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Welcome to the Embed Project.
The concept of Institutional Repositories is still relatively new and almost all the repositories established to date in Higher Educational Institutions are struggling to achieve a critical mass of content.
Currently there are two models (not mutually exclusive) for increasing content:
- through self-archiving
- or via a mediated service (often provided by the Library).
Advocates of self-archiving argue that this is the best way of achieving the necessary buy-in to ensure that repositories are embedded in research, teaching and learning processes. However, in contrast to the use of departmental or personal pages, self-archiving at the end of the article-preparation process is perceived as adding to the workload of researchers and/or their administrative nominees, and this could be one of a number of disincentives which are slowing the growth of repository content.
The aim of the Embed project is to increase understanding of how repositories can be used to support research and learning, integrating them fully into academic processes.
Events attended
- SPARC Innovation Fair, 17th-18th November 2008, Baltimore, Maryland
- UKSG – Mandating and the scholarly journal article: attracting interest on deposits?, 29th October 2008, London
- JISC Rights and Repositories Meeting, 5th September 2008, London
- ETD 2008: Spreading the Light, 4th-7th June 2008, at the Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, Scotland
- Beyond the RAE 2008: Bibliometrics, League Tables and the REF, 30th April 2008, King's College London
- Open Repositories 2008 the Third International Conference on Open Repositories, April 2nd & 4th, 2008 in Southampton, UK.
- Cranfield CERES Case History paper given at conference
- RSP Professional Briefing & Networking Event Phase II British Library, St Pancras, London, 21st January 2008
- JISC Repositories and Preservation Programme Meeting. Holland Hotel, Bristol, 27th & 28th November 2007
- RSP Professional Briefing Day University of Northampton, Thursday 15th November 2007
- RSP DSpace Technical Day University of Bath, Monday 12th November 2007
- JISC Repositories & Preservation Programme Meeting The Hatton, London, 4th & 5th July 2007
- Top 3 concerns
- Group work write-up
- Round robin discussion, Jackie Knowles, Repository Support Officer, RSP
Honourable mentions and WWW links to Embed
- JISC Information Environment Team blog
- The Thoughts of a Code Gorilla
- WRAP Repository Blog - Muddying the Waters
Deliverables
Embed Project Final Reports
- Embed Project Final Report (875KB, MIME type: application/pdf)
- Embed Final User Study Report (262KB, MIME type: application/pdf)
Work package 1
- EMBED Research Community Requirements Study (Final) (185KB, MIME type: application/msword)
Work package 2
- Reflections and Lessons from Making Audio and Video Interviews (24KB, MIME type: application/pdf)
Work package 5: Marketing and dissemination
- 'Show Your True Colours' poster 4 (122KB, MIME type: application/pdf)
- 'Show Your True Colours' postcard 4 (330KB, MIME type: application/pdf)
- CERES Advocacy Poster high resolution jpeg version (3508x2482, 3678 KB)
- 'Show Your True Colours' poster 3 (135KB, MIME type: application/pdf)
- 'Show Your True Colours' postcard 3 (151KB, MIME type: application/pdf)
- Cranfield University hosted JISC-sponsored meeting 'Understanding Organisational Cultures: Impact on Repository Growth and Development' on September 9th 2008
- 'Maintaining our distinctive research edge: the role we all have to play' (183KB, MIME type: application/pdf) an article in Perspectives
- 'Widening access to research' poster (736KB, MIME type: application/pdf)
- 'Show Your True Colours' poster 2 (119KB, MIME type: application/pdf)
- 'Show Your True Colours' postcard 2 (143KB, MIME type: application/pdf)
- 'Show Your True Colours' posters (515KB, MIME type: application/pdf)
- 'Show Your True Colours' postcards (158KB, MIME type: application/pdf)
- 'Raising your research profile' poster (1046KB, MIME type: application/pdf)
- ETD 2008, Aberdeen poster (598KB, MIME type: application/pdf)
Embed is funded by the JISC under the Repositories and preservation programme.
