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If you’d like further information about our integration work or Open Up! email me: Evans So Symplectic will continue to be a focus of advocacy work but through Open Up! rather than RePosit, which will soon come to an end. We’re aiming for much closer integration of our repositories and deposit procedures, particularly the linking of research publications with the underlying primary research data. We will have a full time advocacy officer for 12 months, picking up from and building on RePosit advocacy work. The new project, called Open Up! for the moment, will start in October and will, amongst other activities, look at embedding use of repositories in the research lifecycle. Some good news – we were successful in our recent bid to the JISC for funds to continue our pilot research data management project.

We’ll still be doing general awareness-raising, however, and will follow up with our own OA week when the integration’s been completed. We’re also aware of a number of publications collections around the University that are, with a little copyright checking, ready to be uploaded.Īdvocacy planning is ongoing but we’ve had to scale back some of the activities planned for Open Access Week as it’s unlikely Repository Tools will be working by then. For example, some funds have been put aside for a postgraduate to deposit the top four ‘favourites’ for all researchers participating in the REF in ERIC via Symplectic.

We’re looking at ways of getting publications into ERIC quickly as soon as Repository Tools goes live. We’re still not sure when we’ll be in a position to go live but we’re moving nearer to that point! Crosswalks and collection mapping have also been tested extensively and we’re now working our way through the list of identified issues. Testing has been going on for a few weeks, initially with the Engineering department, which has produced some very useful feedback. We’ve made significant progress, for example Repository Tools 1.3 has now been installed but we’ve also hit a number of unexpected technical hitches that have held things up a little. Work on integration is continuing at Exeter.

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