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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Communities and deposit checklist

It’s the little things that sometimes take ages.. like deciding how to describe the communities and sub-communities for our repository installation. We’re a University, so the faculties and schools are easy enough, and I can put the research centres and institutes together but what about ‘the leftovers’? What is the collective noun for [...]

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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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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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