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1. Repository overview2. Workflow3. Copyright4. Challenges5. Web ranking/statistics6. CSIR ResearchSpace7. Summary

� Institutional Repository: Management and dissemination of full text digital material created by the institution and its community members

� Bitstreams: Its digital data transmitted between systems, irrespective of format, e.g. the full text pdf file.

� Metadata: Metadata is structured information that describes, explains, locates, or otherwise makes it easier to retrieve, use, or manage an information resource.

� Benefit to the researcher ito visibility� Benefit to the organization ito visibility of core

business� Bridging the scientific gap◦ Awareness of research activities◦ Access to information

Pre-print:� first submitted

Post-print:� after peer-review

Final publisher version:� after publication (Vol. no, pages)

Sherpa/RoMEO (www.sherpa.ac.uk)

� Contains policies on self-archiving of journal articles

� The database covers over 18,000 journals� The RoMEO service uses a simple colour-code

to classify policies: green; blue, yellow, white� Detailed information on the use of

preprint/postprint/published pdf

� Common errors/challenges◦ Human element◦ ICT support� Outsourcing

◦ Invalid publisher’s url� Persistent identifier (DOI)

� Copyright issues◦ Publishers not allowing fulltext◦ Researchers discard previous versions◦ Abstract only as last resort

http://repositories.webometrics.info

� Metadata� Bitstreams� Provenance

http://researchspace.csir.co.za/