Scholarly communication, open access, institutional repositories,citation indexes, open science

Self archiving is defined as storing the scientific research outputs inresearchers’ own web pages/sites, organizational web sites or institutionalrepositories. In this study the self archiving activities of academicians of AtılımUniversity are investigated. For the purpose of the study the web pages of theuniversity, personal web pages of the academicians and open repository of theuniversity are explored. We found the details of 2176 academic activities ofthe instructors in web pages. More than half of these activities (1147 - 53%)consist of refereed journal papers. Almost a quarter of the instructors savedtheir research outputs in the university’s open repository. Yet, those instructorshave not published their works in their personal web pages or institutional webpages. Only 4% of the works are published in personal/organizational webpages. According to the results obtained, the usage of institutional repository isthe common self archiving method in the Atılım University. On the other hand,the personal/organizational web pages should be as a point of attraction in selfarchiving. While discussing the efficient usage of the institutional repository,we suggest that the social networks as a meeting point should include links topersonal/institutional web pages containing academicians’ papers.