Dear all,
Apologies in advance for lengthy e-mail - looking for a few words of advice & wisdom to throw this way.
I am the repository officer here at Newcastle University. We have an in-house built research management system recently launched and a open access research repository (also written in-house, not a proprietary piece of software).
We have an automatic feed of bibliographically checked records from the research management system to our repository, thus our numbers of bib records are ticking up nicely, and I recognise the value of this in itself - lots of data for people to reach the item should them wish to. However, the numbers of full text records are low - around 10% of our total.
I know this is a problem across the repository community, but I wonder if it is something others are struggling with & considering right now.
I think perhaps the stage we are it is looking for a 'strong encouraging statement' from University management.
I'm not sure how much support for a mandate there would be (or even the appetite for it within the library) but at the same time, the numbers depositing are low - it almost seems self-fulfilling.
Having brought my concerns up within the library and the people responsible for the research management system, I am tasked with writing a paper for the University Research Committee. It sounds like I am asking you to do my work here, but I just wanted to get a feel for how you persuaded your wider University to get behind this - if you have done - (aside from the usual wider access, increased impact, REF etc). Maybe there isn't anything & its just a long hard slog - which would be reassuring in its own way!
Apologies for such a long e-mail, and I do appreciate your time.
Many thanks
Paula
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Paula Fitzpatrick
E-Repository Officer
Robinson Library
University of Newcastle upon Tyne
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0191 222 7627
http://eprint.ncl.ac.uk/
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Paula Fitzpatrick
E-Repository Officer
Robinson Library
University of Newcastle upon Tyne
[log in to unmask]
0191 222 7627
http://eprint.ncl.ac.uk/
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