** Cross-Posted **
Thomas, Chuck & McDonald, Robert H. (2007)
Measuring and Comparing Participation Patterns in Digital
Repositories: Repositories by the Numbers, Part 1.
D-lib Magazine 13 (9/10)
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/september07/mcdonald/09mcdonald.html
doi:10.1045/september2007-mcdonald
EXCERPT: "As for mandatory-deposit repositories, the limited
available data indicate authors represented in such repositories
tend to contribute more of their intellectual output. Sale (2006)
predicted institutions establishing deposit mandates were likely
to see such results within three years of implementing these
policies... This study's findings only reinforce such predictions
and arguments favoring institutional mandates. As the data in this
article show, a mandate is arguably the "tipping point" described by
Gladwell (2000) that can make depositing behavior among scholars not
just widespread, but also more of an ingrained and complete behavior."
Received on Tue Sep 18 2007 - 14:55:32 BST