[BOAI] The Depot Open Access repository becomes international

[Peter Suber]

[Forwarding from EDINA.  --Peter Suber.]


** Apologies for Cross-Posting **

To coincide with the start of Open Access week, EDINA (a JISC UK-national 
academic data centre based at the University of Edinburgh) is pleased to 
announce that the Depot has been opened up internationally. Building upon 
its initial role given to it by JISC, the Depot is now being opening up 
into a facility to support the Open Access agenda internationally.

The Depot (www.depot.edina.ac.uk)is an assured gateway to make research 
Open Access - we provide two main services:

1. a deposit service for researchers worldwide without an institutional 
repository in which to deposit their papers, articles, and book chapters 
(e-prints).

2. a re-direct service which alerts depositors to more appropriate local 
services if they exist.

The first time a researcher visits the Depot we will automatically check 
with OpenDOAR, the registry for open access repositories, to find a more 
appropriate local repository. If none exists then the author will be 
invited to deposit their research in the Depot. The Depot is OAI-compliant 
allowing deposited e-prints to be 'harvested' by search services, and other 
repositories, giving them instant global visibility.

For the present you can find the Depot at http://www.depot.edina.ac.uk/ but 
working with eIFL-OA we hope to provide a more international URL to denote 
its new role.

Warm regards, Theo (on behalf of the Depot team)

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Theo Andrew
Edinburgh University Library
& EDINA National Data Centre
Tel: 0131 651 3850 (Mon-Weds)
      0131 6502913 (Thu - Fri)

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