good engender the emergence of the open access movement.

The movement aims at making research literature more freely available. Open access is implemented in two major ways: the gold route and the green route. The gold route entails making research literature freely available on publishers’ servers, whereas the green route entails using Open Access Repositories (OARs) to achieve the open access aims.

To date, a few OARs have been hosted in Nigeria to communicate the research produced in the country with the rest of the world. Therefore, this study used content analysis to assess the functionality and effectiveness of OARs hosted in Nigeria. Data were extracted from the Directory of Open Access Repositories (OpenDOAR), and, additionally, the contents of Nigerian repositories were analyzed.

The finding of the study revealed that there is a steady increase in OARs in Nigeria; however, the country lags when compared with its counterparts. It was also discovered that most Nigerian OARs were inaccessible owing to technical problems. At the same time, the contents of the accessible repositories are not consistent with OpenDOAR repository information sheets.

DSpace repository software continues to be the most popular in Nigeria; however, libraries were found to be lagging in housing OARs for their universities. Therefore, it is recommended that stakeholders in Nigeria double their efforts to develop OARs in the country.

URL : Performance of the Nigerian Open Access Repositories

DOI : https://doi.org/10.31274/jlsc.18293

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Platforms, programmability, and precarity: The platformization of research repositories in academic libraries

Authors : Jean-Christophe Plantin, Andrea Thomer

We investigate in this article how repository platforms change the sharing and preservation of digital objects in academic libraries. We use evidence drawn from semi-structured interviews with 31 data repository managers working at 21 universities using the product Figshare for institutions.

We first show that repository managers use this platform to bring together actors, technologies, and processes usually scattered across the library to assign to them the tasks that they value less—such as data preparation or IT maintenance—and spend more time engaging in activities they appreciate—such as raising awareness of data sharing.

While this platformization of data management improves their job satisfaction, we reveal how it simultaneously accentuates the outsourcing of libraries’ core mission to private actors. We eventually discuss how this platformization can deskill librarians and perpetuate precarity politics in university libraries.

URL : Platforms, programmability, and precarity: The platformization of research repositories in academic libraries

DOI : https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448231176758

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La visibilité des mémoires déposés sur DUMAS : une question de discipline

Auteurs : Matthieu Cisel, Nicolas Laudier

S’ils ne sont généralement pas considérés comme des écrits scientifiques de premier plan, les mémoires de Master de bonne qualité peuvent néanmoins se révéler utiles à la recherche, notamment car ils traitent souvent de sujets d’actualité et peuvent ce faisant accélérer le travail de chercheurs plus confirmés.

Encore faut-il qu’il existe des leviers de motivations susceptibles d’inciter les étudiants à mettre à disposition leur travail. Nous nous proposons ici d’explorer au prisme de la théorie de l’échange social l’un des mécanismes qui poussent les étudiant.es à mettre en ligne leur mémoire dans des archives dédiées : la visibilité du travail partagé, mesurée sur la base du nombre de téléchargements du document.

DUMAS, site français qui avait pris son essor à la fin des années 2000, centralisait en 2023 les manuscrits de plus de 50 000 étudiant.es. Via une technique de web scraping, nous avons collecté les métadonnées de l’ensemble ces manuscrits, pour mieux identifier les éléments qui déterminent la visibilité en ligne de ces travaux, tout en portant la focale sur les disciplines.

Nous montrons que les travaux relevant des sciences de gestion, bien que minoritaires dans la base, sont ceux qui attirent le plus l’attention des internautes au fil des ans, qui, au sein du répertoire, semblent rechercher avant tout des écrits à visée praxéologique.

Nous analysons au prisme de la théorie de l’activité d’Engeström les contradictions qui peuvent émerger de la possibilité pour les étudiants d’acquérir via DUMAS de la visibilité au sein du milieu académique comme en dehors de celui-ci.

DOI : https://doi.org/10.4000/13lft

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DeepGreen—A Data Hub for the Distribution of Scholarly Articles From Publishers to Open Access Repositories in Germany

Authors: Tomasz Stompor, Heinz Pampel, Julia Boltze-Fütterer, Beate Rusch

  • DeepGreen is an automated delivery service for open access articles. Originally conceived to take advantage of the so-called open access component—a secondary publication right in Alliance and National licences in Germany to promote green open access—it aims to streamline open access processes by automating the distribution of full-text articles and metadata from publishers to repositories.
  • The service, developed by a consortium and funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) in its initial phase, has successfully established itself as a national service, facilitating open access content distribution and contributing to Germany’s open access infrastructure.
  • As of December 2024, DeepGreen distributes articles from 14 publishers to 84 institutional repositories and 6 subject-specific repositories.
  • This article describes the role of the DeepGreen service in Germany, its collaboration with publishers and the potential of automated processes for storing articles in open access repositories, which, as publicly owned institutional infrastructures, ensure sustainable access and provide secure, redundant storage.

URL : DeepGreen—A Data Hub for the Distribution of Scholarly Articles From Publishers to Open Access Repositories in Germany

DOI : https://doi.org/10.1002/leap.70000

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Open science in Spain: Influence of personal and contextual factors on deposit patterns

Author :  Daniel de Gracia Palomera

Background

This study investigates factors influencing the deposit of academic publications and research data in open access repositories by Spanish researchers.

Methods

Using survey data from a sample of Spanish academics, the research examines the impact of personal attributes (e.g., gender, age, knowledge of open science) and contextual variables (e.g., academic discipline, institutional type) on deposit behaviours. Quantitative methods, including chi-square tests and regression analysis, reveal significant associations between knowledge of open science and deposit practices.

Results

Researchers familiar with open science principles were more likely to deposit multiple versions of articles and datasets, albeit with varying intensity. Key findings highlight disciplinary and institutional differences: researchers in Life Sciences and Experimental Sciences showed higher engagement with both article and data deposits, whereas Health Sciences lagged. Gender differences were also observed, with male researchers depositing articles and datasets more frequently than their female counterparts, though age showed limited impact. Public institutions exhibited lower data deposit rates despite mandates supporting open access.

Conclusions

The study underscores the need for tailored policies, including awareness campaigns, infrastructure investment, and discipline-specific strategies, to promote equitable and widespread adoption of open science practices. Findings contribute to understanding open science implementation, emphasizing the interplay of individual, institutional, and systemic factors.

URL : Open science in Spain: Influence of personal and contextual factors on deposit patterns

DOI : https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.160207.1

 

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Moving Open Repositories out of the Blind Spot of Initiatives to Correct the Scholarly Record

Author : Frédérique Bordignon

Open repositories were created to enhance access and visibility of scholarly publications, driven by open science ideals emphasising transparency and accessibility. However, they lack mechanisms to update the status of corrected or retracted publications, posing a threat to the integrity of the scholarly record. To explore the scope of the problem, a manually verified corpus was examined: we extracted all the entries in the Crossref × Retraction Watch database for which the publication date of the corrected or retracted document ranged from 2013 to 2023.

This corresponded to 24,430 entries with a DOI, which we use to query Unpaywall and identify their possible indexing in HAL, an open repository (second largest institutional repository worldwide). In most cases (91%), HAL does not mention corrections. While the study needs broader scope, it highlights the necessity of improving the role of open repositories in correction processes with better curation practices.

We discuss how harvesting operations and the interoperability of platforms can maintain the integrity of the entire scholarly record. Not only will the open repositories avoid damaging its reliability through ambiguous reporting, but on the contrary, they will also strengthen it.

URL : Moving Open Repositories out of the Blind Spot of Initiatives to Correct the Scholarly Record

DOI : https://doi.org/10.1002/leap.1655