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The Bergen Open Research Archive (BORA) - An introduction. Elin Stangeland, May 2006. What is an institutional repository.
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The Bergen Open Research Archive (BORA) - An introduction Elin Stangeland, May 2006
What is an institutional repository “A university-based institutional repository is a set of services that a university offers to the members of its community for the management and dissemination of digital materials created by the institution and its community members. It is most essentially an organizational commitment to the stewardship of these digital materials, including long-term preservation where appropriate, as well as organization and access or distribution.”Clifford A. Lynch,"Institutional Repositories: Essential Infrastructure for Scholarship in the Digital Age"ARL, no. 226 (February 2003): 1-7. Enoma Workshop, May 2006
What is an institutional repository • Web-based database (archive) • Containing scholarly content • Institutionally defined • Cumulative and perpetual • Open and interoperable Enoma Workshop, May 2006
Advantages • The institutions research output is freely available • In one common interface • Increased visibility and impact for researchers and research groups • Efficient dissemination • Persistent identifiers to content • http://hdl.handle.net/1956/440 Enoma Workshop, May 2006
Bergen Open Research Archive (BORA) • Institutional archive for the University of Bergen • Launched in November 2004 • Mainly contains articles and theses, but also other material created by UiB academics • Part of the development of a national searching service, Norwegian Open Research Archives (NORA) Enoma Workshop, May 2006
BORA – for three institutions BORA was initially created to potentially include other institutions in the Bergen area Member institutions: • The University of Bergen • Norwegian School of Economics and Business administration (NHH) • Bergen University College (HiB) Enoma Workshop, May 2006
DSpace • Online publishing tool developed by Hewlett-Packard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) • Open source software • Platform for BORA • Appropriate content: • Articles and preprints • Technical reports • Working papers • Conference papers • E-theses • Datasets: statistical, geospatial, matlab, etc. • Images: visual, scientific, etc. • Audio files • Video files • Learning objects • Reformatted digital library collections Enoma Workshop, May 2006
BORA - screenshot Enoma Workshop, May 2006
Other repositories • Dspace@Cambridge • Open University Netherlands – DSpace service • University of Rochester - UR research
Questions? http://bora.uib.no http://ub.uio.no/nora Enoma Workshop, May 2006