Jodie Double (Univ. Leeds) – RePosit

end of project:
in brief…. 6+ minutes
Jodie Double
j.l.double@leeds.ac.uk
http://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/
Repository Fringe 2011 3-5 August
http://www.jiscreposit.blogspot.com

overview
increase engagement with repositories
by simplifying the method of deposit

goals
Increased engagement with repositories
Increase in deposit numbers
Understand if connected systems have impact
More users engaging with the system
Shared advocacy tools
Community building

the recipe…
Find: 5 HEI partners + 1 commercial partner
Mix in: 1 RMS with 5 different implementations
Sprinkle on top: Agreed aims
Bake with JISC funding
Image: Piyachok Thawornmat/ FreeDigitalPhotos.net

Exeter/Plymouth
Keele

Leeds
Queen Mary

Pearl
ERIC
the landscape…
Keele Repository
White Rose Online
QMRO

Leeds and Queen Mary (production)
Exeter/Plymouth (implementation)
Keele (pilot)

the stage…

stakeholders?
?
Researchers
Institutional Directorate
Research Office
Research Manager
Research Administrators
IT People
Library People

goals (July 2010)
365+
Increased engagement with repositories
Increase in deposit numbers
Understand if connected systems have impact
More users engaging with the system
Shared advocacy tools
Community building

one year on…
Set up and use of project blog
Google Group
Slide deck template (CC licence)
RePosit logo
Other advocacy materials (CC licence)
Advocacy plans for each HEI partner
Survey
Dissemination events
exponential uptake and deposit?
seamlessly functioning systems?

community resources
All the messages*
One library of re-usable/editable content
Open access
* That we could think of!

is life different with a connector?
How to deposit
Who deposits
Where they deposit

Focusing on the benefits
Additional step, not a separate activity
Emphasis on how quick & easy it is
Do it all in one location
One login required
It’s simpler, fewer stages involved?

Focusing on the benefits (2)
Upload your content into [name of repository] via [name of CRIS]

tag lines
One place, one deposit
Deposit your scholarly research, it’s as easy as 1, 2, 3…
+ more

Familiar recipe?
Open Access message is the same
A lot of similarities with repository advocacy
Significant additional information from systems
To talk or not to talk about systems?
Finding the ‘hook’

have numbers increased?
+
yes, maybe, it depends?

carrot
or
stick ????
http://www.freedigitalphotos.net/images/view_photog.php?photogid=2365 Image: Grant Cochrane
http://www.freedigitalphotos.net/images/view_photog.php?photogid=151 Image: SuatEman

lessons…
£100 Amazon gift vouchers = responses
technology is the “easy” part you still have to deal with people
same game different tools
if you build it will they come? Or go to where they are building?

How Can You Help?

Join in the discussion ...start a debate …
http://jiscreposit.blogspot.com/
jiscreposit@gmail.com
http://groups.google.com/group/reposit reposit@googlegroups.com

Jodie Double (Univ. Leeds) – RePosit

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