Open Access Repositories

Open Access week – October 2012 Ian Wellaway

 A website where you can submit data and descriptive metadata Its: ◦ Secure ◦ Robust ◦ Publically accessible (or not if you don’t want it to be) ◦ Archive not backup!

 Free safe storage – better than on a: ◦ PC ◦ Laptop ◦ Pen drive ◦ CD/DVD ◦ External hard drive ◦ Third party storage Backed up every night Your funder Accessible by others Handle – unique identifer (URI) Searchable via search engines (Google, etc)

 Demonstration - eda.exeter.ac.uk ◦ Using the ‘out of the box’ submission process

 Remembers details of a previous submission Allows faster selection of multiple files and or folders Uploads very large files Aimed release: early 2013

 The Dark archive...Dar-kive? ◦ Data not publically accessible ◦ Still securely stored ◦ Same submission process

 Good question – what do you think? Competition

 Ian Wellaway ◦ Infrastructure Systems, Exeter IT ◦ i.j.wellaway@exeter.ac.uk

Open Access Repositories

by OpenExeter on Nov 08, 2012

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