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“We are investigating including user (i.e., searchers/browsers of the IR) supplied metadata but are not doing
that yet.”
24. What efforts have been made to ensure or enhance IR interoperability with external systems?
Check all that apply. N=52
Total
N=52
Have
N=35
Planning
N=17
The IR supports OAI-PMH 48 92% 33 94% 15 88%
Persistent identifiers are used for IR materials 45 87% 31 89% 14 82%
The IR is OpenURL compliant 26 50% 19 54% 7 41%
IR content is included in federated searching systems 23 44% 22 63% 1 6%
Other effort 7 14% 3 9% 4 24%
Please describe other effort.
Selected Comments from Respondents
“Crawled by Google and Google Scholar.”
“Currently in pilot planning phase other efforts to be decided.”
“Interoperability evaluation &analysis through grant funding.”
“The eScholarship Repository is an XML Gateway.”
“Theses Canada Portal and NDLTD union catalogue harvest metadata.”
“University System developed shared metadata guidelines.”
Content Recruitment
25. What strategies have been used to recruit content? Check all that apply. N=57
Total
N=57
Have
N=36
Planning
N=21
IR staff have actively identified likely depositors (e.g., users
who have already done self-archiving, authors who publish in
open access journals, or authors who publish in journals with
policies that support self-archiving) and encouraged them to
submit materials
43 75% 28 78% 15 71%
IR staff have made presentations to faculty and others 42 74% 30 83% 12 57%
“We are investigating including user (i.e., searchers/browsers of the IR) supplied metadata but are not doing
that yet.”
24. What efforts have been made to ensure or enhance IR interoperability with external systems?
Check all that apply. N=52
Total
N=52
Have
N=35
Planning
N=17
The IR supports OAI-PMH 48 92% 33 94% 15 88%
Persistent identifiers are used for IR materials 45 87% 31 89% 14 82%
The IR is OpenURL compliant 26 50% 19 54% 7 41%
IR content is included in federated searching systems 23 44% 22 63% 1 6%
Other effort 7 14% 3 9% 4 24%
Please describe other effort.
Selected Comments from Respondents
“Crawled by Google and Google Scholar.”
“Currently in pilot planning phase other efforts to be decided.”
“Interoperability evaluation &analysis through grant funding.”
“The eScholarship Repository is an XML Gateway.”
“Theses Canada Portal and NDLTD union catalogue harvest metadata.”
“University System developed shared metadata guidelines.”
Content Recruitment
25. What strategies have been used to recruit content? Check all that apply. N=57
Total
N=57
Have
N=36
Planning
N=21
IR staff have actively identified likely depositors (e.g., users
who have already done self-archiving, authors who publish in
open access journals, or authors who publish in journals with
policies that support self-archiving) and encouraged them to
submit materials
43 75% 28 78% 15 71%
IR staff have made presentations to faculty and others 42 74% 30 83% 12 57%
