Organiserad vetenskaplig elektronisk publicering vid universitet och högskolor i Sverige
(2005)Division of ALM and Digital Cultures
- Abstract
- Institutional repositories are now being created to manage, preserve, and maintain the digital assets and intellectual output of a university. The incentives to change the process of scholarly communication have also begun serving as a strong motivator. There are problems to consider and questions to be solved when dealing with electronic publishing and the implementation of institutional repositories. At present time no summary exists regarding the activities of scholarly electronic publishing at Swedish universities and university colleges.
This Master's thesis aims to describe the current situation regarding electronic publishing and the development of institutional repositories at Swedish universities and university colleges. To... (More) - Institutional repositories are now being created to manage, preserve, and maintain the digital assets and intellectual output of a university. The incentives to change the process of scholarly communication have also begun serving as a strong motivator. There are problems to consider and questions to be solved when dealing with electronic publishing and the implementation of institutional repositories. At present time no summary exists regarding the activities of scholarly electronic publishing at Swedish universities and university colleges.
This Master's thesis aims to describe the current situation regarding electronic publishing and the development of institutional repositories at Swedish universities and university colleges. To investigate the situation, a questionnaire was sent out to 38 academic libraries since they are normally responsible for the electronic publishing within institutions of higher education. Questions were raised concerning the quantity of electronic publishing and which types of academic research get published. The questions also dealt with policy making, interoperability, preservation, economy and national co-ordination of electronic publishing.
The results show that an increasing number of Swedish universities and university colleges publish parts of their academic research in institutional repositories. Among the libraries that do not publish any research electronically the vast majority are planning to in the near future. This indicates a growing importance of electronic publishing of the universities' academic research. The publishing activities are a possibility to expand the libraries role and play an important role in the scholarly communication process. However, most of the libraries in our study that has taken on the role as electronic publishers of academic research lack specific policies and budget for this. Our conclusion is that collaboration within the university is important when implementing and managing an institutional repository and that the establishment of a specific unit to manage the university's electronic publishing is efficient.
Moreover, the libraries participating in our study point out national co-ordination of electronic publishing, like the SVEP-project, as an important tool for the development of digital academic repositories. And with support regarding standards for metadata, solutions for long-term accessibility, available tools and systems for electronic publication a broader dissemination and long-term accessibility can be achieved. (Less)
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- author
- Holmqvist, Kristoffer and Johansson, Tobias
- supervisor
- organization
- year
- 2005
- type
- H1 - Master's Degree (One Year)
- subject
- keywords
- Documentation, universitet och högskolor, nationell samordning, metadata, institutionella arkiv, elektronisk publicering, vetenskaplig kommunikation, vetenskaplig publicering, information, library science, archivistics, Arkiv- och bibliotekskunskap, dokumentation
- language
- Swedish
- id
- 1331756
- date added to LUP
- 2005-11-03 00:00:00
- date last changed
- 2015-11-09 15:21:01
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abstract = {{Institutional repositories are now being created to manage, preserve, and maintain the digital assets and intellectual output of a university. The incentives to change the process of scholarly communication have also begun serving as a strong motivator. There are problems to consider and questions to be solved when dealing with electronic publishing and the implementation of institutional repositories. At present time no summary exists regarding the activities of scholarly electronic publishing at Swedish universities and university colleges.
This Master's thesis aims to describe the current situation regarding electronic publishing and the development of institutional repositories at Swedish universities and university colleges. To investigate the situation, a questionnaire was sent out to 38 academic libraries since they are normally responsible for the electronic publishing within institutions of higher education. Questions were raised concerning the quantity of electronic publishing and which types of academic research get published. The questions also dealt with policy making, interoperability, preservation, economy and national co-ordination of electronic publishing.
The results show that an increasing number of Swedish universities and university colleges publish parts of their academic research in institutional repositories. Among the libraries that do not publish any research electronically the vast majority are planning to in the near future. This indicates a growing importance of electronic publishing of the universities' academic research. The publishing activities are a possibility to expand the libraries role and play an important role in the scholarly communication process. However, most of the libraries in our study that has taken on the role as electronic publishers of academic research lack specific policies and budget for this. Our conclusion is that collaboration within the university is important when implementing and managing an institutional repository and that the establishment of a specific unit to manage the university's electronic publishing is efficient.
Moreover, the libraries participating in our study point out national co-ordination of electronic publishing, like the SVEP-project, as an important tool for the development of digital academic repositories. And with support regarding standards for metadata, solutions for long-term accessibility, available tools and systems for electronic publication a broader dissemination and long-term accessibility can be achieved.}},
author = {{Holmqvist, Kristoffer and Johansson, Tobias}},
language = {{swe}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{Organiserad vetenskaplig elektronisk publicering vid universitet och högskolor i Sverige}},
year = {{2005}},
}