Leveraging the repository infrastructure to curate institutional heritage materials, learning objects and data assets
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2015
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Developing and maintaining a successful institutional repository for research publications requires a considerable investment by the institution. Most of the money is spent on developing the skill-sets of existing staff or hiring new staff with the necessary skills. The return on this investment can be magnified by using this valuable infrastructure to curate collections of other materials such as learning objects, student work, conference proceedings and institutional or local community heritage materials. When Queensland University of Technology (QUT) implemented its repository for research publications (QUT ePrints) over 11 years ago, it was one of the first institutional repositories to be established in Australia. Currently, the repository holds over 29,000 open access research publications and the cumulative total number of full-text downloads for these document now exceeds 16 million. The full-text deposit rate for recently-published peer reviewed papers (currently over 74%) shows how well the repository has been embraced by QUT researchers. The success of QUT ePrints has resulted in requests to accommodate a plethora of materials which are ‘out of scope’ for this repository. QUT Library saw this as an opportunity to use its repository infrastructure (software, technical know-how and policies) to develop and implement a metadata repository for its research datasets (QUT Research Data Finder), a repository for research-related software (QUT Software Finder) and to curate a number of digital collections of institutional and local community heritage materials (QUT Digital Collections). This poster describes the repositories and digital collections curated by QUT Library and outlines the value delivered to the institution, and the wider community, by these initiatives. |
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http://eprints.qut.edu.au/84626/1/PRE_OAI9_Poster_CallanRogers_20150602.pdf http://eprints.qut.edu.au/84626/7/LST_QUT_DigitalProjectChecklist_JR_PC_2015.pdf https://indico.cern.ch/event/332370/ Callan, Paula & Rogers, Jill (2015) Leveraging the repository infrastructure to curate institutional heritage materials, learning objects and data assets. In CERN Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication (OAI9), 17th -19th June, Geneva, Switzerland. (Unpublished) |
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QUT |
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Division of Technology, Information and Learning Support |
Palavras-Chave | #080700 LIBRARY AND INFORMATION STUDIES #080707 Organisation of Information and Knowledge Resources #open access #repositories #digital collections #preservation |
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Conference Item |