Metadata documentation practices at ARL institutional repositories

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Abstract

This paper describes an investigation into whether institutional repositories at member libraries of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) provide publicly available metadata documentation via the repositories’ websites. The study compares the results of a September 2017 survey with findings from a review of ARL institutional repository websites. Slightly more than half of ARL institutional repositories do provide metadata documentation. Implications of the results are discussed, including specific research questions for moving forward. A call to reimagine documentation as a tool of transparency is delivered.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)667-699
Number of pages33
JournalPortal
Volume19
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - Oct 2019

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Library and Information Sciences

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