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The information explosion

Repository Research

• Open Society Guide to Repository Software
• Institutional Repositories: Essential Infrastructure for Scholarship in the Digital Age - ARL - Clifford A. Lynch - 2003
• Creating an Institutional Repository: LEADIRS Workbook - Barton & Waters - 2004
• Institutional Repository Deployment in the United States as of Early 2005 - CNI - Joan K. Lippincott - 2005
• Federal Research Public Access Act - Research by: http://www.nagps.org - 2008
• Development and implementation of an institutional repository within a science, engineering and technology environment - CSIR - van der Merwe, A - 2008
• Open Access and how it affects your citations - University of Pretoria - Kuhn, Johanna - 2012

Repository Examples

Below are links to repositories that have started to take a system approach to repository management by supplying a help wiki and a news blog. In addition they have short clean memorable URL's. Unfortunately policies have yet to be published.

• http://scholar.sun.ac.za - Wiki and blog. Registered with harvesters.
• http://uir.unisa.ac.za - Blog, no wiki and registered with harvesters.
• http://cadmus.eui.eu - Fantastic XMLUI style etc...
• http://repository.uneca.org - Wiki and blog. Not registered with harvesters.
• http://hub.hku.hk - Unique researcher profiles

Below are links to repositories used for digital collections.

• http://digital.lib.sun.ac.za
• http://digital.unam.na

Repository Support

African DSpace Support

• http://lists.lib.sun.ac.za/mailman/listinfo/irtalk
• http://lists.lib.sun.ac.za/pipermail/irtalk

This is a discussion list to discuss, communicate, share information on all open access and institutional repositories related issues in Africa and South Africa.

• http://lists.lib.sun.ac.za/mailman/listinfo/sasyl

A discussion and help mailing list for South African Systems Librarians. (SASYL)

International DSpace Support

Before posting a request, please see: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Mailing+List+Etiquette first.

• DSpace General
• DSpace Technical
• DSpace Change Log

Documentation

• http://www.gray-area.co.za
• http://www.rsp.ac.uk/help/publications
• http://www.openaire.eu/en/support/faq
• http://digitalcommons.bepress.com/repository-research
• http://www.coar-repositories.org/working-groups/repository-and-repository-networks-support-and-training/resources
• http://www.coar-repositories.org/activities/support-and-training/resources/
• http://www.jiscinfonet.ac.uk/infokits/repositories

Consultants

• http://www.duraspace.org/service_providers
• http://www.lyncode.com - Repository Styling
• http://www.gstudio.co.za - Repository Styling
• http://www.jumpingbean.co.za - Java webapps
• http://atmire.com - Full range of repository DSpace software services

Repository Policy

• Dr Reggie Raju - Stellenbosch University - rraju@sun.ac.za
• Michelle Willmers - University of Cape Town - michelle.willmers@uct.ac.za
• Elsabe Olivier - University of Pretoria - elsabe.olivier@up.ac.za

Repository Management

• Ina Smith - Stellenbosch University - ismith@sun.ac.za
• Hettie Groenewald - University of Pretoria - hettie.groenewald@up.ac.za
• Allison Fullard - University of the Western Cape - afullard@uwc.ac.za
• Denise Nicholson - University of the Witwatersrand - denise.nicholson@wits.ac.za
• Ansie van der Westhuizen - University of South Africa - Watkiapj@unisa.ac.za
• Lazarus Matizirofa - University of Johannesburg - lmatizirofa@uj.ac.za

Repository Librarians

• Paulette Talliard - Stellenbosch University - plt@sun.ac.za
• Ricardo Davids - Stellenbosch University - rddavids@sun.ac.za

Repository Systems Administrators

• Hilton Gibson - hilton.gibson@gmail.com
• Bravismore Mumanyi - bravismore@unam.na
• Lighton Phiri - lighton.phiri@gmail.com
• Lewatle Phaladi - Lewatle.Phaladi@wits.ac.za
• Barrie Swanepoel - barries@uj.ac.za
• Sean Carte - sean.carte@gmail.com
• Solomon Kapfunde - skapfunde@uwc.ac.za
• Thato Mahlatji - t.tmahlatji@gmail.com
• Sakhi Louw - selouw@uwc.ac.za
• Darryn Francesco - darryn.francesco@gmail.com

Stellenbosch University Library Systems

The above guidelines were used to build the following systems:

• http://scholar.sun.ac.za
• http://www.journals.ac.za
• http://conferences.sun.ac.za
• http://digital.lib.sun.ac.za
• http://ar1.sun.ac.za
• http://aj1.sun.ac.za