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Developing an institutional repository:
issues and challenges

Monday, 27 June 2005 - University of Glasgow

Institutional repositories, that is, "digital collections capturing and preserving the intellectual output of a single or multi-university community"* are in development across the world using a range of free and commercial software such as EPrints.org and DSpace.

Workshop

This one day workshop, run by the JISC funded DAEDALUS project, provided an overview of the issues and challenges which face staff in setting up an institutional repository service. It provided an overview of the open access movement and an update on the Scottish Open Access Declaration launched on 11th October 2004. It looked at both Advocacy and Service Development [software] and included two parallel sessions in these areas.

The workshop was attended by over 35 colleagues from across Scotland and the UK.

Programme [and Slides]

10:00 Registration and Coffee
10:30 Scene setting: Open Access and Institutional Repositories [Slides]
Susan Ashworth
11:00 Setting up a repository: practical advice [Slides] [Questions and Answers]
Morag Greig and William Nixon
12:00 Demonstrations of DAEDALUS services: EPrints, DSpace, Harvester [Slides]
William Nixon
12:30 Buffet Lunch
13:30 Workshop: Advocacy
Morag Greig and Susan Ashworth
Workshop: Service Development [Slides]
Lesley Drysdale and Stephen Gallacher
15:00 Break for Coffee
15:15 Open floor discussion
15:45 Concluding remarks [Slides]
Chris Rusbridge, Director of the Digital Curation Centre
16:00 Close

Location and Further Information

Business School, Level 2
Gilbert Scott Building
West Quadrangle
University of Glasgow

For more information please contact Joan Keenan (j.keenan@lib.gla.ac.uk)

* The Case for Institutional Repositories: A SPARC Position Paper http://www.arl.org/sparc/IR/ir.html

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