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Repositories for research: Southampton’s evolving role in the knowledge cycle

Repositories for research: Southampton’s evolving role in the knowledge cycle
Repositories for research: Southampton’s evolving role in the knowledge cycle
Abstract Purpose – To provide an overview of how open access repositories have grown to take a premier place in the e-Research knowledge cycle and offer Southampton’s route from project to sustainable institutional repository. Design/methodology/approach – The evolution of institutional repositories and open access is outlined raising questions of multiplicity of repository choice for the researcher. A case study of the University of Southampton Research Repository (e-Prints Soton) route to sustainability is explored with a description of a new project that will contribute to e-Research by linking text and data. Findings – A model for IR sustainability. Originality/value – The TARDis Project was one of the first IRs to achieve central university funding in the UK. Combined with increased visibility and citation, the Research Assessment Exercise route has become the ‘hook’ on which a number of IRs are basing their business models. Keywords: Institutional repositories; E-print archives; Digital content repositories; Open Access; TARDis; CLADDIER. Paper Type: Case study
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224-231
Simpson, Pauline
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Hey, Jessie
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Simpson, Pauline
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Hey, Jessie
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Simpson, Pauline and Hey, Jessie (2006) Repositories for research: Southampton’s evolving role in the knowledge cycle. Program, 40 (3), 224-231. (doi:10.1108/00330330610681303).

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Abstract Purpose – To provide an overview of how open access repositories have grown to take a premier place in the e-Research knowledge cycle and offer Southampton’s route from project to sustainable institutional repository. Design/methodology/approach – The evolution of institutional repositories and open access is outlined raising questions of multiplicity of repository choice for the researcher. A case study of the University of Southampton Research Repository (e-Prints Soton) route to sustainability is explored with a description of a new project that will contribute to e-Research by linking text and data. Findings – A model for IR sustainability. Originality/value – The TARDis Project was one of the first IRs to achieve central university funding in the UK. Combined with increased visibility and citation, the Research Assessment Exercise route has become the ‘hook’ on which a number of IRs are basing their business models. Keywords: Institutional repositories; E-print archives; Digital content repositories; Open Access; TARDis; CLADDIER. Paper Type: Case study

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Published date: 2006

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Local EPrints ID: 41240
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/41240
ISSN: 0033-0337
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Date deposited: 08 Aug 2006
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 08:25

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Author: Pauline Simpson
Author: Jessie Hey

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