<div dir="ltr">Hi everyone,<div><br></div><div>As promised, here are the summarized results to the survey I sent out in the beginning of January about funding models for repositories. Thank you to all of you who responded, tweeted (and retweeted) so I could get these. Much appreciated and very helpful in guiding us toward coming up with a funding model for new repository. For those who offered, I will be contacting you shortly for a few more details.</div><div><br></div><div>Thank you!</div><div><br></div><div>Steph</div><div><br></div><div>RESULTS:</div><div><br></div><div><div>19 respondents</div><div><br></div><div>Three were identified from outside the U.S. but didn't ask this question until 15 responses were in the hopper.</div><div><br></div>Demographics:<div><br></div><div>Small (<5K stu): 2 (one outside US)</div><div>Med (5-15K stu): 2 (one public, one private)</div><div>Large (15K+ stu): 15 (2 outside US, 3 private)</div><div><br></div>Responsibility for management of repository:<div><br></div><div>Library: 13 (2 of these split w/ IT services, 1 w/ IT & Office of Res)</div><div>IT services: 4 (see above note plus 1 split w/ just IT & Office of Research)</div><div>Other: 2 data archives, one faculty-based data service</div><div><br></div><div>Content published in repository:</div><div><br></div><div>Data: 15 (4 contained data only)</div><div>Documents: 14 (2 contained docs only)</div><div>Images: 12</div><div>Audio/Video: 11</div><div>Other: Two explicitly indicated they were format-agnostic</div><div><br></div><div>Charging for publication of materials in repository:</div><div><br></div><div>Three repositories charged or sometimes charged for services.</div><div>All large, all inside the US. One private, two public.</div><div>User type, service level (incl length of time material is preserved), and file sizes were determining factors though not across all three.</div><div><br></div><div>Extra charges were for:</div><div>More storage space</div><div>Increased levels of support</div><div><br></div><div>Funding of library (and shared w/ library) repositories:</div><div><br></div><div> indicated repository is funded through library bidget. When responsibility for the repository was shared, funding is from budgets of sharing entities. Five mentioned central institutional funding as sole or supplementary source. One mentioned supplementary funding from grant projects.</div><div><br></div><div>Funding of non-library repositories:</div><div><br></div><div>State/nat'l funding with one being fully supported by grants and one stating "public".</div><div><br></div><div>Comments</div><div><br></div><div>A few respondents with repositories managed by the library expressed concern that current funding either is under review or needs to be reviewed because a) it is not sustainable, b) it is being done ad-hoc and hinders planning or c) there is a desire to expand services.</div></div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">-- <br></div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><font size="1" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Stephanie Wright<br></font></div><font size="1" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">------------------------------------------------------------------</font><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="1"><br></font><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11px">Data ServicesCoordinator | University of Washington Libraries</span></font><font size="1"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> | </span>206-685-1540 </font><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11px">| </span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11px">Suzzallo Library, Room G05</span><font size="1"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">1</span></font></div><div><font size="1"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">ORCID: </span>0000-0003-3829-318X </font><span style="font-size:x-small;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">|</span><span style="font-size:x-small;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </span><a href="http://guides.lib.washington.edu/dmg" style="font-size:x-small" target="_blank">http://guides.lib.washington.edu/dmg</a></div></div></div></div>
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