But by the time the University of Rochester made its own open repository in 2005, it was aware of a problem that appeared to be endemic to institutions that already had them: Faculty members were not really publishing much work there.
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...according to Suzanne Bell, a librarian at Rochester, the repositories where those free articles are meant to be kept have not much changed -- and as a result, professors are still unlikely to put their articles there unless their university makes them.
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The revamped “IR+” repository, unveiled last week, focuses on giving researchers an online “workspace” within the repository where they can upload and preserve different versions of an article they are working on. Rochester officials believe their faculty will find this appealing because it lets them access the latest versions of their work from anywhere, an aspect that theoretically would make multi-author collaborations easier.
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Maria Bonn, associate university librarian for publishing at the University of Michigan, said that despite the lag time between its 2005 study and last week’s unveiling, Rochester is still ahead of other universities as far as actively trying to entice researchers to engage with its institutional repository. But there is no guarantee that faculty will use the system, she said; only time will tell whether the frills will work.
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