Repository Stakeholders: Perceptions, Misconceptions

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Repository Stakeholders Perceptions,
Misconceptions Preconceptions

• Brunel University, 8th Nov
• Jackie Knowles
• Aberystwyth University

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Overview

• Repository Stakeholders
• Misconceptions
• Preconceptions
• Discussions

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Repository Stakeholders

• Academics
• Librarians
• Publishers
• Administrators
• Students
• Joe Public

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Define an Academic?
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Stakeholders Granularity

• Tend to be lumped into a single group
• More shades of grey than BW
• Academics can be (any/all)
• Authors
• Editors/Reviewers
• Advocates Enthusiasts
• Administrators
• Publishers
• Librarians!
• Risk of pigeonholing them
• Targeting with only one kind of message

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Preconceptions - Roles

• Academics
• Too busy/arrogant/know it all to deal with
  repositories
• Librarians
• Metadata and cataloguing minutiae are the key
  issues!
• Uni Administrators
• Want to enforce central control over the
  repository
• Publishers
• Hate open access and will eat us all alive
  (maybe)
• Repository Administrators
• Stuck in the middle/muddle/maze

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Misconceptions

• Semantics
• E.g. Advocacy - A poor turn of phrase?
• More really promotion/marketing
• Operational
• E.g. Metadata a library issue or focus?
• Worry about later(when then?)
• Potential irrelevancy to the big prize
• Conceptual
• E.g. Open access - Will never work / Is the only
  way for success
• Operational/Policy
• E.g. Repository management -Academics / Libraries
  / Someone else should run
• Doomed with / without mandates
• Doomed with / without mediated / self-deposit

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Discussion Points

• Do we have predefined notions?
• Examples?
• Do they interfere with repository running?
• How?
• Have preconceived notions interfered with
  repository success?
• When?
• Are some generalisations true?
• Which?

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• Jackie Knowles
• jak_at_aber.ac.uk
• 01970-62-8490