A visit to the Digital Repository Federation in Japan
Last week, I was at the University of Hokkaido, in Sapporo, Northern Japan at the invitation of the Digital Repository Federation. The DRF is a federation of universities and research institutions...
View ArticleGreen mandates and gold choices
My doctoral degree arrived by mail this past week in my office at the Centre for Research Communications, where I have been working for two months now as an Open Access Adviser for the Repositories...
View ArticlePromoting open access (OA) scientific publication practices to health...
The Network of Collaboration Between Europe & Latin American-Caribbean (NECOBELAC) countries is a project that aims to promote open access publishing in Europe and Latin America. The project is...
View ArticleScholarly Communications: New Developments in Open Access
On the first day of June, the Wren room, at the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), was filled since early in the morning with librarians, repositories specialists, research officers and...
View ArticleBuilding a successful national network: how we did it in the UK and where...
The Repositories Support Project is hosting a workshop on “building a national network” at the Open Repositories 2012 (OR2012) conference, on Monday July 9th, 1:30pm. This workshop will showcase...
View ArticleSome thoughts on institutional repositories
At the beginning of July, the Repositories Support Project (RSP) team visited the University of Lincoln, to discuss developments for their institutional repository (The Lincoln Repository) and identify...
View ArticleJournal Research Data Policy Bank (JoRD)
* A guest post by Jane Smith, SHERPA Services Development Officer JoRD will shed light on the policies devised by academic publishers to promote linkage between journal articles and underlying...
View ArticleSupporting and enhancing your repository: A joint RepNet/RSP workshop
A joint RepNet/RSP workshop on enhancing Institutional Repositories (IRs) and their metadata sets was held at the BCS in London on January 21st, 2013. The event provided an overview of the UK...
View ArticleRSP Institutional Repositories Summary Data: An update
In May 2011 the Repositories Support Project (RSP) sent a survey to HEI repository staff to collect information about their repositories, such as the software used, staffing, content, and departmental...
View ArticleImplementing Open Access Funders’ Policies
The Repositories Support Project (RSP) ‘Implementing Open Access Funders’ Policies’ event was held at Goodenough College, London, on the 23rd May. The striking venue of “The Great Hall” resembled ‘The...
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