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ePrints UK Workshops and Business Models

Philip Hunter

ePrints UK Project Manager

p.j.hunter@ukoln.ac.uk

A centre of expertise in digital information management

www.ukoln.ac.uk

                                                             

ePrints UK Workshops

• ePrints UK is a service provider which harvests from various data providers

• The viability of the service depends upon there being sufficient data providers in existence with sufficient records to supply the national database.

• Therefore ePrints UK needs to encourage institutions to set up eprint archives, and for authors to submit their papers to them.

• To do this ePrints UK needs to encourage awareness of the potential of institutional repositories and discussion of the barriers to participation

• Is the same true for ePrints.org software? • ePrints.org participated in all of the workshops

                                                             

ePrints UK Workshops: the Issues• Introducing a potential user audience to the basic

concepts• Promoting the advantages in take-up of the

technology (‘what’s in it for institutions and for libraries?)(‘what’s in it for the researcher?’)

• The technology involved• Discussion of implementation & experiences• Other issues which are important to the user (IPR,

author copyright, preservation)• The Funding background

                                                             

ePrints UK & ePrints.org: similar requirements?• The software needs its potential user audience to understand

the basic concepts of ePrints and the OAI PMH• ePrints.org needs advocates to promote the take-up of the

technology (‘what can the technology do for institutions and for libraries?)

• The user base needs to be able to make an informed decision between software options

• They need to know about ePrints.org’s existence as a choice• Need fora for discussion?• How does the software handle the issues which are important

to the user (IPR, author copyright, preservation), if not actually part of the ePrints concept?

• The Funding options