Neil,
We are in exactly the same position as Zoe at Edge Hill below. Eprints were expected to make a fundamental update to its platform sometime soon after Easter, which would include additional OA functionality. It was my understanding that they couldn’t guarantee compatibility of any existing plug-ins after this update. We were very keen to install the RIOXX plug-in (even though it was a work in progress) but with development time scarce the prospect of installing RIOXX, installing the imminent new Eprints update, and then potentially reinstalling or removing the RIOXX plug-in, the best course of action was wait for the Eprints update first. Of course we are still waiting for the imminent update.
Regards,
Michael Reilly
Academic Liaison Librarian (Sciences) │ University of Kent
Tel: 01227 82 4438
Have you seen the Science Exchange blog?
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From: OA Good Practice Project [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Neil Jacobs
Sent: 15 June 2015 22:04
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Subject: Re: adoption of RIOXX 2.0 so far...
Thanks Zoe, all
Some people have replied off-list, with a variety of experiences. You are not alone in waiting for third parties to implement RIOXX on a hosted repository, so I have passed that message on to EPrints already. Others have said they are waiting for local technical capacity to become available, or for clearer indications from RCUK and HEFCE about requirements, or for the DSpace add-on to be ready (very soon), and some have noted that they would need to upgrade their repository first, which is non-trivial.
I'd still be interested in others' views on this.
Many thanks
Neil
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From: OA Good Practice Project [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Zoe Clarke
Sent: 15 June 2015 10:15
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Subject: Re: adoption of RIOXX 2.0 so far...
Hi Neil - thanks for this information. I would find it useful to know other people's experience regarding implementation of RIOXX. At Edge Hill University we have an eprints repository, and the communication from them indicated they will upgrade our repository some time this year, and then implement RIOXX. Information of when this will actually happen has been vague, which is a cause for concern, as we would really like to get RIOXX up and running here. So we are a No.4 on your list of reasons.
Zoe
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From: OA Good Practice Project [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Neil Jacobs
Sent: 15 June 2015 09:23
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Subject: FW: adoption of RIOXX 2.0 so far...
Colleagues on the OA Good Practice list,
You might have seen this update from Paul Walk last week to the jisc-repositories list. RIOXX is a metadata profile that UK institutional repositories can use. There are a few reasons why Jisc has make RIOXX available and encourages its adoption, eg associated with RCUK and REF policies, and we're considering further action that Jisc can take to assist universities in this. So, if your institutional repository is not yet fully using RIOXX, then it would be helpful to know whether that's because, eg:
1. the direct, immediate benefits to your university are not sufficiently clear or compelling 2. you have not been able to get local technical support to implement RIOXX 3. local technical expertise to implement RIOXX does not exist in your institution 4. you are waiting for a third party to update a hosted instance of your repository 5. the third party host for your repository intends to charge a fee to implement RIOXX 6. it is not clear where data would come from to populate the RIOXX fields 7. it is clear where the data would come from to populate the RIOXX fields, but that's a big change in workflow / systems 8. you are waiting for some other reason
It would be really helpful if, either on this list or by email to me personally, you could let me know which, if any, of these applies for your repository. As is usual when asking for information in this way, I will summarise the findings back to the list, and will do that in a couple of weeks to give everyone a chance to comment.
Many thanks
Neil
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From: Repositories discussion list [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Paul Walk
Sent: 04 June 2015 09:35
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Subject: adoption of RIOXX 2.0 so far...
In case people are interested in this, I run an occasional harvest across repositories in the UK which declare support for RIOXX 2.0, take a sample of the first 10 records from each of these, and run two checks on each record:
1. a check for basic RIOXX 2.0 compliance according to the rules at http://rioxx.net/rioxx_basic_v2-0/
2. a check for compliance with the full RCUK requirements as described at http://rioxx.net/v2-0-final/
The outputs of these checks are summarised in a table here:
http://rioxx.net/implementation/
You can drill down into these results for more detail.
Kudos to Glasgow University for achieving 90-100% compliance on the basic RIOXX 2.0 check!
Still waiting to see a valid RIOXX record which completely satisfies the RCUK requirements. Who will be first...?
Paul
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