Barbara McPake (Director of the Institute of International Health and Development) seen here (left centre) accepting a bottle of champagne on behalf of Rebecca Horn. Helen Muir (Research Support Librarian) presented the prize, and Fraser Muir (Director of Information Services and LRC) and Jo Rowley (Head of Library Services) also offered their congratulations.

It's fantastic to see signs of continued repository uptake across the Higher Education sector in the UK, and 1000 deposits is indeed at splendid achievement. The RSP would like to congratulate the team at QMU, and look forward to seeing continued growth in eResearch!

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There are a number of ways in which these could be used:

* To target one specific, or a couple of academic departments
* Take them to any meetings with academics between now and Christmas
* Use them at any events you may be running before Christmas
* Distribute them at Christmas parties!

Capiltalising on the recent publicity about open access and repositories in Times Higher Education, the RSP hopes that these eye-catching leaflets and posters will be of use to repository staff accross the UK.

In the form of an early Christmas present, packs of 100 professionally printed leaflets and 2 posters have been mailed to repository managers across the UK. Additional copies can be downloaded below:

For printing:

Leaflet Side 1
Leaflet Side 2
Poster

Lower resolution, for web use:

Leaflet Side 1
Leaflet Side 2

And for those who wish to amend the text or image for their own advocacy, here by request are the components, under a CC licence as the other material on the site.

Text
Graphic

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We will be writing to institutions via relevant listservs on Friday October 23rd to find out how many items they have deposited during open access week and to invite entries. The winner will be announced on Wednesday October 28th, following the decision of our independent judges.

Please note that his competition is open to entries from the UK only, and will count fulltext, openly accessible items deposited in repositories between Monday 19th and Friday 23rd October 2009 inclusive.

Best wishes and good luck!!

 

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In a packed programme running over three days, delegates heard talks and presentations from a range of invited specialists, covering a wide range of topics relating to the management and administration of institutional repositories, from digital preservation to the forthcoming REF exercise.

Workshops exploring best practice and s allowed delegates to explore issues in more depth. The numerous and varied networking opportunities meant delegates could catch up with peers and talk to the speakers.

The programme and slides from this event can be found in our events archive.

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This timely event brought together librarians, research managers and information professionals from colleges of art, design, music, drama and communications, to explore issues surrounding open access to outputs in these fields.

Speakers included Andrew Gray from the KULTUR Project, Richard Davis from the University of London Computer Centre, who spoke about the PRIMO Project, Rachel Proudfoot from the White Rose Repository Consortium and international copyright specialist Charles Oppenheim.

The meeting was hosted in the delightful Council Room at the British Academy in Carlton House Terrace, London. Organised with specialists in these fields in mind, the event gave delegates plenty of chance to meet one another and catch up with colleagues over a delicious lunch.

There was plenty of opportunity for delegates to ask questions of each of the speakers, and the day concluded with a plenary discussion, with speakers able to answer the many questions the audience had.

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This one-day meeting brought together speakers and delegates from a wide range of backgrounds to analyse and explore the themes and considerations surrounding mandating open access to research outputs.

The event was held in the light and airy Wren Room at the Royal Institute of British Architects in Portland Place, London. Organised in conjunction with the Research Information Network (RIN) the meeting gave delegates plenty of chance to meet one another and catch up with colleagues over lunch on the balcony.

Speakers included representative from UK research funders such as the Wellcome Trust and ESRC, as well as from HEFCE itself. These presentations were complemented by in informative presentations from Charles Oppenheim of Loughborough University who spoke about the recent 'Houghton Report' and his university's institutional mandate. Paul Ayris of University College London announced and spoke about his institution's forthcoming policies.

There was plenty of opportunity for delegates to ask questions of each of the speakers, and the day concluded with a panel discussion, with speakers able to answer the many questions the audience had.

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Presentations from Adam Field and Tim Miles-Boardwere well received, with delegates having no shortage of questions.

Initial feedback has been very positive, demonstrating that the community really values events of this nature, and welcome the opportunity to meet the experts armed with a list of questions!. Throughout the day, delegates were encouraged to network and ask questions and receive support to any issues arising in their own institutions.

The RSP offers outreach and consultancy visits so if you have any ideas you would like to speak to us about, please don't hesitate to get in touch either at support@rsp.ac.uk or on 0845 257 6860.

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The series opens with four podcasts, featuring 24 contributors and covering topics including repository software, preservation and discovery.

EPrints: repository software of the future or of the past?
Find out how trainees fared using the latest EPrints software to build and populate a repository in one session using a new Web-based page editor.

Fedora: optimum repository software or overkill?
Two directors of Fedora Commons explain why the added power and flexibility of this repository software is worth the steeper learning curve.

DRIVER: promoting digital repositories across Europe.
The SHERPA team leading UK participation in DRIVER show how the project is giving visibility and political voice to European repositories.

Digital preservation: are repositories doing enough for preservation?
Speakers at a workshop on Tackling the Preservation Challenge tell us about practical tools and services to help repositories.

The podcasts are available to download to an MP3 player or listen directly from http://www.rsp.ac.uk/podcasts/

To keep up to date with RSP podcasts, you can subscribe to a project feed or via iTunes

The results of this survey are at: http://www.rsp.ac.uk/software/surveyresults. These are presented as a comparative table, with links to data sheets for individual products and further information.

The questionnaire covered about 50 points, under headings such as:

• Supported Item Types
• User Interface Functions
• User Validation
• Software Platforms & Dependencies
• Machine-to-Machine Interoperability
• Administrators' Functions
• Documentation & Help
• Services
• Exemplar Repositories

Suppliers were asked to distinguish between features that are available now in the current release of their software, and features that are still undergoing testing or or planned for the future.

We hope that this information will be helpful to repository managers, especially those who are specifying new repositories

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