Enrich - Enhancement Strand
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Overview
The overall aim of the project is to improve the integration of Enlighten the University of Glasgow's institutional repository service with the institution's research system. We have recognised that the repository cannot play the range of roles expected by its users and institution if it continues to exist as a separate and disconnected data silo. This project will place the role of the repository as one which is a natural part of the research management cycle rather one which is a separate and disconnected activity. This work will be done in partnership with a range of academic departments and the University's Research and Enterprise Department.
This integration, in conjunction with the University's Publications Policy (2008) will enable us to demonstrate the range of benefits offered by the repository and to increase the rate of content (full text and metadata) deposited. These benefits will include usage statistics for access/downloads and staff profiles which will comprise of a range of data including publications. Enrich will provide a clear focus for the integration of the Repository and the Research System and enable the University to fulfil its publication policy, increase the rate of content deposited and support the overall aims of the Information Environment and this Programme Strand.
Objectives
This project's objectives are to:
- Establish Enlighten as a comprehensive University-wide repository which will also act as a central publications database (going back to 2001)
- Enhance the usability of Enlighten for depositors through linkage to the University's Research System by increasing the rate of deposit and the use of a single sign-on login
- Enhance the usability of Enlighten for administrators with tools which will enable them to effectively manage the deposit of content into the repository and identify any gaps in coverage or missing publications to provide comprehensive coverage
- Enhance access to the material in Enlighten through the repository by including it as part of the Library's 'vertical' search tool, Encore
- Develop clear policies and workflows with academic departments and Faculties to ensure a sustainable and ongoing flow of content into the repository
- Create staff profiles using data from core institutional systems including the publications lists from the repository, project information from the Research System and Human Resources data
- Ensure compliance with funders' open access grant and award policies by using the Research System to identify projects nearing completion and providing alerts to remind researchers of their publishing obligations; Improve publicity for, and dissemination of, research activity and outputs
- Deliver an agreed institutional preservation policy, which will be formulated in discussion with IRIScotland and the National Library of Scotland
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