RSP Publications & Podcasts

Briefing Papers | Planning Checklists | Podcasts | Publications | Presentations

This page gives details and links for publications, presentations and podcasts prepared by RSP partners and/or written about the Repositories Support Project. Additional presentations may be found under RSP Past Events.

Briefing Papers

Briefing papers are concise introductions to key topics of interest to the community, and are aimed at different repository stakeholders.

Repository Administrators Papers

• Key Stakeholders and Benefits [Updated Jan 2008]
• Promotion [Updated Jan 2008]
• Repository Policy Framework [Updated Apr 2008]
• Workflows [Updated Apr 2008]
• Metadata [Updated Apr 2008]
• Key Services [Updated Apr 2008]
• Specifying Repository Requirements [Nov 2008]
• Handling Version Information [Dec 2008]

Technical Papers

• Preservation & Storage Formats for Repositories [Updated Jun 2008]
• Commercial Repository Solutions [Updated Apr 2008]
• Repositories, Content Management Systems and Portals [Updated Apr 2008]
• Pilot to Production [Updated Apr 2008]
• Open Archives Initiative-Protocol for Metadata Harvesting [Updated Apr 2008]
• Making Effective Use of Your Repository [Updated Apr 2008]
• Persistent Identifiers [Nov 2008]
• Repository Deposit: SWORD [Dec 2008]

Senior Managers Papers

• Institutional Repositories and Records Management by Steve Bailey, Senior Advisor, JISC infoNet [December 2007]
• Repository Staff and Skills by Mary L. Robinson, SHERPA European Development Officer [December 2007]
• Repository Steering Groups by Martin Moyle, Digital Curation Manager, UCL Library Services, and Russell Burke, Electronic Resources Coordinator, King’s College London [July 2008, minor correction October 2008]

Web Advisory Documents

• Cover Sheets by Jenny Delasalle, University of Warwick [March 2009]
• PREMIS Data Dictionary for Preservation Metadata by Sarah Higgins, Digital Curation Centre [March 2009]

Repositories and e-learning materials

The RSP briefing papers and the complete range of JISC briefing papers are designed to be complementary in coverage and approach. In particular, JISC has produced a briefing paper on sharing learning materials in repositories and another on managing and sharing research resources through repositories.

Planning Checklists

These planning checklists are offered as a series of key questions designed to ‘make you think'. Please note that we have not crowded the presentation by trying to offer answers to the questions, many of which may be local or specific to each institution.

• Building Repositories Checklists
  • Before you start
  • Setting up Repositories
  • Policies & Legal Issues
  • Resourcing for Sustainability
• Expanding Content Checklist
Download the combined checklists [PDF].
• Increasing Usage Checklist

The RSP would be interested to hear from you if you have ideas for improving or expanding the planning checklists. Contact support@rsp.ac.uk

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Podcasts

• Research in the open: How mandates work in practice
  featuring contributions by Stéphane Goldstein, Dominic Tate, Robert Kiley, Astrid Wissenburg, Paul Davey, Julia Wallace, Charles Oppenheim, Paul Ayris, Paul Hubbard, Bill Hubbard, and Branwen Hide [15-June-2009]
• EPrints: repository software of the future or of the past?
  featuring contributions by William Nixon, Kate Price, George Harvie, Alan Slevin, Alex Birchall, Sebastian Palucha, Andrew Gray and Lesley Drysdale and featuring an interview with Les Carr, EPrints technical director and training course leader [25-March-2009]
• DRIVER: Promoting digital repositories across Europe
  with Sophia Jones, Mary Robinson, & Bill Hubbard, SHERPA [18-March-2009]
• Digital Preservation: Are repositories doing enough for preservation?
  with Frances Boyle, Neil Beagrie, Barbara Sierman, Chris Awre, David Tarrant, Chris Yates, Rory McLeod, Adrian Brown, Kevin Ashley, & Matthew Woollard [17-March-2009]
• Fedora: Optimum repository software or overkill?
  with Sandy Payette & Thornton Staples, Fedora Commons [10-March-2009]

Publications

• Knowles, Jackie (2007) Class of 2007: The Repositories Support Project Summer School, Ariadne, July 2007, No.52
  http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue52/rsp-summer-sch-rpt/
• Johnson, Gareth J. (2008) The RSP: Unlocking reasearch and education. Information leaflet on RSP services and support for repository managers.
• Bailey, Steve & Knowles, Jackie (2008) Working together for the greater good: the mutual benefits to be gained from engaging with your institutional repository project, RMS Bulletin, July 2008, Issue 144
  http://hdl.handle.net/2160/564

Presentations

• Millington, Peter (2008) Welcome to the Open Access Repository World!, Repository Launch Event, University of Glamorgan, 22nd May 2008
  http://www.rsp.ac.uk/pubs/Glamorgan2008-05-22.ppt, Accessed 27th May 2008.
• Knowles, Jackie & Bailey, Steve (2007) Institutional repositories and records management: overlaps, obstacles & opportunities, HE and FE Records Management and Information Compliance Group Meeting, University of Manchester, 4th December 2007
  http://www.rsp.ac.uk/pubs/ir-rm.ppt, Accessed 5th December 2007.
• Johnson, Gareth J. (2007) The Repositories Support Project, JISC e-Science All Hands Meeting, University of Nottingham, 12th September 2007
  http://www.rsp.ac.uk/pubs/allhands-rsp-sept07.ppt, Accessed 13th September 2007
• Johnson, Gareth J. (2007) The Depot, JISC e-Science All Hands Meeting, University of Nottingham, 12th September 2007
  http://www.rsp.ac.uk/pubs/allhands-depot-sept07.ppt, Accessed 13th September 2007
• Johnson, Gareth J. (2007) OpenDOAR & RoMEO, JISC e-Science All Hands Meeting, University of Nottingham, 12th September 2007
  http://www.rsp.ac.uk/pubs/allhands-openromeo-sept07.ppt, Accessed 13th September 2007