Institutions, their repositories and the Web
Institutions, their repositories and the Web
It will soon be rare for research-based institutions not to have a digital repository. The main reason for a repository is to maximise the visibility of the institution’s research outputs (provide Open Access), yet few contain a representative proportion of the research produced by their institutions. Repositories form one part of the institution’s web platform. An explicit, mandatory policy on the use of the repository for collecting outputs is needed in every institution so that the full research record is collected. Once full, a repository is a tool that enables senior management in research institutions to collate and assess research, to market their institution, to facilitate new forms of scholarship and to enable the tools that will produce new knowledge.
Institutional repositories Open Access Open Access policies Self-archiving
Swan, Alma
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Carr, Leslie
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January 2008
Swan, Alma
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Carr, Leslie
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Swan, Alma and Carr, Leslie
(2008)
Institutions, their repositories and the Web.
Serials Review, 34 (1).
Abstract
It will soon be rare for research-based institutions not to have a digital repository. The main reason for a repository is to maximise the visibility of the institution’s research outputs (provide Open Access), yet few contain a representative proportion of the research produced by their institutions. Repositories form one part of the institution’s web platform. An explicit, mandatory policy on the use of the repository for collecting outputs is needed in every institution so that the full research record is collected. Once full, a repository is a tool that enables senior management in research institutions to collate and assess research, to market their institution, to facilitate new forms of scholarship and to enable the tools that will produce new knowledge.
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Published date: January 2008
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Institutional repositories Open Access Open Access policies Self-archiving
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Local EPrints ID: 264965
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/264965
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