Formalization of the Paper Registration Process to Institutional Repositories

An institutional repository is a system for archiving research outputs such as scholarly papers. In order to increase the number of archived papers in institutional repositories, the registration process controlled by repository managers should be improved. The authors of this paper conducted an investigation on the efforts involved in paper registration with institutional repositories in several universities. The paper shows the result as a formalized workflow of the process. The investigation showed that one of the hardest tasks for repository managers is confirmation of the copyright policy of publishers. The authors developed a system that automatically searches the copyright policy on external databases.