Peter Linde, Bottom(s) up to a Top down approach. Abstract: "It is comparatively easy to build and structure an institutional repository. The difficulty lies in filling it with content. This very trivial observation is not uncommon among repository administrators and I certainly agree. At Blekinge Institute of Technology (BTH) we have followed a Bottom up approach, which now, almost ten years later, hopefully will lead to a Top down policy. The two strategies complement each other and maybe a two-front approach can be part of an answer on how to get submissions going."
Eva Müller, Open Access, the next steps at Uppsala University. Abstract: "The insistence of the scientific community and the general public that publicly financed research should be widely and quickly accessible without barriers is known as the Open Access movement. This is supported by new technologies and new economic models which are helping to create a greater diversity of complementary possibilities for the dissemination of scholarly work."
Staffan Parnell and Ultuna Aina Svensson, Stick or carrot - how to fill an institutional repository. Abstract: "SLU (Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet – Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences) has four main campuses, situated in different parts of Sweden. SLU employs 3200 people and has ca. 3300 undergraduates and 800 postgraduate students. Roughly half the staff are concerned with teaching and research. The main subject areas are agriculture, forestry, veterinary medicine and environmental protection. About 150 doctoral and licentiate theses are produced annually in the postgraduate programmes and about 7-800 undergraduate theses in the undergraduate programmes."
Posted by
Peter Suber at 2/24/2006 01:34:00 PM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
