I am writing a doctorate proposal on the usage of institutional repositories by postgraduate students in university libraries.
I think it is a subject that can have very different approaches. I think the use of repositories could be related to the area of knowledge or the level of training of students, for example. It could also be explored in the reasons why they use them or not to detect the factors that influence this determination. You can also analyze the type of documentation you are looking for ...
Hi,
Maybe this paper could help:
Evaluating the University of North Texas' Digital Collections and Institutional Repository: An Exploratory Assessment of Stakeholder Perceptions and Use
By: Waugh, Laura; Hamner, Jesse; Klein, Janette; et al.
JOURNAL OF ACADEMIC LIBRARIANSHIP Volume: 41 Issue: 6 Pages: 744-750 Published: NOV 2015
Abstract
The University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries conducted a study on the value of the UNT Digital Library, including its UNT Scholarly Works institutional repository, to investigate the value of the UNT Libraries' digital repositories as perceived by UNT faculty, staff, and graduate students. This evaluation of the impact of the UNT Libraries'-interventions begins a longitudinal view of the overall impact of these digital repositories in order to inform decisions and provide baseline measurements against which future assessment results can be compared. Findings include that an increase in awareness of the UNT Libraries' digital repositories is statistically associated with a greater likelihood of multiple types of use and contributions back to digital repositories. Also, graduate students are, as a whole, more likely to be aware of and use the UNT Libraries' digital repositories than faculty or staff. (C) 2015 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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