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Apr 9, 2018
Sustainable Practices for Populating Repositories
Repositories are a vital element of the scholarly communication infrastructure. However, the community needs to work hard to get the actual content.
This report descri
bes a number of profiles of sustainable practices for populating repositories. The practices described here are based on a review of repository activities around the world, and represent a variety of institutional and jurisdictional contexts.
The practices fall into three broad categories:
- Incentives: promoting the benefits of repositories through advocacy and metrics, as well as the adoption of policies/mandates that require deposit;
- Integration: amalgamating repository services with other institutional services like research information systems and research biographies;
- Mediation: implementing tools, workflows, and agreements that ease and simplify the deposit process.
The repository community was born out of an environment of cooperation, openness and innovation. The practices profiled here reflect these traditions and represent creative approaches to staffing, imaginative software developments, and adoption of novel policies.
Read the Report Here: http://www.coar-repositories.org/files/Sustainable-best-practices_final.pdf.
