[GOAL] {Disarmed} Sustainable Practices for Populating Open Access Repositories

[Abby Clobridge]

(Please excuse any cross-posting)


Please consider contributing your best practices, strategies, and ideas
related to sustainable practices for populating repositories to the new
Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) project. More details
below and on the COAR website, http://bit.ly/coar-sbpfpr.

Thank you!

Abby


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[Forwarded message from Kathleen Shearer]



Hi there,

The Confederation of Open Access Repositories
(COAR)<http://www.coar-repositories.org/>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.



Further details are available on the project’s page on the COAR website:
http://bit.ly/coar-sbpfpr.



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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