For the record, last year we used the eprint archive in our school to
generate the returns for our Annual Research listing. We will be doing
the same again this year PLUS we will be using it to generate the
paperwork for our internal Research Assessment Exercise (a practise run
for the 5-yearly UK national assessment).
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~lac/archpol.html
We have had an official school policy in place for a while (and have
been collecting metadata for a longer period before that) and so our
experience won't be the same as yours, but I would be very glad to
compare notes
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Les Carr
School of Electronics and Computer Science,
University of Southampton
On 15 Jan 2004, at 13:15, Stevan Harnad wrote:
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Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 16:32:57 +1000
From: "Paula Callan, E-Print Archive Project Officer (QUT)"
<[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: University policy mandating self-archiving of research output
The need for institutional policies mandating self-archiving has been a
frequent topic on this forum.
At Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in Australia, this advice
was
taken on board during the planning stage for our eprint repository, QUT
ePrints which was launched a few week ago (see:
http://eprints.qut.edu.au ).
Tom Cochrane, QUT's Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Technology, Information and
Learning Support) developed a suitable policy proposal and took it
through
the University's committee system. The senior research community at the
university is well versed in the cost and access issues, and this
helped
the DVC to present the issue persuasively. Consequently, when the
Academic
Board of the University endorsed an eprint policy for QUT (effective
from
January 2004) it was on the recommendation of Research and Development
Committee. (see: http://www.qut.edu.au/admin/mopp/F/F_01_03.html )
The policy was developed in consultation with the major stakeholders so
that the University as a whole would own the policy. We now have a
clear
institutional mandate for self-archiving which will be backed up with
plenty of promotion, training and support.
As the QUT Eprint Archive Project Officer, I am currently
investigating how
the annual collection of QUT research output data (required for
mandatory
Government reporting) could be used to assist with populating the
archive,
or vice versa. I am keen to hear from peers at other institutions who
may
be doing something similar.
QUT ePrints is still in its infancy and most of our researchers have
yet to
return from vacation. However, the documents are starting to trickle
in
already so I am very optimistic.
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Paula Callan BA (UQ), GradDipLib&InfoSys (QUT), GCEd (Higher) (QUT)
E-print Archive Project Officer / Liaison Librarian
Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia
CRICOS No. 00213J
Email: [email protected] Ph: (07) 3864 4670 (Mon-Wed) (07) 3864
3795
(Thu-Fri)
http://eprints.qut.edu.au
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Les Carr
