Current Research Information Systems

I made an enquiry to the UKCoRR mailing list asking whether anyway was using a CRIS in the UK. The replies were interesting, with a lot of interest in Symplectic. Only one reply from the list used InfoEd. The other options I asked about included PURE from Denmark, and the ProQuest Research [...]

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Top 100 Tools for Learning

This is a great list from the Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies – http://www.janeknight.com/downloads/top100S08.pdf

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DSpace installed against Oracle 10?

Apparently this isn’t as straightforward as the DSpace documentation might suggest, and further problems may arise when installing patches/plugins etc as most are designed with a PostgreSQL database in mind. This is a problem as it negates one of the main reasons for choosing DSpace, that of being able to use and feed back [...]

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Out and About

I’ve been neglecting the blog about lately as I’ve had my attention diverted elsewhere. This week has been taken up with the Internet Librarian International Conference in London. It seemed to be a well-recieved conference (apart from lots of muttering under the breath about the ridiculous cost of wifi – I mean, honestly, [...]

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Blogging about repositories

Yes, me going on about blogs again.. I’ll put these on Slideshare eventually, but as I’m working through my ILI presentation I’m focusing on why I’ve got a blog about setting up our repository (although most of these posts lately are about blogs and conferences, sorry..)
So why blog about my repository experiences – here’s a [...]

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User generated content – comments, reviews, etc..

We’ve recently launched a small collection of book records on the library catalogue that offer library users to add comments, reviews and recommendations. Our clever systems librarian Laurence has hooked up the collection to a wiki, where users can leave comments which are then fed back into the catalogue.
We did a lot [...]

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Collecting statistics on repository use

I’ve noticed that Brunel do a very nice job of presenting statistics on the use of their repository and it’s contents. As a browser on the site, I find myself reading through to see which departments have deposited the most, who’s article is getting the most interest,etc.. They’ve got the Top 50 authors and [...]

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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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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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