1. Welsh Repository Network (WRN)

2.  Introduce repositories and their role within institutions  Explore the benefits of an institutional repository to its stakeholders  Explore the information management issues faced by repository managers

3. Hannah Payne Repository Support Officer, WRN

5.  Mechanism for storing, managing and accessing digital content ◦ A database with a web front end  Academic tool ◦ Bibliographic database ◦ Full- content items ◦ Web searchable

6.  ‘Open Access’ ◦ Budapest Open Access Initiative Budapest Open Access Initiative  ‘the free availability of material on the public internet, permitting any users to link to, read and use the full texts of that material, for any lawful purpose, without barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself.’  Research publicly funded but not publicly available

7.  Traditional Scholarly Publishing Model ◦ Facilitates research dissemination ◦ Provides editorial and peer-review  Barriers to dissemination ◦ Subscription costs ◦ Gated online access ◦ Copyright transfer ◦ Publishing timescales

8.  Wider readership ◦ No access barriers ◦ No subscription or other costs  Available anywhere ◦ Worldwide ◦ Internet connection  Indexing by popular search engines ◦ Google, Yahoo!, etc.  Specialist OA search engines ◦ OpenDOAR, ROAR, OAIster OpenDOARROAROAIster

13. Institutional Repository: Key stakeholders Senior Managers Academic authors Repository Staff Publishers Funding Agencies Students/ Researchers Commercial bodies General Public

14.  Marketing showcase  Management information tool ◦ Research reporting ◦ RAE/ REF  Collection stewardship ◦ Consistency of data collected ◦ Economies of scale  Preservation

15.  Increased visibility ◦ Wider audience for research dissemination ◦ Faster dissemination of work ◦ Up to date CVs & webpages  Increased impact ◦ Earlier citation ◦ Higher citations rates ◦ Sustained citation rates  Increased recognition

16.  Free advertising ◦ Hyperlinks to publisher’s final version  Increased readership  New readership  Sustained readership

17.  Fulfils Research funders’ mandates  SHERPA JULIET SHERPA JULIET ◦ Open Access Archiving ◦ Open Access Publishing ◦ Data Archiving Policies

18.  From class suggestions  Easy access to a range of resources  Free access to resources  Access to journals not within subscription  Earlier access to material  Access to groundbreaking research  Publicise and promote your research and yourself as a researcher

19. Jackie Knowles, Project Manager Welsh Repository Network

20. Digital Content CreateStoreShareFindUse

21. Digital Content CreateStoreShareFindUse

22.  New ways of creating digital content ◦ Web 2.0  Different types of content ◦ Multimedia, video, audio files ◦ Complex learning objects ◦ Research data

23. Digital Content CreateStoreShareFindUse

24.  Institutional information management ◦ Current Research Information System ◦ Research Excellence Framework ◦ Type once … use lots  Preservation ◦ Data Management Plans ◦ File types ◦ Versioning

25. Digital Content CreateStoreShareFindUse

26.  Open Access  Metadata ◦ Authority control and controlled vocabularies  Data security

27. Digital Content CreateStoreShareFindUse

28.  Inter-operability & harvesting  Simplifying the increasingly complex information environment and managing user expectations ◦ Immediacy, one stop shop, aggregation, user generated content, personalisation.  Usability & accessibility for both depositors and users

29. Digital Content CreateStoreShareFindUse

30.  IPR and Risk Management  Advocacy and promotion  Proving worth & value for money ◦ Usage metrics Webometrics http://www.webometrics.info/ GFactor http://www.universitymetrics.com/g-factor

31.  Strategy  Policy Framework

32.  Lots of issues to deal with... and more will emerge.  Communication is key – knowing the stakeholders and working in partnership with them.  Repositories cannot be seen in isolation – complete digital management strategy.

33.  Who uses Twitter?  http://twitter.com/ http://twitter.com/  We tweet our project activities as wrnstaff

34.  Get into groups  Choose a stakeholder  Write a ‘tweet’ to promote the repository to that stakeholder  140 characters  Write your tweet on the flip chart  Share!

35.  Welsh Repository Network (WRN) ◦ www.wrn.aber.ac.uk www.wrn.aber.ac.uk ◦ wrnstaff@aber.ac.uk wrnstaff@aber.ac.uk ◦ 01970 628490  Jackie Knowles, Project Manager ◦ jak@aber.ac.uk jak@aber.ac.uk  Hannah Payne, Repository Support Officer ◦ hep@aber.ac.uk hep@aber.ac.uk