Comments are requested on a draft document from the presenters of the
"Research Assessment Experience" session at the EPrints User Group
meeting at OR08. The "Institutional Repository Checklist for Serving
Institutional Management" lists 13 success criteria for repository
managers to be aware of when making plans for their repositories to
provide any kind of official 'research reporting' role for their
institutional management.
Although institutional research reporting lays increased burdens on
the staff, the processes and the infrastructure of the repository, the
unanimous conclusion of the presenters at the OR08 session was that
the effort is worthwhile, with the end result being recognition of the
repository and inclusion of its staff in the highest level decision
making committees of the University.
The document is available from the OR08 repository at http://pubs.or08.ecs.soton.ac.uk/138/
The recommendations of the document are platform neutral, and comments
are warmly invited from managers of DSpace, EPrints, Fez, Vital,
eSciDoc, Digital Commons, CDSWare and any other institutional
repository software.
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Les Carr
University of Southampton
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