[Dspace-general] User studies on DSpace

[Ana Alice Baptista]

Dear all,

My name is Ana Baptista and I'm emailing you from Universidade do 
Minho, Portugal.
We are implementing DSpace here at Uminho with (what we believe) the 
first Portuguese version of DSpace. We are now feeding the system with 
Thesis and Dissertations from the whole university. We are also 
starting to involve communities and we have started with 6 of them 
which will make available other scientific documents such as articles 
and reports. We hope to open the doors to our repository by the end of 
Octoober.

We have some students willing to do research using DSpace. In 
particular one of them is interested in studying the users that are 
producers of scholarly resources stored in DSpace. With this in mind, I 
would like to ask you the following:

- Are you doing similar studies in your intitutions? It seems to me 
that, if there are, all these researchers could share experiences that 
would benefit all of them. In particular for us it would be very 
helpful to know similar studies in other cultural contexts.

- Do you know of any international organization willing to sponsor 
these kind of studies?

I'm looking forward to hearing from you.

Best regards,

Ana Baptista