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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.

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

International Open Access Discussion

• http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal

The Global Open Access List (GOAL) is the successor of the American Scientist Open Access (AmSci) Forum, which was the first Open Access Forum, begun in 1998 and hosted for 13 years (1998-2011) by Sigma Xi. http://amsci-forum.amsci.org/archives/American-Scientist-Open-Access-Forum.html

Open Access is no longer just an American or a Scientific Matter. It is a global movement with the goal of making all 2.5 million articles published annually in the planet's 25,000 peer-reviewed journals -- in all scholarly and scientific fields, and in all languages -- freely accessible online to anyone on the Web.

GOAL is accordingly dedicated to the discussion of Open Access practice and policy-making by the worldwide research community (in no order: researchers, universities, research institutions, research funding agencies, governmental research policy-makers and commercial entities) with the aim of enabling concrete, practical steps to be taken to achieve Open Access. Chief among these goals are techniques for increasing the amount of Open Access, as well as metrics of research usage and impact.

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 - University of Cape Town - reggie.raju@uct.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