UK RepositoryNet+
Acronym
UKRN+
Duration
Phase 1: August 2011 – January 2012
Phase 2: February 2012 – March 2013
Website
EDINA Contacts
- Terry Sloan: 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
News
EDINA is a JISC National Data Centre based at the University of Edinburgh
