Enrich Project Final Report

The Enrich project was a 12 month JISC project funded as part of the Inf11 Programme (2009-11). It was conducted in partnership by the Library, Research and Enterprise and IT Services – with additional technical support from EPrints Services. This interdepartmental approach was critical to the success of the project and the repository’s long term sustainability as an institutional [not simply Library] service. At its heart, Enrich provided a clear focus for the integration and enhancement of the University of Glasgow’s repository, Enlighten with other institutional systems, including our Research System (for funder data) and our Data Vault (for staff records), lowering barriers to deposit and increasing the range of information held

Repository profile: University of Glasgow: "Enlighten" IR & Research System

The University of Glasgow has established the “Enlighten” IR and Research system. The IR holds 72,000 items for institutional peer-reviewed journal articles, published conference papers, books and book chapters.<p></p> The Research System is an in-house-built system holding research information for institutional research activity, including people, organisations, projects and outputs. It is dynamically linked to the Enlighten IR.<p></p&gt

On the road to Enlighten-ment: establishing an institutional repository service for the University of Glasgow

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to chart the development and growth of open access and institutional repositories at the University of Glasgow, Scotland from initial work in 2001 to the University's recently launched service, Enlighten. The University of Glasgow is a signatory to the Scottish Open Access Declaration and recently released a statement on Open Access.<p></p> Design/methodology/approach – The study will focus on the key lessons learned through a twin track approach of advocacy and service development during the DAEDALUS Project (2002-2005) and the transition of that work to a University service called Enlighten. This service includes a repository for published and peer-reviewed papers which has now had over 2 million hits and over 270,000 PDF downloads since it was established in February 2004.<p></p> Findings – The paper reveals the lessons learned by the Library and the project team. It also identifies the range of issues which must be addressed in the successful implementation of a repository and its transition to a production service. These include the development of content policies, copyright clearance and the cultural change necessary to populate a repository service. These challenges have and continue to be addressed by the repository team at the University of Glasgow.<p></p> Originality/value – This paper provides details of the lessons learned in the practical experience of setting up an institutional repository and ensuring its transition to a full and supported University service. It will be of particular interest to institutions implementing a repository or running a pilot service.<p></p&gt

Institutional initiatives towards open access

Intervention au 34e congrès LIBER qui s\u27est tenu à Groningue aux Pays-Pas du 6 au 9 juillet 2005. Tour d\u27horizon des stratégies de développement des archives ouvertes en Europe

Debt and Dividend Decisions: Stock vs. Non-stock Firms

This study tests the trade-off and pecking order theories about the debt and dividend decisions for stock and non-stock firms. The decision to finance investments with debt or equity determines the firm\u27s capital structure. The trade-off theory posits an optimal balance of debt and equity, motivating the form to use debt until its cost exceeds issuing equity thus deriving the firm\u27s optimal capital structure. Meanwhile, the pecking order theorem contends the firm should use internal funds first, then debt, and equity as a last resort. Both theories have the same fundamentals for the payout of dividends. More profitable firms with less risk and debt should pay our more dividends. Unlike previous work, this study examines both stock and non-stock firms. Capital credits or dividends are the accumulated profits (or retained earnings) the not-for-profit cooperatives payout to their owners who are also the firms\u27 customers. This study\u27s non-stock sample consists of over 800 rural electric cooperatives (RECs) while the stock companies sample includes 1700 firms followed by Value Line Investment Survey. For both samples, this study analyzes financial data using OLS regression to test the effects of selected financial variables on the debt and dividend decisions. Debt and dividend decisions for the non-stock firms support the trade-off hypothesis. For the stock firms analyzed in this study, the dividend decisions support the trade-off theory while the debt decisions follow the pecking order hypothesis

A Phenomenological Study of School Leaders Decision Making Process when Making Academic Program Placement Recommendations

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K12 Educational Leadership Training: Behind the Times with Instructional Leadership

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EPrints Funding Data and Workflow

This short paper provides details of the addition of new fields for funder and award data and the creation of a new Funding option in the deposit workflow

EPrints Funding Data and Workflow

This short paper provides details of the addition of new fields for funder and award data and the creation of a new Funding option in the deposit workflow

The relationship between fluid flow, structures, and depositional architecture in sedimentary rocks: An example-based overview

Fluid flow in the subsurface is fundamental in a variety of geological processes including volcanism, metamorphism, and mineral dissolution and precipitation. It is also of economic and societal significance given its relevance, for example, within groundwater and contaminant transport, hydrocarbon migration, and precipitation of ore-forming minerals. In this example-based overview, we use the distribution of iron oxide precipitates as a proxy for palaeofluid flow to investigate the relationship between fluid flow, geological structures, and depositional architecture in sedimentary rocks. We analyse and discuss a number of outcrop examples from sandstones and carbonate rocks in New Zealand, Malta, and Utah (USA), showing controls on fluid flow ranging from simple geological heterogeneities to more complex networks of structures. Based on our observations and review of a wide range of the published literature, we conclude that flow within structures and networks is primarily controlled by structure type (e.g., joint and deformation band), geometry (e.g., length and orientation), connectivity (i.e., number of connections in a network), kinematics (e.g., dilation and compaction), and interactions (e.g., relays and intersections) within the network. Additionally, host rock properties and depositional architecture represent important controls on flow and may interfere to create hybrid networks, which are networks of combined structural and stratal conduits for flow.publishedVersio