Seven Australian universities have established institutional repositories (containing research articles, also known as eprints) that can be analyzed for content and which were in operation during 2004 and 2005. This short paper analyses their content and shows that a requirement to deposit research output into a repository coupled with effective author support policies works in Australia and delivers high levels of content. Voluntary deposit policies do not, regardless of any author support by the university. This is consistent with international data.
History
Publication title
First Monday
Volume
11
Issue
4
Pagination
EJ4
ISSN
1396-0466
Department/School
School of Information and Communication Technology
Publisher
First Monday Editorial Group
Place of publication
United States
Rights statement
Licenced under Creative Commons Attribution (CC)Public Domain http://creativecommons.org/licenses/
Repository Status
Open
Socio-economic Objectives
Information systems, technologies and services not elsewhere classified