What is the current state of digital repositories for research output in the European Union? What should be the next steps to stimulate an infrastructure for digital repositories at a European level? To address these key questions, an inventory study into the current state of digital repositories for research output in the European Union was carried out as part of the DRIVER Project. The study produces a complete inventory of the state of digital repositories in the 27 countries of the European Union as per 2007 and provides a basis to contemplate the next steps in driving forward an interoperable infrastructure at a European level. This title is available in the OAPEN Library - http://www.oapen.org.

Contents - 6 Acknowledgements - 7 About the authors - 10 About the DRIVER studies - 12 1. Introduction - 14 2. Methods - 16 3. Contents and related issues - 22 4. Technical infrastructure and technical issues - 38 5. Institutional policies - 50 6. Services created on top of the digital repositories - 56 7. Stimulants and inhibitors for maintaining digital repositories - 64 8. Situation per EU country - 72 9. Summary, discussion and conclusions - 76 Annex A - Country reports - 92 Annex B - Background information about the participating repositories - 128 Annex C - Quantitative data of all participants - 131 Annex D - The questionnaire - 132 Notes - 145 References - 147 Index - 148