RePosit: JISC Final Report

The RePosit Project was funded under JISC funding call 2/10 – under the Deposit of Research Outputs strand. The purpose of the call was to fund projects which would ensure "take-up of solutions that enable and encourage author deposit of Open Access research outputs into repositories by embedding deposit into research or related practice.‟ The RePosit Project partners were all in the process of introducing a Research Information System (RIS) integrated with an institutional repository – and the purpose of the Project was to explore whether use of the RIS could increase the number of full-text deposits in a repository. Different partners were at different stages of this integration, had different repository infrastructure and/or were at different stages of repository implementation/take-up. All partners were introducing Symplectic Elements as their RIS – perhaps better described as a researcher-facing publications management system. Our intention was to understand the effectiveness of using a RIS as the primary user interface to the institutional repository by: gathering user feedback; compiling a commentary on the issues surrounding repository/RIS integration; considering strategies for increasing uptake of repository deposit; and producing materials to support these strategies. A key part of the Project was to engage with a wider community – institutions that were using other RIS software in order to develop a sustainable discussion within and across the repository and research manager communities – in order to consider the applicability of lessons learned.