Year: 2009
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: : This paper discusses a needs assessment conducted at the University of Hawaii at Manoa (UHM) to understand how an institutional repository can best meet the scholarly needs of faculty and researchers at that campus. ScholarSpace, the UHM institutional repository, is still in early stages of development; however, two prominent questions need to be addressed. How can faculty members be encouraged to readily deposit their work to ScholarSpace? What can the repository developers do to assist and encourage this process? Since the repository is being developed in order to capture and preserve the intellectual output of the University, as ScholarSpace begins to grow, the developers want to avoid a phenomenon observed at other institutional repositories: a struggle in populating the repositories with content. The needs assessment was created and delivered in an online format addressing faculty, researchers, and graduate students at the UHM campus. Results indicated that, though a majority of respondents would find it helpful to distribute their work in an institutional repository, a substantial number would need further information about the repository. Results also indicated that there are a number of critical issues that will need to be addressed with the UH Manoa academic community in order to make the repository a success. The results are presented and the issues more thoroughly discussed in this paper.
Author: Beth Tillinghast
Institutions: University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, University of Hawaii System
Language: English
Subfield: Library and Information Sciences
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2117548837