University of Southampton (04 Apr 2008)
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The University of Southampton is to make all its academic and
scientific research output freely available. A decision by the
University to provide core funding for its Institutional Repository
establishes it as a central part of its research infrastructure,
marking a new era for Open Access to academic research in the UK.
Until now, the databases used by universities to collect and
disseminate their research output have been funded on an
experimental basis by JISC (the Joint Information Systems
Committee). The University of Southampton is the first in the UK to
announce that it is transitioning its repository from the status of
an experiment to an integral part of the research infrastructure of
the institution. Southampton established its repository
(http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/) in 2002 as part of the JISC TARDis
project (Targeting Academic Research for Deposit and Disclosure),
to explore issues surrounding the Open Access paradigm. The
repository provides a publications database with full text,
multimedia and research data. The Southampton repository will now
become a service of the University Library in partnership with the
University's Information Systems Services and its School of
Electronics and Computer Science (who host the JISC-funded software
development team).
The University of Southampton will require
that all of its staff deposit,
wherever practicable, all of the outputs resulting from their research in the
"eprints@soton" institutional repository.
Staff will also be encouraged to provide,
wherever possible, open access to
these deposited research outputs in a manner that is consistent with the
policy of the publisher of the output.
Contributed by Harnad, Stevan (Professor of Cognitive Science University of Southampton)
| MANDATE TYPE: | Institutional Mandate |
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| REPOSITORY URL(s): | http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/, http://ecrystals.chem.soton.ac.uk/ |
| Depositing User: | Tim Brody |
| Date Deposited: | 04 Apr 2008 18:02 |
| Last Modified: | 28 Feb 2011 15:03 |
| URI: | http://roarmap.eprints.org/id/eprint/8 |
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