The Current State of Open Access Institutional Repositories of Asian Universities and Highly-Ranked Asian Universities (original) (raw)

The purpose of this study is to investigate the current state of the open access institutional repositories (OA-IRs) of highly-ranked Asian universities. For this purpose, the top-50 Asian universities for the year 2018 were extracted from the U.S. News and Times Higher Education websites. Based on this, the detailed records on OA-IRs of the highly-ranked Asian universities, with all Asian universities that were listed in OpenDOAR, were extracted and analyzed in terms of following indicators: number of depository items, software, content types, country, and disciplinary areas. The highly-ranked universities are concentrated in only a few countries, such as Japan, China, and South Korea. The number of depository items in OA-IR's of highly-ranked universities were significantly differed from OA-IRs of all Asian universities. Despite the variety of ranking methods, except for the number of depository items, substantial differences were not found for the most part between the two highly-ranked university ranking methodologies.