[BOAI] Sustainable practices for populating repositories

[Iryna Kuchma]

[Forwarded message from Kathleen Shearer]

(Please excuse any cross-posting)

Hi there,

The Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) is kicking off a new
project to collect and disseminate sustainable, replicable best practices
related to populating repositories. The project will result in two outputs:

(1) A public report highlighting best practices and including selected case
studies.

(2) A new section of the COAR website to include links to related resources
such as documents, handouts, presentations, and posters.

We are particularly interested in collecting advice and experience of
institutions in areas such as:

   -  Lessons learned: what’s worked and what hasn't?
   -  Workflows or strategies to gather content and populate repositories
   over time.
   - Long-term staffing, operational plans, or campus partnerships that
   have lead to consistently higher rates of deposit.
   - Automated processes to gather content and populate repositories.
   - Any other long-term activities or operations that resulted in higher
   levels of article deposit.


The focus of this project is on long-term, sustainable activities,
strategies, and operations – i.e. ways in which organizations can improve
deposit rates or increase the content in their repositories on a permanent
basis.****

*How to Contribute:*

Please identify any:

   -  Resources or practices at your institution that you consider to be
   relevant.
   -  Individuals and/or institutions from your region or country that we
   should contact.
   - References to other activities that you are aware of being implemented
   elsewhere.


Email [mkshearer at videotron.ca] any documents that you think might be
relevant including handouts, brochures, articles, websites, or your own
description of an initiative. We will be collecting and reviewing
information in March and April and will be producing a report that will be
made freely available on the COAR website in the spring 2012. ****

Thanks in advance for your input.****

M. Kathleen Shearer
Research Associate
Canadian Association of Research Libraries
mkshearer at videotron.ca
(514) 847-9068
skype: kathleen.shearer2
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