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Step 3 - Employ Repository Management Personnel

The development and implementation of your open access policy and repository preservation plan should point to the fact that your organisation needs to assign the following persons to the project.

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• To be appointed permanently, repository librarians and a repository manager/director.
• To be consulted or appointed permanently, an experienced IT Ubuntu Linux system administrator for installation, optimisation and upgrades.
• To be consulted or appointed permanently, an experienced web 2.0 developer for website programming, customisation, and styling.

http://wiki.lib.sun.ac.za/index.php/SUNScholar/Capacity_Building

http://wiki.lib.sun.ac.za/index.php/SUNScholar/Repository

http://wiki.lib.sun.ac.za/index.php/SUNScholar/Repository_Information

http://wiki.lib.sun.ac.za/index.php/OpenCampus 

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Essential Reading (Only available online)

• 2014 - EC - INFRASTRUCTURES FOR OPEN DIGITAL SCIENCE
• 2014 - PRWEB - OPEN STANDARDS AND THE DIGITAL AGE
• 2014 - KN - A SCALABLE AND SUSTAINABLE APPROACH TO OPEN ACCESS PUBLISHING
• 2014 - WEF - STATE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY REPORT 2014
• 2014 - AKAMI - STATE OF THE INTERNET REPORT
• 2014 - COAR - TOWARD A SEAMLESS GLOBAL INFRASTRUCTURE FOR REPOSITORIES

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• 2013 - OSSWATCH - NATIONAL SOFTWARE SURVEY
• 2013 - DLIB - A VISION TOWARDS SCIENTIFIC COMMUNICATION INFRASTRUCTURES
• 2013 - IDRC - CONNECTING ICT TO DEVELOPMENT
• 2013 - MDPI - THE IMPORTANCE OF OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE AND STANDARDS IN MODERN SCIENTIFIC PUBLISHING
• 2013 - AAUPNET - LIBRARY AND UNIVERSITY PRESS COLLABORATION
• 2013 - A4AI - INTERNET AFFORDABILITY REPORT
• 2013 - DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNICATIONS - SOUTH AFRICA - BROADBAND POLICY

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• 2012 - BOAI - ON INFRASTRUCTURE AND SUSTAINABILITY

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• 2011 - LSE - TOTAL COST OF OWNERSHIP OF OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE

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• 2009 - UMINHO - DRIVER AND COAR - FROM INFRASTRUCTURE TO CONFEDERATION

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Infrastructure Support Groups / Communities of Practice

• A BRIEF INTRODUCTION TO COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_of_practice
• http://www.library.up.ac.za/eservice/johann.htm

http://openaccess.jiscinvolve.org

http://is4oa.org

http://aoasg.org.au

https://www.openaire.eu

http://www.libereurope.eu/committee/scholarly-research

https://www.coar-repositories.org/activities/repository-interoperability

http://www.arl.org/focus-areas/shared-access-research-ecosystem-share

http://chorusaccess.org

http://www.driver-community.eu

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