JISC Institutional Repository

Project manager: Sarah Taylor

Tel ext: 3099

e-mail address: s.e.taylor@bolton.ac.uk|

Project descriptor / activities:

The project aims to create a culture within the university where all research output is deposited within the Institutional Repository.

  Undergraduate and postgraduate students as a value for money service for theses submission and promotion of the Institutional Repository work to potential employers

Short Term
• Procurement and customisation of Institutional Repository software, considering interoperability with other university systems and the open access movement as a whole
• Publication of key policies and documents agreed by stakeholders in the university
• Completion of the 2008 RAE submission as the pilot of the Institutional Repository.

Long Term
• Achieving a culture supporting the Institutional Repository within, where all research output is deposited in the Institutional Repository.
• Inclusion of theses, learning and teaching outputs, administrative documents of the university and raw data

The benefits to the university will be:
• Making accessible details of the university's research output in preparation for the RAE 2008
• standardised CVs
• central archiving for research output
• improved retrieval of information
• long term preservation of the university's research output
• increased dissemination and impact
• a bank of easily accessible research outputs
• a record of the university research output, for marketing purposes
• identification of pockets of research within the university

To include theses, learning and teaching outputs, administrative documents of the university and raw data.

The INSTITUTIONAL REPOSITORY will provide benefits to:
• The 2008 RAE by making research output more readily available to the RAE panels
• Learning and teaching by creating a bank of easily accessible research outputs that can be utilised for learning and teaching
• The university by:
o creating a managed approach to research output
o promoting research output on a global scale
o by raising awareness of similar research interests
• Undergraduate and postgraduate students as a value for money service for theses submission and promotion of the Institutional Repository work to potential employers

 The repository is located at http://digitalcommons.bolton.ac.uk/|

Academic department the project sits within: Learning Support Services

 

Funder(s): JISC|