Institutional repositories (IRs) remain a powerful tool for opening, sharing, and preserving scholarship. Scholarly communication (SC) services and resources are essential to promoting and supporting IRs. Linking SC services within an IR offers support to users at their point of need. This study investigates the prevalence of web linking between IR and SC services in 145 Association of Research Libraries and Carnegie R1 libraries. This quantitative analysis identifies gaps and offers practical recommendations for developing connections between SC and IR websites at academic libraries. . . .
[T]he authors expected a comparable number of SC pages at institutions that had IRs. However, over 30 percent of the study’s library websites did not feature a dedicated SC web page. Furthermore, it is noteworthy that between spring 2021 and spring 2022 there was a 10 percent decrease in the number of institutions that offer SC services information to their user community. . . .
It is reassuring that the number of IRs remained consistent. Another bright spot is the nearly 14 percent increase in links made from the IR to SC services between spring 2021 and spring 2022. . . .
The few IRs in the study that did crosslink back to SC pages (9.1% in spring 2021; 23.0% in spring 2022) often included the SC link directly on the repository’s homepage.
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