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
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Martin Moyle
Digital Curation Manager
UCL Library Services
UCL (University College London)
Gower Street
London WC1E 6BT
Tel: 020 7679 4351 (Internal ext. 34351)
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