Re-reading Ian's response to Antony, it occurred to me that what we are doing may be of interest:
We have been invited to make a proposal for a complete back-end research reporting system that would have the repository only as its public interface. The precise purpose is to provide the kind of grant information that you describe, and to remove uncertainty about versioning by creating a paper trail for every stage in the research production process. The results may vary according to how well it is actually used by academics, but all the same it would improve the current situation immeasurably and provide an effective mandate as well: that is to say, combining research reporting with the database means that if your research isn't deposited, it isn't considered, the best available incentive. (Whether or not it is Green OA and can be pulled across as full text into the public repository is another question of course...)
(It wouldn't work like Google Docs! You can't have everything...)
Does anyone else have experience of a proposal (for a CRIS) of this sort? Thanks,
Talat
> I have a personal belief that the current repository concept is flawed,
> and that institutions should provide a repository for "work in
> progress", complete with descriptive data to associate it with the
> appropriate research grants, researchers, departments, funders, etc.
>
> I believe that the thing we call an "institutional repository" should be
> a slice into this data-corpus, not a database in it's own right.
>
> In this approach, one can use the likes of Google Docs for document
> editing... which provides versioning and so forth :)
> --
>
> Ian Stuart.
> Developer, the Depot
> EDINA,
> The University of Edinburgh.
>
> http://edina.ac.uk/
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