Open Repositories 2012

THE Open Repositories conference (OR) took place in Edinburgh in July, and showcased five days of the best the repository world has to offer. This year’s conference attracted 460 delegates from more than 40 countries, and once again showed the passion and enthusiasm of the repository community

Report on the 'Unlocking Attitudes to Open Access' survey, May-July 2011

As part of a nationwide project to discover more about attitudes to open access the Warwick Research Archive Portal (WRAP) team hosted a survey to allow all members of the Warwick research community, both academics and postgraduate researchers, to contribute their viewpoints to a wider survey. The wider survey is being collated by the The Repositories Support Project (RSP) as part if their work for JISC in collaboration with the United Kingdom Council of Research Repositories (UKCoRR) and it is hoped will create a nationwide picture about the opinions of UK academics on issues such as open access, intellectual property and research archives. This report presents the findings of the 71 responses received by the WRAP team and includes a series of recommendations for future advocacy and developments of both WRAP and the University of Warwick Publications service

Developing the repository manager community

This paper describes activities which have taken place within the UK institutional repository (IR) sector focusing on developing a community of practice through the sharing of experiences and best practice. This includes work done by the UK Council of Research Repositories (UKCoRR) and other bodies, together with informal activities, such as sharing the experience of organising Open Access Week events. The paper also considers future work to be undertaken by UKCoRR to continue developing the community

Report on the ‘Gauging attitudes to open access (OA) and OA support’ survey

This report outlines the findings from the Gauging Attitudes to OA and OA Support Survey. The data collection took place during April-May 2014, and received 109 responses, primarily from Warwick Business School (WBS), Physics and Warwick Medical School (WMS). The findings suggest a good deal of support for the principles of OA, and indeed positive responses for University support provided for OA. There is a need to review funding options available to researchers for Gold OA, further develop APC payment processes, and certain areas of OA advocacy. The review needs are taken forward in the Recommendations section to be used by the Library for overall developmental work

Repositories at Warwick : a brand new start

This poster considers the results of a project undertaken by the E-Repositories Team at the University of Warwick; using a strategic marketing toolkit to brand and promote our institutional repository services. The toolkit allowed the team to analyse our services and target audience in a new light and using this knowledge develop messages for our target groups. These were distilled into our strapline, ‘highlight your research’, which was used at the centre of our campaign. Around this we developed a suite of marketing materials to be used in various ways to promote our repository; the branding has also been used on our EPrints installation and will be used on our revamped advice website. In the ten months (April 2011-Jan 2012) following the launch of the new brand we saw a 49.9% increase in the number of items made available in WRAP based on the deposits from the same period the previous year. The project has reinvigorated our advocacy and given us a set of documents we can now use in other projects. In addition it was a valuable team building exercise, using a wider range of skills than day-to-day tasks. There are definite benefits to undertaking this process regardless of the marketing budget

Data for Unlocking Attitudes to Open Access survey, May-July 2011

As part of a nationwide project to discover more about attitudes to open access the Warwick Research Archive Portal (WRAP) team hosted a survey to allow all members of the Warwick research community, both academics and postgraduate researchers, to contribute their viewpoints to a wider survey. The wider survey is being collated by the The Repositories Support Project (RSP) as part if their work for JISC in collaboration with the United Kingdom Council of Research Repositories (UKCoRR) and it is hoped will create a nationwide picture about the opinions of UK academics on issues such as open access, intellectual property and research archives. This dataset is the anonymized responses to the survey in their raw form