UK RepositoryNet+

Acronym

UKRN+

Duration

Phase 1: August 2011 – January 2012
Phase 2: February 2012 – March 2013

Website

UK RepositoryNet+

EDINA Contacts

• Donna Cruickshank: Project Manager
• Andrew Dorward: Business Manager

Summary

The aim is to create and foster shared infrastructure, both social and technical, that will enable deposit, curation and dissemination of research literature, in line with JISC advocacy for Open Access and visibility of research at universities, including preparation for the research excellence framework.

Project Deliverables

Phase 1:

• Project website and project plan
• Mapping the Repository Landscape
• Stakeholder analysis and engagement strategy
• Review tools and services needed for repository workflows as basis for catalogue of service components
• Agreed process for definition and funding of service components
• Technical infrastructure production environment
• Review checkpoint for Phase 2 activities.

Phase 2:

• Review of service components to meet community needs: shared service suite
• Partnership arrangements for components
• Service desk support for component services and customers
• Sustainability model(s)
• Extended technical infrastructure production environment
• Progress and final project reports.

Funders

JISC

Links

• EDINA
• JISC

News

• JISC announcement
• EDINA announcement
• Draft for Comment of ‘Mapping the Repository Landscape’ presented to Repository Fringe 2011