The Repositories Support Project (RSP) ran from November 2006 – 31 July 2013. During that time the RSP ran 50 face-to-face events; 7 residential schools and 43 one-day events. Over 1,506 delegates attended events, from 257 different organizations. The RSP hosted 16 webinars for 1,017 delegates, 270 of which were international. A large proportion of the international delegates were from the USA, Ireland, Lithuania, Spain, Portugal and Mexico. Delegates also attended online webinars from Argentina, South Africa, Canada, Nigeria, Italy, Germany and other locations. The RSP conducted 94 consultancy visits. You can see a list of the past events below, and you can access where available the accompanying PowerPoint presentations, videos, and photo galleries.
Delegate Map
RSP has been active in supporting the development of the national infrastructure. This map shows the insitutions who have had a representative at an RSP event. We are very pleased that it reflects the national spread of HE institutions.
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27th March 2012, 03:00, Online Webinar
In this free webinar, Scott Lapinski, Digital Resource and Services Librarian, Countway Medical Library, Harvard University, is going to discuss the National Institutes of Health (NIH) public-access policy and the issues and workflows that should be part of any outreach effort to support researchers with repository submission requirements under funder-mandate guidelines. This is the first in a series of webinars on advocacy issues concerning institutional repositories.
This webinar may be of interest to librarians, authors and repository managers.
The webinar will take place on March 27th, 3pm (GMT).
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9th March 2012, 11:00, Online Webinar
In this free webinar Charles Oppenheim, Emeritus Professor of Information Science at Loughborough University, will present on issues related to Web 2.0, the use of non-exclusive Creative Commons licenses and the current situation concerning orphan works.
This webinar may be of interest to librarians, authors and repository managers.
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10th February 2012, 09:30, Nottingham Conference Centre, Nottingham Trent University, Burton Street, Nottingham, NG1 4BU
This free one day event organised by JISC and the Repositories Support Project (RSP) aims to showcase the work of the following JISC Information Environment Programme Repositories: take -up and embedding projects (JISCrte):
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eNova - Visual Arts Data Service (VADS); University for the Creative Arts; and University of the Arts, London
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MIRAGE - Middlesex University
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NECTAR - University of Northampton
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RADAR - Glasgow School of Art
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Hydra in Hull - University of Hull
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EXPLORER - De Montfort University
These projects all completed successfully in December 2011. This event will also have a session on the 'Embedding Repositories: A Guide and Self-Assessment Tool' which was launched in December 2011.
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7th November 2011, 13:00, Miskin Manor Country Hotel and Health Club
This residential school has the theme of Bringing the Emphasis back to Open Access, and Demonstrating Value to Your Institution.
This event will take place in the stunning Miskin Manor Hotel and Health Club, in Miskin to the north of Cardiff. Miskin Manor, nestled in the heart of the Welsh countryside, yet just a few miles from the coast the Manor is less than a mile from the M4 and very easy to access by car.
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5th September 2011, 10:00, BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, 5 Southampton Street London, WC2E 7HA
Building on the success of the R4R end of project workshop, this event will present the findings of the R4R project including plugins for ePrints, DSpace and Fedora. The event will also look to the evaluation of Impact through the MICE project (Measuring Impact under CERIF).
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20th July 2011, 09:00, BCS, London
This workshop will provide an overview of open access, and summarise the issues for publishers and learned societies. It will also outline the problems faced by RoMEO in gathering policy information, and introduce ways in which RoMEO can help publishers optimise their policies for their chosen business model.
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19th July 2011, 10:00, Nottingham University
Building on the successful event 'Learning how to play nicely: Repositories and CRIS' which was orgainsed by the Welsh Repository Network in 2010, this event will look at the interaction of Repositories and CRIS (Current Research Information Systems). This event will also disseminate the findings of the RePOSIT project.
RSP has also invited leading suppliers of Repository and CRIS software who will be taking part in an exhibition which will be held throughout the day in the refreshments area.
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15th June 2011, 09:30, Manchester
This workshop revisits the successful and oversubscribed event held last year with the same name. Workshop participants will explore effective influencing skills, sources of power and methods which repository managers can use to influence key people in their institutions.
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20th May 2011, 09:00, University of Edinburgh
This training day will cover aspects of technical management of an DSpace repository. Aimed at technicians working with established repositories it will focus on aspects of maintaining and customising the software rather than installation.
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1st April 2011, 09:30, Birmingham
SHERPA/RoMEO data is increasingly being used in CRIS systems to integrate publication lists with institutional open access repositories. This is usually achieved using the RoMEO Application Programmers’ Interface, and CRIS applications increased usage of the API 10-fold during 2010. This has performance implications both for CRIS applications and for RoMEO itself.
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| Advocacy on implementing funders' mandates |
27th March 2012, 03:00,
Online Webinar |
| FREE RSP Webinar Copyright - Web 2.0, Creative Commons Licenses and orphan works |
9th March 2012, 11:00,
Online Webinar |
| How embedded and integrated is your repository? |
10th February 2012, 09:30,
Nottingham Conference Centre, Nottingham Trent University, Burton Street, Nottingham, NG1 4BU |
| Autumn School |
7th November 2011, 13:00,
Miskin Manor Country Hotel and Health Club |
| Readiness for REF (R4R) Workshop |
5th September 2011, 10:00,
BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, 5 Southampton Street London, WC2E 7HA |
| SHERPA/RoMEO for Publishers |
20th July 2011, 09:00,
BCS, London |
| Repositories and CRIS: working smartly together. Conference and Software Exhibition |
19th July 2011, 10:00,
Nottingham University |
| Communication Skills for Effective Advocacy |
15th June 2011, 09:30,
Manchester |
| DSpace workshop |
20th May 2011, 09:00,
University of Edinburgh |
| RoMEO and CRIS in Practice |
1st April 2011, 09:30,
Birmingham |
