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Improving Institutional Repositories through User-Centered Design: Indicators from a Focus Group
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Materia
user experience
institutional repositories
focus group
digital identity
higher education
educational innovation
higher education
open science
education 4.0
Clasificación UNESCO
5312.04 Educación
Fecha de publicación
2021
Citación
González-Pérez, L. I., Ramírez-Montoya, M. S., & García-Peñalvo, F. J. (2021). Improving Institutional Repositories through User-Centered Design: Indicators from a Focus Group. Future Internet, 13(11), Article 282. https://doi.org/10.3390/fi13110282
Resumen
User experience with intuitive and flexible digital platforms can be enjoyable and satisfying.
A strategy to deliver such an experience is to place the users at the center of the design process and
analyze their beliefs and perceptions to add appropriate platform features. This study conducted
with focus groups as a qualitative method of data collection to investigate users’ preferences and
develop a new landing page for institutional repositories with attractive functionalities based on their
information-structural rules. The research question was: What are the motivations and experiences
of users in an academic community when publishing scientific information in an institutional
repository? The focus group technique used in this study had three sessions. Results showed that
50% of the participants did not know the functionalities of the institutional repository nor its benefits.
Users’ perceptions of platforms such as ResearchGate or Google Scholar that provide academic
production were also identified. The findings showed that motivating an academic community to use
an institutional repository requires technological functions, user guidelines that identify what can
or cannot be published in open access, and training programs for open access publication practices
and institutional repository use. These measures align with global strategies to strengthen the digital
identities of scientific communities and thus benefit open science.
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DOI
10.3390/fi13110282
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- GRIAL. Artículos [441]