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DAEDALUS - Freeing Research at the University of Glasgow

DAEDALUS was a project implemented at the University of Glasgow from August 2002 to July 2005, with a focus on advocacy and service development for open access research. The project aimed to gather and disseminate a range of research outputs, including papers, theses, and administrative documents. Strategies included raising awareness within departments, collaborating with other projects, and implementing Eprints and DSpace software. Visit the DAEDALUS website for more information.

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DAEDALUS - Freeing Research at the University of Glasgow

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  1. DAEDALUS -Freeing Research at theUniversity of Glasgow William J NixonService Development Susan AshworthAdvocacy

  2. DAEDALUS • 1st August 2002 – 31st July 2005 • Evolved from the implementation of our local eprints service • Two strands • Advocacy • Service Development • Partner with the CURL SHERPA Project

  3. Range of Collections • Published papers / ePrints • Pre-prints, grey literature, technical reports, working papers • Doctoral theses • Research Finding Aids • Administrative Documents • Search service

  4. Advocacy • Advocacy Remit • Our Strategies • Issues identified by academics The Major issues are NOT technical

  5. Advocacy Remit • to create an Open Access culture • to gather content for the range of Open Archives services • to provide advice on policy implications, guidelines and processes of the services • to formulate an exit strategy that ensures a full and fully used service

  6. Strategies at Glasgow • Project Board including an academic from each of three territorial subject groups • Contacting those academics who are already self-publishing • Taking over departmental publications databases (RAE)

  7. Strategies cont…. • Raising debate within departments - programme of attending departmental meetings • Regional meetings, possible subject based, in collaboration with other FAIR projects • Attempting to get strategic decisions at a high level within the University e.g. on submission of theses

  8. Service Development • Eprints Demonstrator • GNU Eprints v.2.0 • Full text papers and bib information • OpenURL links from the Catalogue • Initial install of E-theses software • Work ongoing with DSpace install

  9. Eprints screenshot

  10. Eprints record screenshot

  11. Eprints and catalogue

  12. ETD-db

  13. DAEDALUS DAEDALUS – Freeing Research at the University of Glasgow http://www.gla.ac.uk/daedalus

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