Repository masterclass @ ILI

The Internet Librarian International Conference in London, October 8-9 has a repository masterclass. Run by Frank Cervone of Northwestern University, USA it’s called ‘Repositories and Digital Initiatives’. The class is on the Sunday 7th October, before the conference. It looks very practical and the blurb says ‘through this step-by-step road map [...]

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Visit to Loughborough IR

Last Thursday I met up with Steph (from the Repositories Support Project) in Loughborough to check out the University of Loughborough Institutional Repository. Originally I’d contacted them after reading articles written by Jo Barwick and placed in the repository. We met with Jeff and Kate, who explained how they’ve set up their repository [...]

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Blogging

Over at the social networking site Ning there’s a Library 2.0 community. Brian Kelly from UKOLN has established a little group within this to gather thoughts and ideas for a Blogging Masterclass that we’re presenting at the Internet Librarian International conference in London, 7 October 2007. Brian has a phancy new phone with [...]

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Writing supporting information

I’m at the point of drafting information to support the deposit of items into our repository. There’s a lot of good documentation out there for existing repositories, which surprisingly makes it quite difficult – I’m going to have to shoot off some emails requesting permission for re-use or risk plagarising wildly.. One thing [...]

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Using a wiki to record progress

What did we do before we had wikis? I really don’t know – had multiple versions of the same document floating around in people’s email I suppose, or saved it on shared drives that required emails back and forward to IT services for access to save in. Or internal intranets with designated staff [...]

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Licenced to publish

Yesterday we met with two legal people from the University to discuss licences and legal requirements for outlining deposit agreements and the like. The discussion brought up points I hadn’t thought to consider, and also highlighted the need to provide information and education on Intellectual Property Rights, including copyright and the fine print for [...]

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Sharing

If the entertainment blogs are to be believed, the Britney Spears approach to sharing means splitting your half-finished lollypop with the new man in your life (I’m not linking to my sources – *this* is a quality blog..!).
I’m not sure generosity should extend that far, but the following is certainly a much better example of [...]

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Social bookmarking tools and repositories

Are there any institutional repositories out there that incorporate social bookmarking tools?
A strong advocacy claim for depositing material in a repository is that this increases access to the material and subsequently increases citation rates. If we’re to look at web citations, wouldn’t adding options to post to del.icio.us, Connotea, CiteULike, etc. on [...]

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Choosing repository software

WHAT DO WE WANT? *Immediate decisive action*
WHEN DO WE WANT IT? *Sometime quite soon I should think…*
It’s always the things you think are going to be straightforward that end up being riddled with detail and complexity. Choosing a software platform for the repository was a case in point.
It’s kind [...]

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Putting the story in repoSiTORY

Over on Brian Kelly’s blog I’ve written a guest post on developing and finding online communities.
Since starting as Research Publications Librarian, I’ve been trying to use the tools that I’ve become accustomed to using for my information – blogs, wikis, social bookmarking and networking sites, etc. Finding the Open Access communities [...]

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