Digital repositories and digital libraries are today among the most common tools for managing and disseminating digital object collections of cultural, educational, and other kinds of content over the Web. However, it is ...

The purpose of this paper is to present the current situation regarding open access and institutional repositories (IRs) in Greece. Design/methodology/approach -- This paper reports on the development of IRs in Greece and ...

Η παρούσα εργασία αναφέρεται στην υλοποίηση δύο αποθετηρίων με αρκετά διαφορετικά χαρακτηριστικά του διεπιστημονικού ιδρυματικού αποθετηρίου του Εθνικού Ιδρύματος Ερευνών (Ήλιος) και ενός επικεντρωμένου στις ανθρωπιστικές ...

eSciDoc is the open-source e-Research framework jointly developed by the German Max Planck Society and FIZ Karlsruhe. It consists of a generic set of basic services (“eSciDoc Infrastructure”) and various applications ...

In institutional repositories, simple discovery and submission interfaces help increase documents deposit as scholars have very little time to self-archive. So far, however, usability evaluation of such interfaces has ...

In recent years information systems such as digital repositories, built to support research practice, have struggled to encourage participation partly due to inadequate analysis of the requirements of the user communities. ...