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Repositories for research: Southampton's evolving role in the knowledge cycle

Pauline Simpson (National Oceanography Centre, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK)
Jessie Hey (University of Southampton Libraries and School of Electronic and Computer Sciences, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK)

Program: electronic library and information systems

ISSN: 0033-0337

Article publication date: 1 July 2006

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Abstract

Purpose

To provide an overview of how open access (OA) repositories have grown to take a premier place in the e‐research knowledge cycle and offer Southampton's route from project to sustainable institutional repository.

Design/methodology/approach

The evolution of institutional repositories and OA is outlined raising questions of multiplicity of repository choice for the researcher. A case study of the University of Southampton research repository (e‐Prints Soton) route to sustainability is explored with a description of a new project that will contribute to e‐research by linking text and data.

Findings

A model for IR sustainability.

Originality/value

The TARDis project was one of the first IRs to achieve central university funding in the UK. Combined with increased visibility and citation, the research assessment exercise route has become the “hook” on which a number of IRs are basing their business models.

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Citation

Simpson, P. and Hey, J. (2006), "Repositories for research: Southampton's evolving role in the knowledge cycle", Program: electronic library and information systems, Vol. 40 No. 3, pp. 224-231. https://doi.org/10.1108/00330330610681303

Publisher

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Emerald Group Publishing Limited

Copyright © 2006, Emerald Group Publishing Limited

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