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Dear all, Some list members will already have come across the recent RAND-Europe report "Embracing the future" which was prepared by RAND for the SHERPA-LEAP (London Eprints Access Project) Consortium. The RAND team was asked to look at some of the issues around embedding repositories in institutional strategy: drivers, barriers, and interventions which might be pursued. RAND conducted a small series of interviews across three case study institutions (Birkbeck, LSE and UCL), with a range of repository stakeholders including researchers and lecturers, senior management and Heads of Department, External Relations, and Library and IT staff, to learn more about their perceptions and motivations. Obviously the report is only a snapshot, with a small and qualitative evidence base, but a fresh perspective may be of interest nonetheless. It is available here: http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR625. The report now comes with a much shorter companion paper focusing on potential ways of addressing the challenges of sustaining institutional repositories: this will be published as a freely available RAND Briefing Paper in the new year, but the final draft can be accessed at http://eprints.ucl.ac.uk/13963. These reports are outputs of the EMBRACE project, which is co-funded by the JISC. RAND Europe is an independent, not-for-profit research institution which helps to improve policy and decision-making through research and analysis. Cheers, Martin -- Martin Moyle Digital Curation Manager UCL Library Services UCL (University College London) Gower Street London WC1E 6BT Tel: 020 7679 4351 (Internal ext. 34351) Email: [log in to unmask]