The Bigger the better?: a comparison of institutional repository statistics

Abstract

This poster presents usage data on institutional repositories at research intensive institutions across the United States and South Africa. Both Mines and CMU host institutional repositories to disseminate their communities’ scholarly outputs. This poster compares CMU and Mines with each other as well as with other academic institutions in South Africa. Various elements on the institution, their libraries, and their repositories were compared. We used data on institutional repositories, including size, content type, and numbers of repositories for our comparisons. Data considered in these comparisons also included institution-level data, such as student enrollment.