<div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">(Please excuse any cross-posting)</span>
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">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, <a href="http://bit.ly/coar-sbpfpr">http://bit.ly/coar-sbpfpr</a>. </font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"></p><div><br></div>-- <br>Abby Clobridge<br>Director, Clobridge Consulting<i><br>Building a global knowledge society -- linking people with information & knowledge<br>
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</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style>[Forwarded message from </span><b class="gmail_sendername" style>Kathleen Shearer</b><span dir="ltr" style>]</span>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">Hi there,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">The </span><a href="http://www.coar-repositories.org/"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Confederation
of Open Access Repositories (COAR)</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222"> 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: </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">(1) A public report
highlighting best practices and including selected case studies.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">(2) A new section of
the COAR website to include links to related resources such as documents,
handouts, presentations, and posters.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">We are particularly
interested in collecting advice and experience of institutions in areas such
as:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:45pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#222222">·<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:7pt"> </span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">Lessons learned:
what’s worked and what hasn't?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:45pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#222222">·<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:7pt"> </span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">Workflows or
strategies to gather content and populate repositories over time.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:45pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#222222">·<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:7pt"> </span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">Long-term staffing,
operational plans, or campus partnerships that have lead to consistently higher
rates of deposit.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:45pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#222222">·<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:7pt"> </span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">Automated processes to
gather content and populate repositories.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:45pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#222222">·<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:7pt"> </span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">Any other long-term
activities or operations that resulted in higher levels of article deposit.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">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.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><b><u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">How to Contribute:</span></u></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">Please identify any:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:45pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#222222">·<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:7pt">
</span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">Resources or
practices at your institution that you consider to be relevant.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:45pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#222222">·<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:7pt">
</span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">Individuals
and/or institutions from your region or country that we should contact.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:45pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#222222">·<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:7pt">
</span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">References to other
activities that you are aware of being implemented elsewhere.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">Email [</span><a href="mailto:mkshearer@videotron.ca" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1155cc">mkshearer@videotron.ca</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">] 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. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">Further details are
available on the project’s page on the COAR website: </span><a href="http://bit.ly/coar-sbpfpr"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">http://bit.ly/coar-sbpfpr</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">Thanks in advance for
your input.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">M. Kathleen Shearer</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">Research Associate</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">Canadian Association
of Research Libraries</span></p>
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