Stimulating the Population of European Repositories results out (fwd)

From: Stevan Harnad <harnad_at_ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 11:52:22 +0000

                  ** Cross-Posted **

See also:
http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/349-guid.html
http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/350-guid.html

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Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 09:52:14 +0100
From: V.M. Proudman <v.m.proudman--uvt.nl>
Subject: Stimulating the Population of European Repositories results out

I was at the DRIVER Summit last week,
    http://www.driver-support.eu/multi/DRIVERSummit.php
and you have probably come across the DRIVER Study press release by now.
    http://www.driver-support.eu/multi/news.php?la=en

It gives me great pleasure to share the DRIVER publication results on
populating repositories with you!
All material is open access from this page.
    http://www.tilburguniversity.nl/services/lis/driver-population.html

...[Excerpt from Study, pasted here by SH:

        Critical Success Factors for populating repositories and services
        identified by six European good practices
        http://arno.uvt.nl/show.cgi?fid=68181

    2. Critical success factors specific to Institutional Repositories
        2.1 Policy issues

    ** Establish an institutional policy which mandates the deposit
    of academic output. This is the main factor for the successful
    population of an IR...

...end excerpt]

Vanessa Proudman
NEEO Project Manager
Tilburg University Library
Warandelaan 2
Postbus 90153
5000 LE Tilburg
tel: +31 - 13 - 466 2314
v.m.proudman--uvt.nl
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