Increasing the full-text deposits in your institutional repository | Repositories Support Project

"The Repositories Support Project (RSP) Increasing the full-text deposits in your institutional repository event took place on Wednesday 12th June at Charing Cross Hotel ... There were seven excellent presentations in total that focused on: implementation of self-archiving in institutional repositories, deposit tools, and depositing workflow. Balviar Notay spoke about JISC’s focus on deposit projects. The key-note speaker was Les Carr, his presentation on full-text deposits in the current scholarly communications environment was very enthusiastic, entertaining and thought-provoking. Muriel Mewissen discussed RJ Broker, Steve Hitchcock’s presentation was on DepositMOre. John Norman’s presentation included a video showing how DURA works in practice. Richard Jones spoke about Sword, and Bo Middleton’s presentation covered RePOSIT.  The day culminated in a lively ‘break-out’ session where delegates worked in groups to discuss: 'What strategies are followed currently in your institution to increase deposits: technical, organizational and policy issues' – each group fed their responses back to the room, and these in general seemed to demonstrate common problems experienced by many repository managers, and therefore the solutions suggested could be usefully applied to many too, making this a worthwhile event. You can download all presentations and notes from the break-out sessions here. Delegates tweeted throughout the day and all twitter feeds are collected in storify. Overall, this was a useful informative day; delegates gave positive feedback praising both the event speakers and the event organizers."