2. The business of digital repositories                                 15
    2.1   Overview                                                      15
    2.2   Digital repository developments in Europe                     17
    2.3   The context, and some definition                             18
    2.4  The value chain                                               20
    2.5  The value proposition from repositories                       22
    2.6  A typology of business models for repositories and
          related services                                             23
    2.7   Components of the business model                             25
    2.8  Viability of the repository                                   29
    2.9   Sustainability of the repository                             36
    2.10 Adaptability of the repository                                40
    2.11 Organised repository networks                                 42
    2.12 Repository services and their business models                 43
3   The population of repositories                                     49
    3.1   Introduction                                                 49
    3.2   Method                                                       50
    3-3  Good practices                                                54
    3-4   Learning from six European good practices                    59
    3-5  Seventeen pointers for stimulating the population of
          repositories                                                 93
    3.6  Conclusions                                                   97
4    Intellectual property rights                                     103
    4.1   Introduction                                                103
    4.2   Intellectual property rights explained                      104
    4.3   Landscape of scholarly information                          112
5   Data curation                                                      131
    5.1   Introduction                                                 131
    5.2  What is data curation?                                        131
    5.3   Digital scientific objects                                  134
    5-4   Data curation and data quality                              139
    5.4  Data curation tools and procedures                           143
    5.6  Conclusion                                                   150
6   Long-term Preservation for Institutional Repositories         153
    6.1 Introduction                                                  153
    6.2  The rationale for digital preservation                       154
    6.3  Digital material                                             159