If your institution has a Records Manager and a Records Management Programme
decisions about retention of research data, published papers and administrative
records can all be included in the retention schedule. I think to really move
forward with instutional repositories there needs to be institutional policy
supported by research ethics and research committees. Submission needs to be
built into standard procedures and workflow. I think this issue is about much
more than library staff and researcher/academics and research related data. I
think anyone working towards institutional repositories needs to think seriously
about getting all stakeholders on board and about some (relatively) quick wins
in terms of content - that might not be research data...
Just thoughts from discussions i've been involved in here.
I think this new list is a great facility and look forward to further fruitful
discussions.
Lucy
Lucy Burrow
Records Manager
Corporate Services
Cardiff University
McKenzie House
30-36 Newport Road
Cardiff CF24 0DE
Tel 029 20879002
>>> Leslie Carr <[log in to unmask]> 01/12/06 9:21 am >>>
On 11 Jan 2006, at 14:58, Sarah Kaufman wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> Here at Manchester Metropolitan University, we are currently in the
> process of setting up
> our institutional repository. At this moment, we have yet to
> populate the repository, and
> have yet to establish the best ways in which to get content for the
> repository and at the
> same time raising awareness of the service.
The SPARC Institutional Repositories Checklist and Guide (http://
www.arl.org/sparc/IR/IR_Guide.html ) is a venerable document.
I think current best practice (this really deserves a book of its
own!) involves an intensive and protracted engagement between library
staff and researcher departments. I am most familiar with the efforts
of the librarians at our own institution as part of the JISC FAIR
"TARDis" project. See http://tardis.eprints.org/ for more details.
That project involved a 2-year discussion with key representatives
from each of the 20 schools in the University which is still
continuing today. (It seems that you can't get away from the need for
targeting, developing and maintaining close relationships with key
individuals and helping them do their own advocacy.) Also, you need
to engage with senior University management and get their support
(and positive public statements) to make everyone take the whole
venture seriously.
I have a somewhat external view of these activities, but the key
project personnel Pauline Simpson and Jessie Hey (cc'ed here in case
they are not yet signed up to this list) will be able to provide more
information.
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Les Carr
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