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Widening access to institutional assets: what are the practical implications?

Widening access to institutional assets: what are the practical implications?. JISC Conference 23 rd March 2004. The JISC FAIR Programme. Chris Awre FAIR Programme Manager. The FAIR Programme. Focus on Access to Institutional Resources £2 million investment 14 projects

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Widening access to institutional assets: what are the practical implications?

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  1. Widening access to institutional assets: what are the practical implications? JISC Conference 23rd March 2004

  2. The JISC FAIR Programme Chris Awre FAIR Programme Manager

  3. The FAIR Programme • Focus on Access to Institutional Resources • £2 million investment • 14 projects • August 2002 – October 2005 • FAIR Advisory Board (FAB!) • Community representation • http://www.jisc.ac.uk/programme_fair.html

  4. FAIR Objectives • Investigate the deposit and disclosure of institutional assets • Increase understanding of processes • Technical • Organisational • Cultural • Contribute towards mechanisms and supporting services to allow the submission and sharing of content

  5. The FAIR Projects • The 14 projects are split into 3 clusters • e-prints and e-theses (eFAIR – 8 projects) • Museums and Images (4 projects) • Institutional Portals (2 projects) • Projects are lasting from 1 year to 3 years • Cover both HE and FE • Involve >40 institutions across the UK

  6. Key projects • eFAIR • DAEDALUS • SHERPA • Theses Alive! • Electronic Theses • HaIRST • TARDis • Institutional Portals • FAIR Enough

  7. The Open Archives Initiative • FAIR is inspired by the vision of the Open Archives Initiative (OAI) • Sharing digital resources based on a simple mechanism allowing metadata about those resources to be harvested into services • OAI has its roots in an effort to enhance access to e-print archives as a means of increasing the availability of scholarly communication. • now used in many fields, e.g., learning materials, images, museum content

  8. Institutional Repository Software • eprints.org • widely used (127 known archives) • used within 5 FAIR projects • DSpace • used within 3 FAIR projects • DSpace@Cambridge • Theses Alive! has written add-on • Guide to Institutional Repository Software from OSI • http://www.soros.org/openaccess

  9. Thank you Chris Awre FAIR Programme Manager c.awre@jisc.ac.uk

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