Supporting UK Repositories; a Cohesive Strategy

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

Posters, Demos and Developer "How-To's"

Jisc is a UK organisation that from its inception over twenty years ago has worked at the forefront of technology to network universities and research through digital systems. Most recently Jisc has turned its focus onto institutional open access repositories in the UK which provide access to research papers and digital objects created within the Higher education system. Institutional repositories (IRs) are valuable tools in the current climate of open access to help solve issues of data and information management, tracking and research reporting. Jisc is now working with a number of partners through the Repository Shared Services Project (RSSP) to develop a cohesive range of services which would improve the efficiency and effectiveness of UK IRs, in terms of data flows between institutional repositories, subject repositories, publishers, gathering business intelligence such as usage statistics and easier ways to check on compliance to policies. The poster will illustrate the connectivity between and the functions of 3 SHERPA services, Repository Junction Broker, IRUS-UK, and CORE, and how they all contribute to a cohesive and holistic strategy for supporting a national repository network.