To coincide with the start of Open Access week, EDINA (a JISC UK-national academic data centre based at the University of Edinburgh) is pleased to announce that the Depot has been opened up internationally. Building upon its initial role given to it by JISC, the Depot is now being opening up into a facility to support the Open Access agenda internationally.
The Depot (www.depot.edina.ac.uk)is an assured gateway to make research Open Access – we provide two main services:
1. a deposit service for researchers worldwide without an institutional repository in which to deposit their papers, articles, and book chapters (e-prints).
2. a re-direct service which alerts depositors to more appropriate local services if they exist.
The first time a researcher visits the Depot we will automatically check with OpenDOAR, the registry for open access repositories, to find a more appropriate local repository. If none exists then the author will be invited to deposit their research in the Depot. The Depot is OAI-compliant allowing deposited e-prints to be ‘harvested’ by search services, and other repositories, giving them instant global visibility.
For the present you can find the Depot at http://www.depot.edina.ac.uk/ but working with eIFL-OA we hope to provide a more international URL to denote its new role.
Warm regards, Theo (on behalf of the Depot team)
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Theo Andrew
Edinburgh University Library
& EDINA National Data Centre
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