SPEC Kit 338: Library Management of Disciplinary Repositories · 17
Administration and Staffing
Eight ARL libraries support a disciplinary repository
in some way, and some support more than one (see
Figure 2). The University of Pittsburgh Libraries, for
example, support multiple disciplinary repositories
under two different administration models. Most
commonly, the library partners either with the par-
ent institution or with another institution. It is much
less common for repositories to be administered by
the library independently only PubMed Central and
AgEcon Search are administered by the library alone.
Sustainability of funds for repositories and other
digital resources is a theme in literature about digital
libraries (Maron and Pickle 2013), but only one re-
pository reported an unsustainable funding model.
Confidence of sustainability is probably due to the fact
that seven of the repositories reported parent institu-
tion or internal library regular budget funding. Two of
the three remaining repositories with external grant
funding had a second income stream, which may
explain confidence in sustainability. Two repositories
received funding from multiple external sources. Of
the six repositories that reported the receipt of exter-
nal grant funding, four received funding from federal
sources, and of those, three received funding from the
National Science Foundation (see Table 5).
Figure 2: Administration Models for Disciplinary Repositories
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The library supports a disciplinary
repository in partnership with an
institution other than the parent
The library supports a disciplinary
repository in partnership with
another parent institution entity
The library administers a disciplinary
repository
Number of Repositories Reported Number of Institutions Responding
Repository Who Enters
Metadata?
Metadata
Records
Descriptive Tools Standardized
Vocabularies
Minority Health and
Health Equity Archive
Authors
Repository staff
Student workers
2,550 Local or customized vocabularies
Uncontrolled vocabularies (i.e., user tags, author
keywords)
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