1. RSP Embedding Guide and Self Assessment Tool
Jackie Wickham
How embedded and integrated is your repository?
10th February 2012

2. Over the past few years, there have been a number of JISC funded projects and other institutional initiatives which have focused the embedding of research repositories into organisational systems and workflows. The results have been documented in websites, blogs, conference presentations etc but they had not been synthesised into a coherent whole.
This guide collates this learning and experience into a comprehensive and practical guide on how to embed a repository in an institution. It aims to help institutions get the best value from their research repositories by making sure they are an integral part of the systems, culture and processes – the message is don’t let your repository become a silo, link it in.

3. Why? Help in planning for the REF and reporting
Promoting the university’s research in a global context
Increasing engagement with businesses and the community
Widening access to the university’s research generally
Ie why is important that the repository is integrated from the institutional point of view
Promoting University’s research – the guide includes a video of Professor Steve Beaumont at Glasgow where he articulates this very well. This driver is of the highest importance to the university.

4. Launch December 2011
The guide was developed throughout 2011 with consultation and research among the HE community. It was launched in December – RSP blog, UKCoRR and JIC Repositories mail list. Also, a mail shot (by post) to Heads of Libraries, PVCs for Research and Research Managers.
Flyers are here if you want to take any away.
Uses WordPress as the content management system

5. Picked up across the world on blogs, facebook and Twitter – UK, Japan, Australia, Brazil.

6. Activity statistics – Dec/Jan
Embedding Guide
RSP site - total %
Visits
992
4307
23%
Page views
3071
13285
Visits direct to Embedding Guide
900
Visits via Home page 92
After the RSP Home Page, the Embedding Guide home page was the most popular page – this is usually the Software Survey followed by events pages..

7. Scenario 1 Repository as publications database
This scenario shows a situation where the repository fulfils the function of a central publications database as well as the function of storing, preserving and facilitating access to full research outputs (or linking to them, if the object is in another Open Access repository).

8. Case Study NECTAR – University of Northampton

9. Scenario 2 CRIS with linked repository
In this scenario, the repository acts as the store for actual publications or other research outputs, while the CRIS acts as the master database for research management and publications information, interacting with other internal and external systems, such as those of research funders.

10. Case Study University of Aberdeen

11. Scenario 3 CRIS with integral repository
This scenario describes a situation where:
An institution implements a CRIS with integrated repository functions from the start or
Phases out its repository when the CRIS has been modified to perform all the necessary processes currently fulfilled by the repository
This scenario has not currently been fully implemented in the UK, but there are indications that several institutions are either intending to implement it e.g. Dundee, or considering it in future. We are including it for that reason.

12. Case Study University of Dundee

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And that’s just the introduction. Going into the guide, there’s lots more.

14. Over the past few years, there have been a number of JISC funded projects and other institutional initiatives which have focused the embedding of research repositories into organisational systems and workflows. The results have been documented in websites, blogs, conference presentations etc but they had not been synthesised into a coherent whole.
This guide collates this learning and experience into a comprehensive and practical guide on how to embed a repository in an institution. It aims to help institutions get the best value from their research repositories by making sure they are an integral part of the systems, culture and processes – the message is don’t let your repository become a silo, link it in.