repositories beyond the basics
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Repositories beyond the basics
Stephen Grace
CPD25 workshop on Institutional Repositories, London, 23 March 2015
Outline
• What are the “basics”?
• Expanding content
• Feedback to authors
• Supporting institutional drivers
• Where next?
What are the “basics”?
• Voluntary
participation
• Mediated deposit
by library
• Mostly journal
articles
• Low levels of
engagement
“a set of services that a university offers to the members of its community for the management and dissemination of digital materials created by the institution and its community members”
Clifford A. Lynch. "Institutional Repositories: Essential Infrastructure for Scholarship in the Digital Age" 2003
Expanding content
• Soliciting material identified via Scopus
and Google Scholar
• Electronic theses
• Grey literature
• Research data
Electronic theses
• Lobbied Graduate School to mandate e-
submission from 2013
• Retrospective digitisation of older theses
• Theses make up 28.6% of ROAR
Feedback to authors
• Display downloads
on page
• Altmetric
engagement
• Top ten winners-
builds rapport with
academics
http://hdl.handle.net/10552/1875
Support for institutional drivers
• Will use ROAR for next REF following
adoption of Open Access policy
• Reporting on outputs per School, Centre,
Group and individual
• Internal mini-REF reviews will use
evidence from ROAR
Grey Literature /1
Data.uel
• Promised in Research Data Mgt policy
• Complex requirements, adapted from
ReCollect with DataCite metadata
• Multiple objects per record
• Need cross-repository and external links
• Will need access controls for non-Open
content
Data collections
Multiple files per data
collection:
• Dataset
• Code books/ data
dictionaries
• Instruments (survey
designs, etc)
• Images, videos etc
Links to related items
• Publications in ROAR
(first two items on
right)
• Publications
elsewhere (3rd/4th)
• Datasets elsewhere
(5th)
What’s next
• Jisc-funded “Unlocking thesis data” project
• Assigning ORCIDs via repository
• Used as locus for post-2014 REF and
internal assessments
• Concerted advocacy in support of deposit
mandate
Thank you
Stephen Grace, Research Services Librarianhttp://orcid.org/0000-0001-8874-2671
Email [email protected]
Blog at datamanagementuel.wordpress.com
Twitter @StephenGraceful
roar.uel.ac.uk
data.uel.ac.uk