[Dspace-general] Time and cost per item in a repository

[Danianne Mizzy]

Please excuse cross posting. We are trying to pose this question to the 
IR community without regard to platform.

Does anybody have any statistics they'd be willing to share regarding
time or cost per item made available in an institutional repository?

Specifically, how long does it take in total to upload a document, 
including time to:

    * determine if a work is eligible in the first place (i.e.,
      investigating publisher's copyright policy)
    * acquire the full-text (postprints from faculty or publisher PDF
      version)
    * uploading of metadata and document(s) itself
    * any review done before making it fully public on the repository
    * other steps? 

Then any cost figures associated with this whole process.

Any insights appreciated!

Danianne Mizzy

Asst. Head, Engineering Library 
University of Pennsylvania
217 Towne Building
danianne at seas.upenn.edu
(215) 898-5700

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