Annex A - Country Reports

Summary

Below the data collected per country are presented.

• – If more than two participants from a country responded to the survey, the results of a number of key questions in the survey are presented.

• – If more than five participants from one country responded to the survey, answers that are statistically significantly different from the other EU countries are presented as well (chi square test).

• – Many participants commented that as the survey did not cover the institutions in their country completely; these results should be considered with care.

Austria

Deployment status

Number of universities (according to Braintrack) 11

Number of universities (EUA) 16

Number of institutes with DR (source: OpenDOAR) 3

Number of participants this survey 2

Institutional policies (significantly differing from the EU average)

No significant differences found.

Services (significantly differing from the EU average)

No significant differences found.

Stimulants/ inhibitors

• – Most important stimulant (all equally important):

• – our simple and user-friendly depositing process

• – our institutional policy of mandatory depositing

• – awareness-raising efforts among the academics in our institute

• – increased visibility and citations for the publications of the academics in our institute.

• – Most important inhibitor (both equally important):

• – lack of an institutional policy of mandatory depositing

• – lack of integration/linking of the digital repository with other systems in our institute.

Perspective from Austria

According to our information. 3 institutes in Austria maintain a digital repository for research output: the University of Vienna. the economic University of Vienna, and the Austrian Academic of Sciences.

Institutional policies (significantly differing from the EU average)

– The digital repository is integrated/linked with other systems in our institute: 100% in Belgium, versus 56% in the rest of Europe.

Services (significantly differing from the EU average)

No significant differences

found.

Stimulants/ inhibitors

• – Most important stimulant:

• – our simple and user-friendly depositing process

• – Most important inhibitor (all equally important) :

• – lack of an institutional policy of mandatory depositing

• – lack of requirements of research funding organisations in our country about depositing research output in Open Access repositories

• – lack of financial support from a national funding programme for the digital repository in our institute, lack of coordination of a national body for digital repositories