1. RSP Repository Services Day
Put it in the Depot
Theo Andrew
Project Manger, EDINA
RSP Repository Services Day
23rd April 2008
How many have a functioning repository in your institution?
How many do not have a repository or are in the process of setting one up?
How many do not know?
The Depot will be relevant to all of you.
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2. Introduction
The purpose of the Depot is to help ensure that all UK academics can enjoy the benefits of Open Access for their research outputs – in line with JISC strategy for UK education and research and funded as a national online facility as part of its Repositories Programme.

3. Purpose & background
National e-print repository service for the interim period
Enables all UK academics to share in benefits of OA
Enables all UK academics to meet the requirements of funder’s mandates
Many universities and other academic institutions have already invested in a repository for their staff, but as yet this is not comprehensive and so for many UK researchers there is no current provision for open access dissemination of their research. The role of the Depot is to bridge that gap, complementing existing institutional repositories (IRs) by providing a repository for the interim period before every university has such repository provision – and simplifying the message for Open Access (“put it in the Depot”). In doing so, the Depot helps create a level playing field for open access deposit by all in UK higher education, especially when there are mandates by grant-funding bodies such as UK research councils.

4. Purpose & background

5. Purpose & background
National e-print repository service for the interim period
Enable all UK academics to share in benefits of OA
Enable all UK academics to meet the requirements of funder’s mandates
Assist existing institutional repositories (IR) to make their existence known to their users
Assist new/developing IRs to populate their repository

6. Services Re-direct service (Repository Junction)‏ Deposit Service
to ensure that content that comes within the remit of an existing institutional repository is correctly placed
Deposit Service
OAI-compliant repository for eprints from researchers at IR-less institutions
ensuring eprints are kept safe in the interim period before all have IRs
Transfer Service
supporting transfer of relevant content from the Depot to new IRs as they are established
m2m access service
supports metadata harvesting by service providers
2. post-prints are principal target: articles that have been peer- reviewed and accepted for publication
4 e.g. google intute base oaister

7. Services
post-prints are principal target: articles that have been peer- reviewed and accepted for publication
Green – depot
Red - technologies
Blue – other 3rd parties
Orange – sevices offered by depot

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9. “Put it in the Depot” Services at the front door IP lookup Athens
Depot homepage
Authentication
IR Exists?
IP lookup
Athens
The workflow is simple with users being authenticated using Athens.
Authentications using Shibbolith is planned.
The Depot compairs the authors institution with those listed in OpenDOAR- directory of repositories run my SHERPA.
openDOAR 9

10. Using my athens account we see the institution’s repositories.
Some institutions may have departmental repositories only available to certain authors. Hence the author can either chose the appropriate one from their institution or if none exists use the Depot. 10

11. “Put it in the Depot” Services at the front door Depot homepage
Re-direct
to IR
YES
Depot homepage
Authentication
IR Exists? NO
Register to use Depot
To use the Depot you must register and chose a username and password with activation via an .
Depot
deposit 11

12. Then have access to the Manage deposits page.
Can manage existing deposits or add new items. 12

13. The process of deposit is then similar to other EPrints repositories, select type, etc. 13

14. As the Depot is not associated with a particular institution we felt it important to provide as much support to users as possible.
Hence –helpdesk and phone and FAQs.
Also a facility to complain if you feel an eprint should not be in there. 14

15. What’s next? Advocacy Continued Development
Researchers
Repository managers
Grants offices
Continued Development
Deposit interface
Automated transfer service
Contributing to International repository community

16. “Put it in the Depot”