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Friday, June 02, 2006

New questionnaires from the VERSIONS project

The JISC VERSIONS Project has launched a pair of new questionnaires. From the announcement:
Do you wish to influence the development of version identification systems in university-managed open access collections? The VERSIONS Project is investigating current attitudes and practice relating to version identification in digital repositories and open access research paper collections. We invite you to participate in our user requirements study via one or both of our online questionnaires...

For experts and stakeholders (library and repository communities, and other interested parties): 'Identifying versions of academic papers in institutional repositories'

For academic and research staff and students: 'Versions of academic papers online - the experience of authors and readers'