Jisc: Building a Cohesive Repository Shared Services Infrastructure for the UK

Panel at Open Repositories 2014, Helsinki, Finland, June 9-13, 2014

General Track Papers and Panels

The session was recorded and is <a href="https://connectpro.helsinki.fi/p9u46fj5omv/">available for watching</a>

Over the past few years, Jisc has worked with a number of partners, including the University of Nottingham (Sherpa Services), EDINA, Mimas and the Open University (Knowledge Media Institute) to develop a range of services that benefit UK research by making institutional repositories more efficient and effective in support of open access. Jisc has funded the Repository Shared Services Project (RSSP) to bring key repository shared services onto a more sustainable footing, including financial, organisational and technical aspects of their operation. In particular these shared services are focused on supporting data flows between repositories, subject repositories, publishers and also how to improve business intelligence services to support funder and management reporting. A cohesive and holistic service approach is required to support data flows and the ability to provide business intelligence. These service functions include deposit facilities, registries, aggregations, easier ways to check on compliance to policies, ways to check on reliable local and national usage of content in repositories and interventions to apply consistency to metadata and vocabularies across scholarly systems. This session will present and discuss the barriers, challenges, successes and opportunities of building a cohesive and holistic repository shared services infrastructure to support open access.