GL10 – December 8-9, 20081 Grey literature in French digital repositories: a survey J. Schöpfel (University of Lille 3) C. Stock (INIST-CNRS)

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Grey literature in French digital repositories: a survey

J. Schöpfel (University of Lille 3)

C. Stock (INIST-CNRS)

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France, an advanced country in the heart of OA Europe

Source : DRIVER study 2007

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Purpose of survey

Integration of grey literature in French OA:

1. The typology of grey documents

2. The relative part of grey literature

3. The assignment of specific metadata

4. Quality control and policies

5. Access to full text

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Sample: 56 repositories

56

42 4137

25

1713 4

0

10

20

30

40

50

60

March-May 2008

Located in France

Living archive

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Year of creation

0

2

4

6

8

10

12

Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge

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Repository type and institution

InstSubj

Doc

Other

Other

Research

HE

18

6

03

11

7

44

1

0

0

20

5

10

15

20

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Size of repositories and total number of items

1

10

100

1000

10000

100000

1000000

Total number of items (cumulated)

Number of items in archives (ranking)

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Scientific domains

No big archive for life or medical sciences

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Repository type and presence of grey literature

0

5

10

15

20

25

30

Doc-type Institutional Other Subject-based

no

yes

= 79% of all repositories contain GL

(and 100% of institutional archives)

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Content types in French repositories (OpenDOAR)

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Document types

ETD

Reports

Conferences

Commercial publications

Multimedia

Datasets

Other

CoursewareWorking papers

Grey documents = 16% of all items

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GL document types

Working papersCourseware

ETDReports

Conferences

Other or not specified GL

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Size of repository and number of grey items

-1

0

1

2

3

4

5

6

-1 0 1 2 3 4 5 6

Size of repository

Num

ber o

f gre

y ite

ms

HAL

IRD

INRA

PERSEE

INRIA

TEL

HAL SHS

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100% GL repositories and document types

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Specific metadata

0

5

10

15

20

25

30

35

40

no specific GL metadata specific GL metadata

66% of all archives

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OA policy (n=38 archives)

Source: OpenDOAR

55% without policy statement

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Quality control

quality control41%

no quality control or n.d.

59%

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Access to full text

48%

16%

5%

18%

13%

All items Mixed Moving wall Restricted NA

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On usage statistics

•The big silence.•Confirms the DRIVER study 2007: •70% of the repositories do log the statistical data on access but analysis and interpretation « in development » or « problematic ».•No public access to statistics but in some cases, information to authors (CCSD).

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One exception: IFREMER

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IFREMER average downloads: grey vs. white

54

22

148

0

10

20

30

40

50

60A

vera

ge d

ownl

oads

per

item

ETD Reports Conferences Articles etc.

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Conclusion

• A landscape in movement

• Grey takes its place

• Wanted: policy statement

• More wanted: improved bibliographic control

• Mostly wanted: usage statistics

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References

Van de Graaf M. & Van Eijndhoven K. The European Repository Landscape: Inventory Study into the Present Type and Level of OAI-Compliant Digital Repository Activities in the EU. Amsterdam, AUP 2007.

http://dare.uva.nl/document/93725

André F. et al. Institutional repositories. The repository jigsaw. Research Information, 2007, April/May, p. 27.

Merceur F. Fonctionnement et usages d’une archive institutionnelle. IFREMER, October 2008.

http://www.ifremer.fr/docelec/doc/2008/rapport-4632.pdf

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Thank you!

Joachim Schöpfel Charles de Gaulle University of Lille 3

[email protected]++ (0) 33 320 41 61 53 or ++ (0) 33 688 35 01 47

Christiane StockINIST-CNRS

[email protected] ++33 (0) 383 50 46 00