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Opus Launch part 2

Posted in Eprints, University of Bath, University of Bath OPuS, events, institutional repository on February 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Requisite snowman picture
Yesterday’s launch of Opus, our repository was held in the department of Mechanical Engineering’s e-lounge. This location itself deserves a mention – it’s a fantastic space for students, with study tables, slim SunRay computers, food dispenser machines, and to add some class, some beautiful artwork on the walls. We took over [...]

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Launch of the University of Bath research repository

Posted in Eprints, University of Bath, University of Bath OPuS, events, institutional repository on February 3, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Today saw the official launch of Opus, the University of Bath research repository (‘Opus’ being short for Online Publications Store). There is an internal news item on the uni website with a brief outline of events.
I am hoping this means the work will really begin, now that it has been officially put in the [...]

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REF avalanche of publications

Posted in Eprints, Research Excellence Framework, University of Bath OPuS, institutional repository on January 8, 2009 | 2 Comments »

For shame, for shame. The thing I hated most when researching on blogs in libraries: the abandoned blog. I think perhaps it’s been more of a dry spell really. A long time between drinks? A hiatus? And WordPress have moved everything around in here.
We spent the summer collecting and then [...]

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REF

Posted in Research Excellence Framework, University of Bath OPuS, institutional repository on July 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

We are one of twenty-two institutions in the UK who have been selected to participate in the Research Excellence Framework Pilot Exercise. This exercise will be looking at how well citation analysis, or bibliometrics measures up. I’m off to London next Wednesday to find out more at a HEFCE briefing, so will have [...]

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Training repository administrators

Posted in University of Bath, University of Bath OPuS, announcements, institutional repository, training on February 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I’ve been doing a number of training sessions lately, for a number of different, err, stakeholders in the repository. Today I have my first session with the five librarians that will be helping to administer the collections, and perform the mediation on deposits.
I’ve split the sessions up, ostensibly into three meetings over [...]

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Gearing up for EthosNet – Electronic Thesis Online Service

Posted in UKCoRR, University of Bath OPuS, institutional repository, tagged on January 24, 2008 | 1 Comment »

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

Posted in UKOLN, University of Bath, University of Bath OPuS, institutional repository, social software on January 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »

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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