Apologies for cross-posting  (I’m too excited to restrict myself to just one list!)

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Share my joy!

 

After over a year of plotting, planning and piloting, we have finally gone live with NECTAR – the Northampton Electronic Collection of Theses and Research.

 

http://nectar.northampton.ac.uk

 

NECTAR is an open access institutional repository, designed to showcase and preserve the research outputs of the University of Northampton.  We intend to hold all types of material: refereed, unrefereed, text and non-text – our main selection criterion is that the research output must previously have been available in the public domain (so presented conference papers are acceptable, but working papers are not).

 

We currently have some 88 live bibliographic records and nearly 1000 more awaiting metadata enhancement and QA.  We’ve gone for the ‘metadata first’ approach because it fits best with our university research practices (we’ve plundered both our RAE submission and the latest Annual Research Report).  Our next step is to gather full content - hopefully we’ll be able to make some inroads to that before our official launch in June.

 

Wish us luck!

 

Miggie Pickton
NECTAR Queen Bee

Research Support Specialist
Department of Information Services
University of Northampton
Boughton Green Rd
Northampton
NN2 7AL

tel: 01604 892245
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