Christmas reading

A few bits and bobs to read over the holiday season:
Developing an integrated institutional repository at Imperial College London by Afshari & Jones.
HEFCE Consultation on the assessment and funding of higher education research post-2008
Finally in the library, Weinberger’s Everything is Miscellaneous.
Or I may just swing by the Bath Central Library this afternoon and go on [...]

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Integrated repository

I’ve just read Richard Jones’ and Fereshteh Afshari’s research paper on their work developing an integrated repository at Imperial College in London. This is very much the direction we’re moving in, so it’s great to read about how they’ve developed their systems. They’re also DSpace users, with a personal information portal gathering [...]

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Repository Deposit Licence

I believe we’re on the tail end of getting our deposit licence ironed out. It’s been through numerous iterations – essentially it’s a document based on the Sherpa/AHDS recommended licence, that’s been across the desk of anyone who might possibly want to have a say in it.
I did post a message to the UKCoRR [...]

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Beagles

WordPress gives you a page on blog statistics, showing things like page visits, links followed to come in and out of your blog, and search engine terms used to find your blog. This is the kind of things I believe repository statistics show that is of interest to researchers – I know I [...]

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