Gearing up for EthosNet – Electronic Thesis Online Service

It’s been a while since I looked at the EthosNet instructions on DSpace OAI Crosswalk plug-in. I’ve created a separate community within OPuS, our repository, and plan to use this for harvesting. I’ve added at least the basic metadata fields outlined so those are ready to go.
Now, I’m going out to the masses [...]

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Directing traffic to the repository

At our meeting yesterday, Mahendra from UKOLN raised a very good point about directing traffic to our repository. Considering that conversations about page ranking and Google keep cropping up, particularly with reference to linking to the publisher version of paper, this is an important way of directing traffic and raising our profile. Obviously I [...]

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Here to stay.

Well, some very good news – my job as Research Publications Librarian has been made a permanent position. This is pretty good news, and fairly unusual given the show of hands at the last UKCoRR meeting, where a lot of repositories are managed by people on secondments, fractional posts or even ‘leftover’ parts of [...]

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Quick introduction to repositories

I’ve just drafted a couple of papers for various meetings, and I’m also working on an FAQ page for the repository. My RSS feeds have just alerted me to this new publication by Charles Bailey – at first inspection it’s a good introduction especially for repos people at the coalface but I think I’ll [...]

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